Reply to post: Re: "... and the months and years tick by"

NASA tried turning lost spacecraft STEREO-B off and on again... but it didn't work. True story

butigy
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Re: "... and the months and years tick by"

Sorry but I can't resist commenting. Simple physics peeps. Gravitational force is GM1M2/distance squared where G is a constant and M1 and M2 are the masses in question. Since F = ma then if you put this through the wringer what you get is, as demonstrated by NASA on the moon, a feather falls as fast as a rock. So your space station's acceleration towards the sun due to gravity would be the same as earths given the same distance from it.

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