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How do you know that, without knowing the non-booster-assisted deceleration rate of the spaceship? (Presumably the hypothetical ship separated from the booster
by semi-extrinsic 9y ago
How do you know that, without knowing the non-booster-assisted deceleration rate of the spaceship? (Presumably the hypothetical ship separated from the booster when that was out of fuel, and then the ship continued decelerating on its own to get to a velocity congruent with a stable orbit in our system).
- valuearb 9y agoThe object is traveling at 26Km/sec, earth is orbiting at 30 Km/sec. To generate a "stable orbit" is a matter of maneuvering at that velocity. So it's really unlikely that the parent ship is traveling much slower than the discarded booster, and so it's arrival is unlikely to be much later.