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If the ship is decelerating, then the second stage moves slower than the first stage. But even if this was true, the second stage would already be here. As th
by JPLeRouzic 9y ago
If the ship is decelerating, then the second stage moves slower than the first stage.
But even if this was true, the second stage would already be here.
As the first stage goes at tens of kilometers per second and as we did not detected the second stage it is probably at more than a AU, so it will need more than a million seconds to reach earth, only more than 11 days, actually.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> If the ship is decelerating, then the second stage moves slower than the first stage. Only if you fire the next stage. Otherwise there will be only what little velocity difference was created by detachment itself. > But even if this was true, the second stage would already be here. Not if it was used to decelerate further :).