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The Salyut 3 space station had an aircraft gun mounted for defense in orbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_3#On-board_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by st_goliath 7y ago
The Salyut 3 space station had an aircraft gun mounted for defense in orbit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_3#On-board_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salyut_3#On-board_gun
- kitd 7y agoInteresting. Would something like that have had an effect on the velocity of the spacecraft?
- oliveshell 7y agoAbsolutely! But nothing that couldn’t be corrected with station-keeping thrusters.
- rhinoceraptor 7y agoIf my math is right, you'd need to fire the gun 60 times to change the velocity by one meter per second.