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How would one dock with a rapidly spinning spaceship?
by jimkleiber 5y ago
How would one dock with a rapidly spinning spaceship?
- whoisburbansky 5y agoOne would dock to the axis of rotation, I would think, spinning up your spaceship to match station spin?
- jimkleiber 5y agoAh, from my layman's perspective that seems to makes sense. A spinning top has an axis that doesn't move, so dock there, but if the people are to enter, the docking ship needs to spin at the same speed or they'll feel the difference immediately. Thank you!
- HPsquared 5y agoThe docking port would need to be coaxial with the axis of rotation.
- nofunphil 5y agoa docking station at the central point that the ship rotates around
- T-A 5y agoElegantly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZoSYsNADtY or heroically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lcGnMhvsA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lcGnMhvsA