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But if you're in an inflatable you're no longer in a vacuum so you'll have air friction to deal with (and thus constant propulsion) right?
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
But if you're in an inflatable you're no longer in a vacuum so you'll have air friction to deal with (and thus constant propulsion) right?
- rbanffy 5y agoYou'll need an electric motor to spin the centrifuge and a flywheel to store the momentum so the station doesn't rotate. Ideally, it'd be two separate motors and a clutch between them that acts in a catastrophic failure to prevent the whole station from rotating itself.