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Nope. 1 gram spacecraft, 20kg of thrust. Glass is tough. A 1 gram flat chip of glass with about 6cm2 of area (the proposed “spaceship” design) would withstan
by K0balt 3y ago
Nope. 1 gram spacecraft, 20kg of thrust. Glass is tough.
A 1 gram flat chip of glass with about 6cm2 of area (the proposed “spaceship” design) would withstand even more than steel by nearly a factor of two.
People are freaking out about 20,000g, but you could push a flat disk of glass like that at about 60,000,000g before it failed. Good Glass has a compressive strength of about 1000 megapascals.