Re: SPACE: Mars in 3 weeks

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 08:24:42 MDT


On Tue, 14 May 2002, spike66 wrote:

> Recall that Isp expressed in newton-seconds per kg.

"Recall"? I doubt that Isp was discussed in my high school
physics class.

> Robert do get out of the sloppy habit of using seconds as a unit
> of specific thrust.

Well, I think I've read either papers from JBIS or perhaps Mallove's
"The Starflight Handbook" that always used seconds.

Or am I simply mis-remembering things?

Robert



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