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adastra22
on May 23, 2023
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The damage to lunar orbiting spacecraft caused by ...
It’s a combination of the moon’s orbital velocity being low and the exhaust velocity being high.
LorenPechtel
on May 24, 2023
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I'm still surprised that it can impart that much velocity, though.
adastra22
on May 25, 2023
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Well is it not intuitive that something being blown by a moving fluid approaches speeds equal to the speed of the fluid?
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