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abhaybakshi
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Hello All,
Consider below scenario.
Suppose there is a small asteroid in space rotating around itself. I reach to that asteroid in my spacecraft and match spacecraft 's orbital speed with the rotation speed of the asteroid.
I eject my fancy carbon fiber net from my spacecraft which is sufficiently large to wrap asteroid.
Now, since I have captured the asteroid in my net, I want to bring it back to earth.
So my question -
1. If I want to "tow" that asteroid using my spacecraft , with how much force my spacecraft engine needs to "pull" the asteroid. In space there is nothing like weight. I guess the force required to "move" the asteroid should be slightly more than the gravitational pull that asteroid exerts on spacecraft .
Am I right ?
...Thanks.
Consider below scenario.
Suppose there is a small asteroid in space rotating around itself. I reach to that asteroid in my spacecraft and match spacecraft 's orbital speed with the rotation speed of the asteroid.
I eject my fancy carbon fiber net from my spacecraft which is sufficiently large to wrap asteroid.
Now, since I have captured the asteroid in my net, I want to bring it back to earth.
So my question -
1. If I want to "tow" that asteroid using my spacecraft , with how much force my spacecraft engine needs to "pull" the asteroid. In space there is nothing like weight. I guess the force required to "move" the asteroid should be slightly more than the gravitational pull that asteroid exerts on spacecraft .
Am I right ?
...Thanks.