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PlanetGazer8350
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Having a cylindrical iron container with wall thickness of 20 cm, and a total weight of 500 tons when filled with its cargo, how would you be able to calculate its required voltage and current input in a vertical railgun system (relative to the Moon's surface), with an exit acceleration of 2km/s², for example? The gravitational acceleration would be 1.65km/s², pulling the cylinder due to its gravity. It should then, at an specific height, for example, 300km, meet with another spacecraft (in an elliptical orbit), just before its aphelion, with the cylinder and spacecraft having a very near velocity. Exactly what exit acceleration should be required for the cylinder to be able to reach the 300kms of height, when it is already starting to decelerate, for it to be captured by that spacecraft (the previous 2km/s² being just an example for that situation)?