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Old July 13th 05, 02:22 PM
Jim Oberg
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The Progress engine has a 440 lb thrust, as I recall,
and the station weighs about 140 tons. What accel do you calculate?



"GD" wrote
So what kind of g-forces does the station get when this happens?
I'm assuming here that it could only stand a fraction of 1 g, yes?