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... the escape from a planet's own gravitational field — something which has to be done in the first thousand miles or so of the voyage — than in the journey from orbit to orbit , which may cover a distance ten thousand times as great .
... the escape from a planet's own gravitational field — something which has to be done in the first thousand miles or so of the voyage — than in the journey from orbit to orbit , which may cover a distance ten thousand times as great .
Pagina 82
To take a simple case , suppose the spaceship were near the Earth and a terrestrial station were sending out a series of “ pips ” at regular intervals — say at the rate of a thousand a second . Then if the ship were travelling towards ...
To take a simple case , suppose the spaceship were near the Earth and a terrestrial station were sending out a series of “ pips ” at regular intervals — say at the rate of a thousand a second . Then if the ship were travelling towards ...
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Although so many thousands of them exist , they cannot constitute a " menace to navigation ” , as has sometimes been suggested . The gulf between Mars and Jupiter is too enormous for a few thousand , or even a few million , asteroids to ...
Although so many thousands of them exist , they cannot constitute a " menace to navigation ” , as has sometimes been suggested . The gulf between Mars and Jupiter is too enormous for a few thousand , or even a few million , asteroids to ...
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