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enkid
on July 23, 2020
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UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in s...
What if you used an object in another orbit to fire a projectile? Wouldn't that make the differences in energies pretty significant?
knodi123
on July 24, 2020
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I did suggest "have your gun-sat in an opposite-direction orbit to the target". Yes, that would dramatically increase the kinetic energy.
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