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High Speed Propulsion - KTH

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What velocities?<br />

Isaac Newton:<br />

Law of gravity 1687<br />

g<br />

=<br />

R<br />

g R<br />

2<br />

0<br />

0 2<br />

Perigee<br />

Apogee<br />

V<br />

= 2gR<br />

11200 m/s<br />

to leave earth.<br />

Hyperbolic velocity.<br />

V0<br />

=<br />

gR<br />

Circular velocity 7900 m/s.<br />

Mach 26.<br />

mg<br />

mV 2 /R

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