
Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th Edition)
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Chapter 8, Problem 6RQ
The European Space Agency launched a probe called Rosetta in March 2004. In August 2014, Rosetta reached its destination: a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta is the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet.
The Rosetta has a launch mass on Earth of 3000 kilograms [kg]. In order to escape Earth’s gravity, the spacecraft must accelerate at a rate of 25,000 miles per hour squared [mi/h2]. How much thrust, in units of newtons [N], must the engines provide to reach this acceleration.
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