Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th Edition)
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Chapter 8, Problem 7RQ
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. It contained a lander craft, called Philae.
The Rosetta has a launch mass on Earth of 3000 kilograms [kg] and the Philae has a launch mass of 220 pound-mass [lbm]. In order to escape Earth’s gravity, the combined 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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