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michaeltherobot Seniorius Lurkius et Subscriptor
NOV 22, 2021 2:05 PM
Printzer wrote:
My back-of-the-envelope math shows Minotaur IV having a TWR of ~2.6 at liftoff. And to be fair, those things scoot when they head out.
Which means it rises as fast as if it were falling in 1.6x Earth gravity! TWR was always an abstract number to me until I learned to subtract 1 to imagine the gravity under which it is falling upside down