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Orbital equations in polar coordinates
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Tianwen 1 Mission Live Streaming URLs
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A jet engine's shaft is neutral in the direction of thrust?
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Do Overlapping Feathers on Swifts Offer Insights for Aircraft Design?
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Single and Dual-Rotating Propeller Question
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NASA Why isn't NASA using artificial gravity for manned space travel?
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How Do Ramjets Generate Thrust with a Hollow Tube Design?
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Best aerodynamics video lectures
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DV Calculation clarification (rocket booster)
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Propeller thrust with backwards air flow
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SpaceX Starship Mk1 pressurisation test failure
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What is the formula for calculating the coefficient of lift for an airfoil?
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SpaceX SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch Try #2
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I to design this turbine blade
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SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2: Launch success
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Starship tests: SN4 passed cryogenic test + static fires
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How do moment of inertia and angular acceleration affect drone propellers?
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SpaceX SpaceX Dragon docking simulator
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Effects of hypersonic speed on the behaviour of normal shocks
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How to derive the reflected Mach number relationship?
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Analysing a ##C_M## graph (pitching moment data)
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Gear Load Factor (Reaction Load) Question
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Are induced currents of any concern in satellite missions?
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Can I use a different grade of aluminium for my microlight wing spar?
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Airship on Earth but a reentry glider on Mars
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Could a blimp shrink into a plane?
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NASA NASA connection to EM drive research
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SpaceX Reliable Starlink sight predictions?
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Do Nations Need USA Launch Permission for Rockets?
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Aerodynamics - Question about wingtip shapes
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Hybrid Rocket Injector Plate Design Research
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Prop disc thrust uniformity in turns vs wing position
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Limits to accelerate a spacecraft by spinning it in a circle
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Boeing Debris found in fuel tanks of 70% of inspected 737 Max jets
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What is the Kutta Juokowski theory for the lift of an aerofoil?
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Regarding Standard atmospheric conditions
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Traveling to Mars with plasma rockets
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Need some help with Bernoulli's principle and how it applies to a drone
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How to calculate the 3D straight line distance between 2 GPS measurements?
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Could you create a battery powered plane?
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How Do You Convert Drone Position Errors into Roll and Pitch Angles?
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Helicopter aerodynamics: advancing blades & retreating blades
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What outer structural materials are suitable for high altitude?
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SpaceX SpaceX in-flight abort test (success)
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Guide to Aircraft Coordinates: Roll, Pitch & Heading
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Lift and drag coefficients vs AoA graphs of a specific NACA profile
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Under-the-Ice Prototype Rover for Europa
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What is the electrical power output of a turbofan engine?
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Force components acting on an airfoil
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NASA NASA is going to assemble a quiet supersonic aircraft: X-59 QueSST
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The Nuclear Rocket that Could Reach 20% of the Speed of Light
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Reverse gravity-assist, using the moons of a planet
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Any plausible non-rocket based method to reach orbit?
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High CFM Fan Airfoil: Expert Guide
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Commercial crew parachute tests
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Solving the Rocket Pendulum Fallacy?
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Optimizing Thrust and Operation Time for a CO2-Powered Rocket Torpedo Design
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How to model a rocket equation from the derivative of momentum?
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Could We Monitor Weather on All Planets with Current Space Budget?
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Do surfaces ahead of propellers decrease thrust?
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SpaceX Supersonic electric propulsion systems for airliners
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Project Orion-Like Space Vehicle
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A Flying Hoverboard that I want to replicate
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SpaceX Starship (/Super Heavy) testing: Mk1 stacked, 20 km flight this year
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Can Particle Beams Effectively Vaporize Dangerous Asteroids?
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Fusion aerospace propulsion systems for the near future
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Aeroplane wing structure -- airflow question
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Which of these methods of propulsion is “best” for future spaceflight?
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Can Ion Thrusters with Continuous Iron Expulsion Power Interplanetary Probes?
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Weird nuclear propulsion concept
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NASA's Mars 2020 Rover: Discovery of Life on Mars Sparks Fear and Controversy
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NASA Which of these methods is the best bet for space propulsion?
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Could an Electrostatic Lift Vehicle Transfer the Earth's Atmosphere to the Moon?
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Are CRTs Suitable for Use in Ion Thrusters?
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SpaceX More details about next-gen 18m SpaceX launch vehicle
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Is black-hole propulsion really feasible?
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The 5 closest potentially habitable exoplanets
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What factors affect a golf ball's drag and lift besides spin and speed?
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Why Is Space Travel More Complex Than It Seems?
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Braking spacecraft in a snow-filled tank?
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Boeing How Does the Boeing 777 Main Gear Oleo Strut Work and How Is EPR Calculated?
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How Should We Prepare for Potential Asteroid Collisions?
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Difference between gyroscope angular displacement and Euler angles
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What are the likely first forms of relativistic spacecraft propulsion?
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Power required to compress air in a gas turbine
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Two basic questions about satellite communication
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Aspect ratio used in induced drag and lift calculations
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Application point of the lift force and pitching moment
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SpaceX Anomaly during Crew Dragon test
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Air Cannon Air Speed Calculations
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Kerbal Space Program - Rocket Design Basics
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SpaceX Starlink launch - first 60 satellites
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Ka vs. Ku communication satellites
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NASA Is a VTOL Electric Aircraft Feasible for Titan Exploration?
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Are orbital sun shades to reverse climate change realistic?
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Ideas about centrifugal space colony habitats on high-gravity planets
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Could beta(-) emitters be used to build a compact light-space-drive?
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