[AR] Re: modeling Electron (was Re: Successful liquid launch at FAR)

  • From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:26:22 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Paul Breed wrote:

There is video of the battery ejection.Should be able to model the battery weight by estimating size from that and assuming standard Liion battery density...

I fear that would run into the same problem seen in estimating asteroid densities from remote observations: a 15% error in diameter turns into a 50% error in volume.

Henry

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