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Question by Usarian: How high would a space station have to orbit Jupiter for it’s occupants to experience Earth-like gravity?
Do we have a propulsion system available today (or soon to come like VASIMR, etc) that could maintain that kind of orbit?
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Answer by lunchtime_browser
if they were orbiting anything, they would experience orbiting-like weightlessness!
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4 Responses
If it’s in orbit then it would be in free fall and they would experience zero gravity just like space stations here in earth orbit.
If U are in orbit around a planet U are already in free fall. There is no gravity. And U would need no motor to maintain that orbit.
The one way we can achieve gravity currently in space is to use a torus shaped station that spins. If you put a station in orbit around a planet, there will be gravity, but you’ll have the feeling of weightlessness while in freefall.
Look up “the universal law of gravitation”.
If you were experiencing “Earth-like” gravity while orbiting Jupiter, don’t worry, it’s only temporary, for you will soon experience much greater gravitational forces, as you will be falling into that big gas ball of a planet!
It’s call center of gravity. If you feel inertia in space, your screwed.