Action Reaction And Momentum Conservation ✦

“That’s just breaking the ship, Mira.”

She suited up and floated to the engine bay. Beside the seized rotor housing was the emergency spin-dump valve—a massive, explosive hatch designed to vent the rotor’s angular momentum into space as a last-ditch stabilization measure. action reaction and momentum conservation

She calculated the mass split: thirty tons ejected, twenty tons retained. The action: thirty tons at 500 m/s. The reaction: twenty tons at… she did the math. 750 m/s. Not much, but enough to shift their vector out of the meteor swarm’s path. “That’s just breaking the ship, Mira