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Originally Posted by zamler
Okay then what speed will be at and relative to what when fully deployed.
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The problem is it appears to be report velocity in rectilinear cordinates relative to the earth. You really need to know it’s radial velocity away from the sun and it’s angular velocity
It will have an angular velocity relative to the Sun of 365/360 degrees per day and equal to the earth.
But if you want the satellites linear velocity relative to the earth perpendicular to the earth/sun. The Earth moves at about 67000 MPH and is 93 Million miles away. The Lagrange 2 is 1 million miles away. So 18.6/93 = (X+18.6)/94 So X = .211 MI/second.