Re: Eyeballs ou: Agena target vehicle (Agena-D)

"gb" <onw9mapsgb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:o-edncC2ebJR9fjeRVn-qg@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> "David Lesher" <wb8foz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>
>> How many G's was the 'eyeballs out' firings?
>
> Agena fired for 80 seconds, adding 129 meters per second to their
> speed and moving the Agena X and Gemini X toward a rendezvous with the
> Agena VIII target vehicle. As reported in On the Shoulders of
> Titans: "negative one-G force"

Hmm, that doesn't quite add up. 129 m/s in 80 s is an acceleration of 1.6
m/s^2, while one G is 9.8 m/s^2.

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