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Re: Poll: Reasonable and achievable, or shooting for the stars?

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
Besides, I don't think our FRC batteries have enough juice to get the balls into orbit, let alone beyond orbit.
FRC batteries store about 1MJ of energy, and it takes about 1MJ of energy to get a 100 gram object to escape velocity, so one battery has enough energy to get about 1 fuel beyond earth's orbit.
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