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by leephillips 28 days ago
What are these units relating the rate of use of fuel: m/s? Is it the velocity of expelled reaction gas?
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I think that's delta-v.
I’ll take your word for it; I’m not familiar with satellite-speak.

But to me,

“In this case, the fuel required to conduct such a maneuver is ~105-106m/sec”

means that they’re talking about a quantity of fuel, but giving a velocity.