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Very exciting to see! I wonder why the throttling is so imprecise in this test-hop. I would’ve assumed that having small nozzles and a compact design like this would make it easier to control. This is all just speculation, ofc. but maybe the engines are made to perform better with heavier loads than this proof of concept design. Hopefully, Everyday astronaut will visit them again one day to ask more questions about all the progress they’ve made.
This is the key point of my question because the mass m of the “bunch of mass” that is close to Venus will be less when you consider the density p with m = p * V, where V is just the volume of mass that is close enough to Venus. Assuming the Suns density is uniform (which it isn’t, most of the mass is far away from Venus), p and by extension m and by extension F (the gravitational force) are proportional to 1/r³.
Unfortunately, the actual calculations are far too hard for me, but my intuition would suggest that the 1/r³ relationship of density and volume would outdo any other factors here.