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The Challenges of Spacecraft Design
Designers of spacecraft have found themselves to be severely constrained when it comes to essentially every single sub system that they have to deal with. But as poul woster is as fond of saying, and poll woister is the a develop engineer at space x, mass covers a lot of sins. Each marsr over weiyhs around about two thousand pounds, o a thousand kilograms,. To have the mass of its various subsystems track down to one tenth of a gram, which is about the mass of a postage stamp. Sothat's like seven orders of magnitudead.