How do the ships work in the expanse?

Ships in The Expanse are built with decks perpendicular to the direction of thrust, like flying through space in an office tower with an engine in the basement. When the ship reaches a halfway point, it turns around and thrusts in the other direction to slow down, creating more gravity.

How do ships go backwards?

The rotational energy transmitted to the shaft then transmit it to the propeller giving it motion. The propeller with its churning action cuts the water backwards creating equal and opposite force in opposite direction. This happens due to the newtons third law of motion.

How do ships have gravity in the expanse?

In the Expanse series by James S. A. Corey, space stations generate artificial gravity by rotating, as do spun-up, hollowed-out asteroids, usually at around 0.3 g. Moving ships under constant thrust also simulate gravity by linear acceleration.

How fast do ships go in the expanse?

around 25 million meters per second
At the end of the clip, the spacecraft is traveling around 25 million meters per second and has an acceleration of about 46,119 m/s2. That’s the equivalent of 4,700 g’s. Boom. Of course, it’s all for a visual effect.

Do the ships fly backwards in the expanse?

No. Ships in The Expanse decelerate the same way as they accelerate: Using their primary engines. What they do is flip the ship 180 degrees, so the engine thrust is now pushing against the ship’s inertia.

Can ships sail backwards?

To sail backwards, you must stop sailing forwards – pretty obvious really, but if you have any forward momentum it will make it more difficult to do. The only way to sail backwards is to push the sail out on the wrong side of the boat, so the wind fills it on the wrong side, pushing you backwards.

Is spin gravity real?

Technically, rotation produces the same effect as gravity because it produces a force (called the centrifugal force) just like gravity produces a force. In a rotating space station, people will be “stuck” to the outside too, but with a force equal to that of gravity so they will be able to walk around on the edges.

What fuel does the Rocinante use?

The 250 ton Rocinante needs to first be filled with 30.75 tons of fusion fuel. A 1:2 mix of Deuterium (205kg/m^3) and Helium-3 (59kg/m^3; it won’t freeze) has an average density of 107.6kg/m^3, so this amount of fuel occupies 285m^3.

How do spaceships move in the expanse?

In the Expanse universe, spaceships are flipping around all the time to vector their engines in the correct direction to change their velocity. And we often read references to what the thrusters are doing on ships. This is all good. But the ships don’t really move the way real spacecraft move.

Why are the spaceships always flying backwards?

Oh, you should note that often the spaceships are flying backwards because they don’t actually fly in space. Flying implies using air to create lift and that’s not what’s going on here. If you want to go from point A to point B, here’s what you do.

Why doesn’t debris fall down when the ship is not rotating?

It wouldn’t fall because it’s not rotating. The debris doesn’t rotate around the axis of the ship because nothing pushes it to get it spinning. The rest of the stuff in the ship is connected to the floors and walls.

What would it feel like to be inside a spaceship?

It doesn’t matter if this spaceship is in orbit around a planet or traveling between planets. All that matters is that the motion is only due to a gravitational interaction (with the planet or with the sun). In that case, everyone inside will only have the gravitational force and they will feel weightless.