About 9 light years separate Earth from the closest star system. There is a rocket that we are sending. Let the speed of the exhaust be 1/64 the speed of light. Make the beginning fuel mass twice as large as the load. How how long will it take to arrive the star system if it takes 200 hours to burn off the whole rocket's fuel and the fuel tank is not evacuated from the rocket?

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About 9 light years separate Earth from the closest star system. There is a rocket that we are sending. Let the speed of the exhaust be 1/64 the speed of light. Make the beginning fuel mass twice as large as the load. How how long will it take to arrive the star system if it takes 200 hours to burn off the whole rocket's fuel and the fuel tank is not evacuated from the rocket? 

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