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Nitpicky but.... we'd still want to use gravitational slingshots even if we had more deltaVs to burn.
by civilian 10y ago
Nitpicky but.... we'd still want to use gravitational slingshots even if we had more deltaVs to burn.
- hcrisp 10y agoYes, in fact per Mark Adler [0] you'd use a Jupiter flyby to fly back to the sun and then do a high thrust burn at closest approach to maximize your speed into interstellar space (Oberth effect). [0] https://www.quora.com/Can-we-use-the-gravity-of-the-sun-to-slingshot-spacecraft-into-interstellar-space-or-to-other-stars https://www.quora.com/Can-we-use-the-gravity-of-the-sun-to-s...