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You can't do a gravity assist around the sun once you've reached solar escape velocity, because you won't be visiting the sun again. If we could pull that tric
by jerf 7y ago
You can't do a gravity assist around the sun once you've reached solar escape velocity, because you won't be visiting the sun again.
If we could pull that trick so easily, we already would have.
- sandworm101 7y agoWell... you could wrap around another star, or two, and come back to this sun for another assist a la Rendezvous with Rama.