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Launching things from the Earth to the Sun is very difficult. We're talking a Saturn-V-sized rocket to move less than a lunar-lander-mass of waste. The fundamen
by comicjk 7y ago
Launching things from the Earth to the Sun is very difficult. We're talking a Saturn-V-sized rocket to move less than a lunar-lander-mass of waste. The fundamental problem is that the Earth moves fast in its orbit, and in order to drop your spaceship's orbit towards the Sun you have to slow down.
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