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We better hurry that up. 500 AU is 3.5 times more than Voyagers currently made, and it took them 40+ years to get there. It would be interesting to fiddle with
by SergeAx 5y ago
We better hurry that up. 500 AU is 3.5 times more than Voyagers currently made, and it took them 40+ years to get there. It would be interesting to fiddle with fuel/payload/acceleration/speed metrics with LEO [re]fuel.
- floxy 5y agoAt ~14:20 in the video they start describing the solar sails that get the spacecraft up to 22 AU/year in velocity, passing Pluto's orbit in 2 years (230,000 miles/hour or 105,000 m/s or 0.035%*c).