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The engineering study has 30 pages of general relativity calculations, whimsically asking how the mission architecture would change if the solar system had a bl
by perihelions 4y ago
The engineering study has 30 pages of general relativity calculations, whimsically asking how the mission architecture would change if the solar system had a black hole. Bit unexpected.
https://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/uploadedDocs/papers/588-ISP-Study-2019-Report_PR.pdf https://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/uploadedDocs/papers/588... (appendix 11.2.2.1, "Relativistic Oberth Maneuver")
- pvitz 4y agoThanks, that was a fun read and could be an exercise or two in a course on general relativity. I was just astonished about the references to Wikipedia, Stackexchange and Wolfram (apparently Mathematica). Maybe this was actually written by a grad student...