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It doesn’t take high acceleration. If you had a propulsion system that could do a sustained 1g acceleration a trip to Jupiter would take around 6 days, includin
by Tagbert 4y ago
It doesn’t take high acceleration. If you had a propulsion system that could do a sustained 1g acceleration a trip to Jupiter would take around 6 days, including deceleration. That is a quite reasonable transit time. There is just the small problem of finding such a propulsion system.
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- kbelder 4y agoAbsolutely. I think people don't really have a gut feeling for this, but you don't need high acceleration to get anywhere in the solar system; you just need sustained acceleration. Right now, our probes accelerate for minutes and then coast for years. If you could sustain 1g acceleration for, say, weeks, it even makes interstellar travel reasonable. A day of 1g acceleration will get you up to about 850 kilometers per second... or, 73 million km per day. Thirty days of 1g acceleration gets you to 2 billion km/day. That's close to 1% of the speed of light.