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Looks like once you escape earths orbit at 11km/s, you still need another 30km/s delta-v to then escape the solar system
by Abekkus 3y ago
Looks like once you escape earths orbit at 11km/s, you still need another 30km/s delta-v to then escape the solar system
- p1esk 3y agoWhy do we need any additional speed to escape the solar system?
- CSMastermind 3y agoBecause the Sun has its own gravity well you need to get out of. Lots of things could be fast enough to escape the pull of the Earth but not the Sun (like all the other things besides Earth that orbit it)
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI thought it was 12 km/s. 30km/s is what’s required to fall into the sun, which is considerably more than escaping the solar system.
- eimrine 3y agoI love the fact that one of them has launched radially and another tangentially, it will be interesting to look at the orbit of each Voyager when they finish a full rotation around the Sun.