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I wonder if this same law applies to distance satellites like Voyager get away from earth. Like we sent out voyager 46 years ago, but in 100 years, we will send
by financypants 3y ago
I wonder if this same law applies to distance satellites like Voyager get away from earth. Like we sent out voyager 46 years ago, but in 100 years, we will send out another satellite that will very quickly catch up to Voyager and outpace it
- mcmoor 3y agoThere's certainly some people who're troubled with this problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calculation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_cal... https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightspeedLeapfrog https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightspeedLeapfr...
- financypants 3y agoThanks for this. I’ve been thinking about “lightspeed leapfrog” for many years but never searched it up!
- a1o 3y agoBut maybe we can only build this new probe that will outpace it with information with gathered from the original probe.
- idiotsecant 3y agoVery long distance spaceflight like this is still basically only power d by gravity slingshot maneuvers where we steal an infinitesimal amount of inertia from planets to give a spacecraft some velocity. Voyager was launched during pretty favorable gravitational assist conditions, so unless we dramatically improve delta v and isp in the spacecraft or get a better configuration, probably not.