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Could you skim it off a gas giant? If part of a gravity assist there would be no gravity well penalty.
by bilsbie 3y ago
Could you skim it off a gas giant? If part of a gravity assist there would be no gravity well penalty.
- pfdietz 3y agoThat would be (from Uranus) the next best idea (or perhaps scooping suborbitally lobbed 3He tanks in a rugged cone-shaped collector), but I think launching it to space in the normal way from a hypothetical smaller planet would be better, if such a planet existed.