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That'd be really cool! And definitely helped by the fact that you'd only need to head out at a fraction of Voyagers speeds to get the benefit. There's some det
by ethbr1 2y ago
That'd be really cool! And definitely helped by the fact that you'd only need to head out at a fraction of Voyagers speeds to get the benefit.
There's some details on the Voyager gravity-assist mechanics here [0], but you'd also need the escape trajectory to be pointed in the Voyager direction which would further constrain...
That said, Earth-Jupiter-Saturn alignments don't seem that rare (on a decades scale).
[0] http://www.gravityassist.com/IAF3-2/Ref.%203-143.pdf http://www.gravityassist.com/IAF3-2/Ref.%203-143.pdf