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That’s just a standard chemical rocket for the initial push and then a few gravity assists right? Couldn’t an ion engine with a nuclear reactor providing the e
by guidoism 2y ago
That’s just a standard chemical rocket for the initial push and then a few gravity assists right?
Couldn’t an ion engine with a nuclear reactor providing the electricity accelerate more over that period? I’m genuinely curious, I don’t know the answer.
- Sparkyte 2y agoEven an ion engine needs fuel. We shot out Voyager 1 in 1977. It has traversed 47 years of distance. There has been the talk of solar sails as well, but gravity assist propulsion is already so much easier to achieve for satellites.