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Although rockets could take you between closely spaced planets, the delta V to escape the system would be much greater than in our solar system, by an order of
by pfdietz 2y ago
Although rockets could take you between closely spaced planets, the delta V to escape the system would be much greater than in our solar system, by an order of magnitude. The habitable planet would be much deeper in the star's gravity well than we are in our Sun's.
Travel times between inner planets would be very short, I admit.
- tomrod 2y agoYou should be able to sling shot multiple times to improve that though?
- pfdietz 2y agoSome, although I think that would need either lots of slingshots or really heavy planets. If there are many closely spaced planets it could work, I think, and the encounter cadence would be high. If there are lots of planets in closely spaced orbits I'd think orbital resonances could force planets into elliptical orbits, which would drive strong tidal heating, as on Io (but more so, due to the much stronger gravity of the primary.)