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A visual alignment like the one you mention wouldn’t have been useful for spacecraft to get to the planets more easily. An alignment in the scale of the one th
by loloquwowndueo 2y ago
A visual alignment like the one you mention wouldn’t have been useful for spacecraft to get to the planets more easily.
An alignment in the scale of the one that enabled the Voyager flybys of the outer planets won’t happen until sometime in the 23rd century.
- Dylan16807 2y ago> An alignment in the scale of the one that enabled the Voyager flybys of the outer planets won’t happen until sometime in the 23rd century. Only if you're particularly concerned with using a single probe to visit all of them. Jupiter provides the main boost and launch windows from jupiter to anywhere come by every decade.
- loloquwowndueo 2y agoParent did mention a single craft. Of course NASA can’t even afford that these days so it’s all moot anyway.
- jmclnx 2y agoAh, I did not know it was just visual. I thought it was odd and too quick for another alignment :) Thanks