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I suppose it takes a lot of deltaV to get a stable orbit over the sun poles?
by hcarvalhoalves 1y ago
I suppose it takes a lot of deltaV to get a stable orbit over the sun poles?
- ChocolateGod 1y agoYou'd need to completely cancel out the rotation of the solar system, far beyond what we have the technology to do.
- perihelions 1y agoIt's doable with gravity assists. Ulysses got up to 79° inclination using a Jupiter flyby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft)
- sandworm101 1y agoIt does, but most of the needed dV is harvested from the planets during gravity assists. The probe is accelerated/turned several hundred or thousand m/s and in exchange the planets it passes are shifted/slowed/turned by maybe 0.00000000000000000000001 m/s. In this case, the probe largely needs to slow down, to bleed of the speed it got from being at earth's orbit, so the planets are probably being accelerated.