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Voyager of course took advantage of an alignment of the planets in order to perform the Grand Tour. Apparently it's 175 years before it happens again, FWIW. I
by JKCalhoun 1y ago
Voyager of course took advantage of an alignment of the planets in order to perform the Grand Tour. Apparently it's 175 years before it happens again, FWIW.
I suppose an extra-solar-system probe though would simply need some gravitational slingshotting and not necessarily visit many of the outer planets. I suppose that changes the time scale.
- floxy 1y agoSolar sails for the near term: https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI?si=AzuL-NZ6JYJ71Rpj&t=883 https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI?si=AzuL-NZ6JYJ71Rpj&t=883 ...which might get up to 22 AU per year. And then in the future: laser-pushed light sails: https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24/items/wikipedia-scholarly-sources-corpus/10.2514.zip&file=10.2514%252F3.8632.pdf https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...