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Voyager used gravity assist to achieve its current velocity, so the comparison isn't 100% fair. A craft with this drive can certainly avail itself of that tech
by oldmanjay 12y ago
Voyager used gravity assist to achieve its current velocity, so the comparison isn't 100% fair. A craft with this drive can certainly avail itself of that technique as well.
- daeken 12y agoOh, for sure. It's by no means an apples-to-apples comparison (just being in orbit around Earth before you start your journey out gives you a huge jump on that), just gives you a sense of scale.
- sehugg 12y agoOther deep-space spacecraft make use of non-trivial delta-v, around 200/300 m/s for some maneuvers: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4054/delta-v-of-deep-space-maneuvers-in-deep-space-missions-like-voyager-or-pioneer https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4054/delta-v-of-de...