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That is plain impossible. To change the shape or the inclination of the orbit takes a lot of fuel (change of 1km/s is a good order of order of magnitude even if
by krastanov 12y ago
That is plain impossible. To change the shape or the inclination of the orbit takes a lot of fuel (change of 1km/s is a good order of order of magnitude even if it is more of an upper bound).
Moreover, if you have to carry fuel for somebody else it gets that much harder to accelerate/decelerate like that.
- ForHackernews 12y agoThe Tyranny of the Rocket Equation: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedi...
- clebio 12y agoWhat an excellent read. Thanks so much for the link!