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Fastest possible practical slingshot.
In another thread discussions have been going on about a satellite to
reinvestigate pioneer anomalous acceleration. To do this it would be helpful to reach the outer solar system as rapidly as possible, using a light cheap and relatively simple spacecraft. The precise trajectory is not very important. What would be the fastest economical way to go trans-plutonic? I presume a slingshot round the moon followed by a close slingshot around jupiter would be best, but what would the fastest be? -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. |
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Fastest possible practical slingshot.
Oz wrote:
..... To do this it would be helpful to reach the outer solar system as rapidly as possible, using a light cheap and relatively simple spacecraft. The precise trajectory is not very important. What would be the fastest economical way to go trans-plutonic? I presume a slingshot round the moon followed by a close slingshot There was an article about this in a popular magazine some years ago. I think the answer was multiple swings around the earth-moon system and venus in between, then onto Jupiter etc. It seems that a two body system like the earth-moon is very effective in exchanging momentum. -- Ray Tomes http://ray.tomes.biz/ http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/ |
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