Remember to conserve propellant!
Remember to conserve propellant!
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/18022653
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I understand but some people are worth the propellant
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but if you do an eve-kerbin-jool gravity assist...
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Just get them to low orbit, let reentry take care of the problem.
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Just strap em to the angry side of the rocket on earth and let the exhaust deal with em
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yeah this thing thats become popular is so annoying because it assume some straight arrow shot into the sun when you just want to send the item into an unstable orbit. The suns gravity well is all you need to get it into.
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Even without actively accelerating toward the sun, something starting on earth is already orbiting the sun at about 100,000 km/h. You'd have to cancel that out by accelerating the same amount in the opposite direction just to be able to fall into the sun's gravity well instead of continuing to orbit. That would take quite a bit of propellant.
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Very counter intuitive IMO. I never knew that!
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But I don't want them to just float out there, I want them to burn
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Giving your enemies a decade worth of food and water to ensure they survive a dozen Venus flybies to drop their orbit into the sun
Actually, can I be your enemy? That sounds like the coolest way to die
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