You forgot to mention how much more dangerous and consuming landfills are and how recycling is a bullshit scheme to save corporations a couple bucks and how 90% of recycled material winds up in the same landfills anyways, which again take up 100+ times the space and are an actual hazard and detrimental to the environment
Yep I’m watching the coverage now. I love the Falcon Heavy, I’m not sure why I like it so much. It would be cool if it had a role in crewed space flight for heavier payloads. But I suppose that’s what SLS is for…
"Shortcut to Mars" sounds like the kind of thing they try in sci-fi before somehow entering a wormhole and being lost in space. Still nearly half a year of just travel time but I can't wait to see a Mars flyby with humans aboard
Im not entirely sure what's so novel about it that we would not have been aware of it before. Something do with the path asteroids take. All the articles talking about it are really unhelpful on that front."Shortcut to Mars" sounds like the kind of thing they try in sci-fi before somehow entering a wormhole and being lost in space. Still nearly half a year of just travel time but I can't wait to see a Mars flyby with humans aboard
My understanding of it is they are tracking an asteroid that is taking a relatively natural orbit and trying to stay within a few degrees of the orbital plane that asteroid takes. It's kind of like finding a current in the ocean that helps push you along because the water is already going that direction. In this case it's less about space helping you move and more about not intersecting gravity in a way that you have to overcome, and since the asteroid is not changing orbit by speeding up or slowing down with an engine, it outlines an efficient orbit we can try.
Well, the max efficiency hohmann transfer is what it is, but if you are willing to burn more fuel things get more interesting and travel times start to significantly shorten as well as there being more potential routes
Ahh, so, its like in Kerbal Space Program. Where instead of worrying about where my target planet was on any given day I decide to launch, I instead worry about how many boosters I can strap to the command module.
Wow, Artemis I hardware is finally being delivered! Took BOEING long enough!
Bro, just aerobreak. It's that easy, saar. Literal Jugaad measure (just like stealing energy from other celestial bodies with a gravity assist).Just remember that if you aggressively burn to shorten the travel time to get to Mars (or any other body in the solar system), you also need to aggressively brake to enter orbit. So your spacecraft needs a lot of delta-v to pull it off.
But yes you can always go full Kerbal and add moar boosters.
But yeah, as others have stated there's really nothing new to go off (if the only thing it is suggesting is just using a close flyby to gain more energy). The only real novel thing is the application of Asteroids instead of planets like Venus and Mars as they are close to us and don't take too much energy to get to. Europa Clipper is using Mars then Earth for example as it launched on Falcon Heavy, which didn't have the performance for a direct trajectory.
