Recent content by Scaledriver

six months with no gravity would be an issue. Need to recalculate.

And, because you can also use the rotation of the Earth in the same manner I can take off from Earth and circle the sun and land again. if the craft is light enough. Which is possible with the current materials.

This changes all my theories. Using this new data I can build a fully electric space vehicle. Solar powered.

The "ship". Doesn't even need to have very much propulsion. Most is used for course correction. Human pilot is going to be needed though rf signals wouldn't be able to reach the area I'm going.

Compiling and running simulation. I'll let you know if it works.

I have and its applicable.

I apologize I can envision this I just need to run some computer modeling to see the effects. Thank you for your input.

The Earth gives us the speed, the sun can be used to change the direction of the velocity.

The Earth is moving very fast relative to the sun. So initial velocity is high. Why can't that be used as a base to then vector off the Suns gravity and change that potential to a chosen vector?

I was curious if a parabolic course through the Suns gravity would produce any increase of velocity.

Relative to the Suns position starting from earth.

Is it possible to use the sun to slingshot vehicles in order to achieve higher velocities?