Re: [TML] Juno and Gas Giant Skimming
Tim 06 Jul 2016 01:06 UTC
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 04:28:02PM -0700, (via tml list) wrote:
> Well, with Jupiter, that means that you need more than 3g of
> manuever drive. Or be willing to take a *long* time using CG to get
> far enough out for the gravity to be less than your M-drive.
Not really a long time. Once out of the atmosphere, a 1 gee maneuver
drive with contragrav could get to escape speed from zero in just over
an hour. That's not much when comparing with the time it takes to get
from and to Jupiter's 100D limit (about 2 days at 1 gee).
A ship leaving the atmosphere at orbital speed without contragrav
would get there at about the same time, if it survived the procedure.
- Tim