cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/18022653
Launches
I understand but some people are worth the propellant
but if you do an eve-kerbin-jool gravity assist…
Very counter intuitive IMO. I never knew that!
Just get them to low orbit, let reentry take care of the problem.
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.
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.
why would you be fighting our velocity. you just need to nudge away in the direction it can still be moving with our velocity. that is what an orbit is. again it does not need to be an arrow blasting in a straight line at the sun it just needs to have an orbit that is falling into it.
But I don’t want them to just float out there, I want them to burn