Timeline for Would leaving the ecliptic plane offer any benefit to interstellar travel?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
3 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2017 at 13:41 | comment | added | HopDavid | I like this answer. It has always seemed to me the sun could deliver an amazing Oberth benefit if a near perihelion burn could be done. Am pleased that it has a name: The Kraft Arnold von Ehricke trajectory. XKCD had a pic but Randall didn't do this well. | |
| Sep 20, 2013 at 5:51 | comment | added | Mark Adler | This answer is much better than the accepted one. To even get close to useful interstellar speeds, you would have to use a propulsive solar flyby. So the Voyager approach is nowhere near the fastest way to leave the solar system, as claimed in that other answer. | |
| Aug 4, 2013 at 19:19 | history | answered | Deer Hunter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |