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A triple-star system and the closest stellar neighbor to our solar system
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Is there any limit to how many times you can increase velocity by repeated sling shot manoeu...
I believe travelling to Alpha Centauri at ~10 km/s would take of the order of 100 000 years (10 km/s is the order of speed of probes currently leaving the solar system). That seems 1. rather a long ti …
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Is there any limit to how many times you can increase velocity by repeated sling shot manoeu...
So if the idea is to ping-pong between two planets, each ping-pong in the series will give roughly the same acceleration, which is related to the orbital velocity of the body you are slingshotting.
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