Taking the slow lane to Saturn
Feb 20, 2020
2 minutes
Designing a space mission is a balancing act, there are lots of different constraints to find an optimum solution for a spacecraft’s trajectory. To keep interplanetary journey times short, you initially want to propel a spacecraft away from Earth as fast as possible. But whatever the launch vehicle, the faster this initial throw the smaller
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