Answer by TheDemonLord for Using a planetary flyby to reduce speed
I am getting serious flashbacks to playing Kerbal Space Program...So Starfish Prime has a very good answer - but...AeroBrakingThis is something that we used to do in KSP. In short - if you were running...
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The important thing here is that spacecraft trajectory planning is complex. There's a reasonable amount of math involved in solving your problem and I suspect that the readers/viewers/players of your...
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At the end of my novel, the surviving crew of a spaceship is hurtling past a Dyson swarm that encloses the sun where the asteroid belt used to be. They are traveling too fast for orbital insertion and...
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