To: Carriage Hill
That would take an incredible amount of rocket fuel. You have to climb out of earth’s gravity well, then you have to negate all, or almost all, of the angular momentum associated with being in earth orbit.
32 posted on
03/08/2024 12:13:06 PM PST by
Campion
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To: Campion
If you launch the payload from space, it probably would take very much, would it?
34 posted on
03/08/2024 12:26:27 PM PST by
Carriage Hill
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To: Campion
It took many years for the Messenger probe to orbit Mercury. The probe used many gravity assists with planets to get the necessary speed for the encounter.
50 posted on
03/08/2024 6:02:19 PM PST by
Nateman
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