To: Hunble
I think that it will take so long because after it achieves orbit, the ion engines will start and very gently accelerate the craft into higher and higher orbits until the orbit includes the moon, at which point the craft is oriented into an orbit around the moon, probably by conventional chemical rockets.
5 posted on
08/22/2003 8:14:19 AM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
That was my theory, but I was rather surprised that the ion engine thrust was that small.
6 posted on
08/22/2003 8:19:54 AM PDT by
Hunble
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