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VajrapaniP
This just changed my life. Brilliant.
Andilee
What did the capital of Alaska do that deserves to get boosted into space?
Mojomannen55
elliedoodles
And here I am struggling to get a curve shot right in Kirby's Dream Course...
Zatheron
This makes me want to send some poor kerbal hurtling into oblivion forever and ever
BurtMacklinYouSOB
Juno I have no idea what the hell Juno is
dakotaranch
Rich Purnell is a steely eyed missile man
BeerFueledAdventurer
Math 'n such
rubbarz
What about the astroid thing they just launched yesterday? Is there and gifs for that
Noneyobizzness
Ok, but what type of shirt was the man wearing?
AtsaMattaForYou
This is one doodle that can't be undid Homeskillet. http://imgur.com/Om2NeB1
SlagathorDeb
But it's SEPTEMBER! Where is Juno now???? WHERE IS JUNO NOW?!?!?!?!?!
CaptainGary
nimeton0
https://images.alphacoders.com/855/85501.jpg
Spidey209
Kerbel Space Program is awesum!
byohzzrd
Tried this on Simple Rockets. Ran out of fuel and cratered into Smars.
YuDoThis
Nature
whistlepop
Space propeller!
AtomicPotato7
Interesting fact: Arthur C. Clarke designed this maneuver in the book of 2001: a space oddesey
LogicalSenselessness
This kind of shit just blows my mind
mac1222
Great movie btw
0xFFF1
a better love story than Twilight
OtherPeoplesNamesGetMePoints
So was the starting date of 2011 something they did to use the earth to adjust speed or adjust angle? Diagram makes it look like going...
OtherPeoplesNamesGetMePoints
...directly to Jupiter without the first loop would have been quicker but not sure if that is true or not.
uncleabel
I'm no expert or anything, but I'm assuming its because of velocity problems, lets say they used the gravity of Earth as a "slingshot" to...
uncleabel
...gain the speed necessary. I really dont know how true that could be but anyone that has facts about it is free to teach us.
Britmon
The more Juno /a/XWJkV
Dragonboy393
missb128
Britmon
Thanks fam.
ThatGuyFromThatOneAnime
Take the upvote and leave.
Britmon
I will never leave.
imgurane
Might be hard for you to reach space then...
usersubbordercontrol
+1 for science. But this is a bit outdated
mac1222
Still neat how it used gravitational assist to get to Jupiter
KnightsOfShame
Good science is never outdated.
firagablitz
Moon landings are reposted but I never see this stuff. Illustrated Orbital Acceleration maneuvers give me a chub.
beearewhyayyenn
Two months?? Pssssh old news let me know when we've colonized Uranus
aliceentersdreamland
Outdated? It landed on Jupiter in July...
vitaminRmademefat
And has subsequently been posted here at least 1,000 times.
two2two2
I've never seen it so I'm happy he reposted it
mac1222
Dont think it landed. Just orbiting.
Lierofox
You don't really land on Jupiter anyway...you slowly merge with it as the weight of ~its atmosphere alone~ crushes you to oblivion.
Spencer3035
The calculations though. That's some nice timing.
proileri
That's like 'BOOM Jupiter, headshot'.
ChildeRoland82
Within 1 second of scheduled arrival
Spencer3035
I wish I could work with the geniuses that made this happen
DavidBowiesBulgeInLabyrinth
Everyday I dream about being a math wiz that can work this kind of thing out. Sigh. Maybe in the next life.
MrBananaBeak
Sir Isaac Newton is long dead, sir.
browsib
That's fucking impressive. It always amazes me that people can work shit like this out so perfectly on a scale as large as, you know, space.
barnwolf
I basically can't use no burn gravity assists in KSP. Just a pain to theory craft it and work backwards to get a launch date.
borisperrons
There's a mod, flyby calculator, that does that (although multiple flybys of the same body are not supported)
AnnoyingXmasElf
daelith
And they're scary accurate too. They hit projections within inches.
WhatzitTooya
I would define the accuracy rather in the amount of fuel used for corrections.
Hurantsu
Sadly some people still think that the world is flat.
imgurane
They... flatter you?
Syzygy77
Is both flat and round. Like a pizza.
MrBananaBeak
Using mathematical calculations reliant on laws discovered in the 1600s. So awesome.
imgurane
Feel free to try that. You've never worked with anything in space, have you? GPS alone is nuts trying to match orbits, curvatures, etc
awesock
GPS is probably harder to execute than something like this physics wise
MrBananaBeak
Sir Isaac Newton's laws of gravity are the basis of nearly all those calculations.
literallyicanteven
Yes the law of universal gravitation is absolutely critical for these calculations.
literallyicanteven
Even more impressive is Kepler laid the foundation for Newton nearly 100 years earlier! Mind blowing
imgurane
It also requires relativity due to distances involved. As does space travel. If all you can calculate is a downvote, then I've made my point
MrBananaBeak
Was not I that downvoted you. But the fact remains that the calculations would not be possible at all without Newton's laws.
amnotamoose
While implementing the plan requires relativity corrections, he's right that this simple diagram can be planned by Newtonian Gravity alone.