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Re:Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel T... by aquova on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:37PM (#25421303)
To put that into perspective, it took Voyager 2 8.5 years to reach Uranus, and 12 years to reach Neptune.
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Re:Astronomers Find Cosmic 'Superhighways' for Fast Travel T... by yborg on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:58PM (#25427166)
That was thanks to a full "Grand Tour" alignment of the outer planets that allowed gravity slingshots at each destination. This unfortunately only lines up once every 175 years.
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