Re:Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma
by Jeff_Brown on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @09:36PM
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There's no way to get a gravity assist in directions orthogonal to the solar plane, which makes travel in those directions either far more expensive or far slower.
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Re:Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma
by mjgs on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @10:31PM
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I hadn’t thought of that, but your totally right. In the article’s picture, one of the space craft appears to be heading off in a direction outside of the solar plane, but it’s not by a huge amount.
That’s why we need a way to create gravity artificially if we are going to do any space exploration. It would be a bit crap if we could only move in 2 dimensions.