Launches
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To avoid any misunderstandings the BSA decided to put the take off speed (with the sattelite attached) as:dr-spangle wrote:Jeroen, can you confirm at which speed your probe goes?
16.23124 kilometres per second
However, speed will change over time. We calculated that after the gravitational slingshot at Saturn the speed will be 24.212 km/second
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Saturn?! You mean Chrysos?!
And that's 3 times smaller than voyager's speed (24000 here - 60000 by voyager)! And would last for 100 years to leave magnetosphere (3 months in RW)...
And that's 3 times smaller than voyager's speed (24000 here - 60000 by voyager)! And would last for 100 years to leave magnetosphere (3 months in RW)...
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Oh, this f**king measurements 1m/s = 3.6 km/h
So it's 16231 (m/s) * 3.6 = 58431 (km/h) - like voyager. ~35 days in RW to reach magnetosphere...
So it's 16231 (m/s) * 3.6 = 58431 (km/h) - like voyager. ~35 days in RW to reach magnetosphere...
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Re: Launches
I think many of these discussions about realism also need to include this critical element - mission duration. It's pretty apparent by now that the times that we display on our forums OOC are not the same IC, and that in some sense time passes faster on Micras (and I mean 'fast-forwarded' from IRL - not just represented differently due to the nature of the planet). This naturally needs to be worked out so that the MAS can make reasonable judgements on claims to have left the solar system, to have arrived at such and such a planet without any prerequesite rocketry programme being indicated, and so on. I'm not suggesting that we all start posting at specific times to indicate that our probe is within orbit of the planet we launched it at a week ago or something, but certainly having a theoretical basis of it could be useful.