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Locut0s

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2. Cool idea. But...

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 9, 2014, 07:17 AM

Jan 2014

But I'd imagine that the amount of fuel required to lift it out of earth orbit and into such an orbit would be very prohibitive. It's true it's already in earth orbit but it's in a very low orbit and the difference between that and actually escaping earth is actually very large. At NASA I believe they'd talk about the mount of delta v they would need to achieve and it would require a huge amount of fuel. The ISS has a huge amount of inertia given it's large mass. But yeah it would be awesome if they could do it.

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I've wondered if they could set it on a permanent loop between Earth and Mars. Warren DeMontague Jan 2014 #1

Cool idea. But... Locut0s Jan 2014 #2

Maybe I'll run the numbers, maybe not. hunter Jan 2014 #4

Agreed that would be neat. However... Locut0s Jan 2014 #3