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Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 05:02:07 UTC No. 16464437
I have a potentially stupid question. If you rearranged the moons in the solar system and the asteroids in the Kepler belt with the express purpose of making slingshot orbits between the planets faster what's the most gain you could create for space travel time between all of the planets? I'm assuming you have near godlike powers to tow asteroids to the necessary positions and so on. Bonus points if the orbits make sense. I wonder if this is something that has an LLM solution or if its an np incompetent hard problem in a mathematical sense. It came up in an idea for a scifi story.
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 05:02:57 UTC No. 16464438
>>16464437
Gee thanks hacked auto complete. *Np incomplete.
Anonymous at Wed, 6 Nov 2024 13:40:32 UTC No. 16464897
>>16464437
Your question is ill-posed. The transfer time depends on the transfer orbit itself. The usual Hohmann transfer is the (almost always) the most fuel efficient, but has the biggest transfer time. Ballistic transfer requires more fuel but get you to the destination faster.
The almost always part applies for orbits with large semi-major axis ratios. For these orbits, the bi-elliptic transfer is slightly more efficient but even slower.