With that combination, you can use faster trajectories and
still get into orbit, and one could get to Uranus within five years.
Not exact matches
«We think it's the simplest configuration you can have and
still get something useful
into orbit.»
It will be a few years before we see the results of this mission as, even through the Sun is quite close in astronomical terms, it is
still a huge distance from the Earth and the mechanics of
getting the probe
into the right
orbit require multiple
orbits and positioning.
Every once in a while, for reasons that we
still don't quite understand, one of these objects
gets bumped out of its
orbit and drops
into the inner solar system.