Re: Timelines

On Feb 6, 7:26 pm, John Schilling <schil...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Since a Hohmann transfer to Saturn takes about six years, that gives you
> two and a half years to assemble your team and design your spacecraft.

Of course, no one uses a pure Hohmann transfer since the start and
end "corners" are very slow and just beg to be cut.  For a trip to
Saturn, I suppose the Earth end would be pretty close to Hohmann
but the Saturn end could be cut a lot.

And no, I don't know how much a "lot" would be.  I'm guessing a
savings between one and two years wouldn't cost much more
delta-v, but I'm not good at calculating this stuff.

Isaac Kuo