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Solar System 'superhighway' could speed up space travel
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2667" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.engadget.com/solar-system-superhighway-for-space-travel-214616795.html" target="_blank"><strong>Solar System 'superhighway' could speed up space travel - engadget</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The route could also lead to more efficient trips.</strong></p><p></p><p>Future deep space missions might not take as long as you’d think. Researchers have <a href="https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/space_superhighway" target="_blank">discovered</a> a Solar System “superhighway” network of routes that would let <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018-12-10-nasa-voyager-2-entered-interstellar-space.html" target="_blank">probes</a> and other spacecraft travel outward at quicker pace. Asteroids near Jupiter, for example, could reach Neptune’s distance in less than 10 years and 100AU (about three times Neptune’s distance from the Sun) in 100 years. Spacecraft would theoretically be faster.</p><p></p><p>Scientists found the routes by computing how “millions” of Solar System orbits fit inside known space manifolds, or arch structures that extend from the asteroid belt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2667, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.engadget.com/solar-system-superhighway-for-space-travel-214616795.html'][B]Solar System 'superhighway' could speed up space travel - engadget[/B][/URL] [B] The route could also lead to more efficient trips.[/B] Future deep space missions might not take as long as you’d think. Researchers have [URL='https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/space_superhighway']discovered[/URL] a Solar System “superhighway” network of routes that would let [URL='https://www.engadget.com/2018-12-10-nasa-voyager-2-entered-interstellar-space.html']probes[/URL] and other spacecraft travel outward at quicker pace. Asteroids near Jupiter, for example, could reach Neptune’s distance in less than 10 years and 100AU (about three times Neptune’s distance from the Sun) in 100 years. Spacecraft would theoretically be faster. Scientists found the routes by computing how “millions” of Solar System orbits fit inside known space manifolds, or arch structures that extend from the asteroid belt. [/QUOTE]
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