RE: Reaching for the stars, finally - will the young ones among us get pics of Alpha C.?
April 13, 2016 at 6:15 am
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2016 at 6:18 am by Alex K.)
and I get that to reach 1 g acceleration with a 1 kg probe, one needs to reflect roughly 1.4 Gigawatt off of it.
1 g is of course a lot. To reach 1% of light speed, one takes a bit more than three days.
This all scales linearly, so if you have just 100 megawatts and a 10 kg probe, you'd need 300 days of boosting.
I hope I haven't messed up the calculation.
1 g is of course a lot. To reach 1% of light speed, one takes a bit more than three days.
This all scales linearly, so if you have just 100 megawatts and a 10 kg probe, you'd need 300 days of boosting.
I hope I haven't messed up the calculation.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
