HTTP:: Investigating Space Lane and Gravitational Corridors
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Some science-fiction novels may have got it right. Space lanes, as envisioned in Edmond Hamilton's 1928 classic Crashing Suns, may indeed exist, and they may be connecting all the most important bodies in the solar system. These corridors are best described as low-speed, fuel-efficient pathways of traveling from one planet to another, for example, while making use of Lagrangian points. These are positions in an orbital configuration, where an object, such as a satellite, remains in the same relative position to a system.For example, the Earth and the Moon for a system. In this system, there are five points that always remain in the same relative position in respect to the two bodies. This work, by Italian-French mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange, is instrumental for allowing the launch of highly precise telescopes today. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel and Planck are both on an orbit around the Sun, but remain in the same position relative to the star, Earth an!
d the Moon at all times. The new gravitational corridor idea holds that the most efficient method of traveling between two planets in the solar system is not necessarily the fastest. It may be, physicists reveal, that traveling between Lagrangian points surrounding various planets, asteroids and comets, is the most fuel-efficient ...
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