Brachistochrone Trajectories For Spaceships Explained

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Kerbal Space Program
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Kerbal Space Program (2015)
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If you've got yourself a torchship that can accelerate continuously for days at a time then you can ignore things like Hohman transfer orbits and just power from one planet to the next using brachistochrone trajectories.



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