Recent content by Dude

Actually, you can. I'll have an example for you and the OP later today. With that said ... Gentlemen, what is your point? Seriously. This thread started because someone saw something he thought was pretty cool on a fictional television show that features faster-than-light travel, aliens...

Or you could do a retrograde sling around Jupiter, and kill your heliocentric angular momentum that way.

True ... but unless you live on the Sun, any orbit that takes you that close to it from your starting point will have a very high eccentricity.

Star Trek called that a slingshot. Well, Star Trek also had a planet populated by Nazis. On another planet, they ran into the Greek god Apollo. :lol: And I suspect that if they hadn't called this particular maneuver a "slingshot" -- which it wasn't -- a lot of confusion could have been...

I'm not a hard core Trekkie, and had to look at the page to get the details. "an encounter with a previously-uncharted black star required the crew to utilize all warp power in reverse to break away from the star's powerful gravitational attraction, creating a whiplash effect." OK, so they...

OK, I'm not sure what you're asking for here. By launch windows, do you mean, for example ... 1) "I need to know when Jupiter is in a good position relative to Earth that I can send a craft to it in a way I need" -- whether that's minimal delta-V for the eject from Earth orbit; or maybe...

> I need to know what math courses and concepts are required for learning and understanding celestial/orbital mechanics. To be prepared to study basic, two-body orbital math, I think you could get by with these prerequisites: High school algebra -- solving equations in one variable; occasional...

It sounds like you're getting into orbit, aligning planes, etc. correctly, but let's be sure of that. I'm assuming that since you apparently haven't rendezvoused with anything yet, you're probably trying to get to ISS or Mir with their orbits unaltered from the standard Orbiter distribution...

I've built a few PCs, and here's what I do to check that. Immediately after putting everything together, I'll: 1) Install a copy of Windows. XP or Win7 is fine, and no need to activate it, this is temporary. 2) Install HWMonitor (freeware) on the computer, and start that running. 3) Start...

I've done a little of this myself -- built a few PCs from scratch and worked on several others. I'm far from being an expert; I'm a guy who knows a few things and who has several friends who know less than I do, so I end up being the "go to" guy. Anyway, my comments, for what they're worth...