Interplanetary Superhighway

Posted on July 12, 2007 by the_duck |
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Move over slow poke!

“The Interplanetary Superhighway is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the solar system that require very little energy for an object to follow.
Each planet and moon has five locations in space called Lagrange points, where one body’s gravity balances another’s. Spacecraft can orbit there while burning very little fuel. The Interplanetary Superhighway maps out some possible flight paths among the Lagrange points, varying the distance the spacecraft would go and how fast or slow it would travel. Like threads twisted together to form a rope, the possible flight paths formed tubes in space.”

Read more about it here: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_147.html





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3 Responses to “Interplanetary Superhighway”

  1. El_Chupachichis on July 12th, 2007 6:46 pm

    The Interplanetary Superhighway is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck.
    It’s a series of tubes.

  2. jasonp on July 13th, 2007 1:51 am

    Haha, El_Chupachichis won this thread…

  3. Kaze on July 13th, 2007 10:53 am

    http://www.bigideafun.com/peng.....om_funnel/

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