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Comment Re:Trajectory Math (Score 1) 373

by astrojeff on Monday August 15, 2005 @08:08PM (#13326492) Attached to: The Mathematics of a Trip to Mars?

I wrote a bare-bones applet that lets you try to get to Mars. Very crude, but it manages the momentum correctly and does illustrate that launch windows and transfer orbits are tricky. http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~jwp/astro/OrbitApplet.htm l

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