• veroxii@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    They touch upon it in the article but there was a Lemmy comment a while back talking about how hard it really is to send anything to the sun. Because the earth is orbiting the sun anything we launch is also orbiting the sun and you have to add a whole ton of delta v to break out of the orbit.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah I learned this playing Kerbal! It actually requires more energy to send something into the Sun than out of the solar system entirely.