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Size: 1327
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Size: 1327
Comment:
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Extracting Materials from Titan
Titan is (im)practically inaccessible. High delta V to get there and come back. Long round travel times.
Humans and their machines may someday occupy the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Titan's nitrogen atmosphere is a candidate source of reaction mass for thermal rockets, but Titan is a long way from Earth, and longer way (in travel time and Hohmann semimajor axis) from the asteroid belts.
Some numbers:
Astronomical Unit |
1.496e11 meters |
average earth orbit radius |
Earth year |
3.1557e7 seconds |
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Solar Gravitational Constant |
1.3271e20 m³/s² |
Planets & |
Orbit |
Period |
Velocity |
Escape |
Asteroids |
Radius AU |
Years |
km/s |
km/s |
| Expected "%" after "5", got "" circular approximation |
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Earth |
1.0 |
1.0 |
29.79 |
11.2 |
Mars |
1.524 |
1.881 |
24.13 |
5.03 |
Vesta |
2.362 |
3.630 |
19.34 |
0.36 |
1 Ceres |
2.769 |
4.608 |
17.91 |
0.51 |
10 Hygiea |
3.142 |
5.568 |
16.76 |
0.21 |
Jupiter |
5.204 |
11.86 |
13.07 |
59.5 |
Saturn |
9.583 |
29.46 |
9.68 |
35.5 |
( circular approximation )