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Halley's Comet orbiter
Tom Womack
post Feb 2 2015, 04:02 PM
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How hard is it (in delta-V terms) to launch a probe into orbit around Halley's Comet?

The orbit is obviously very eccentric; also inclined and retrograde. From the example of Ulysses, a suitable Jupiter flyby can put you into an orbit which is inclined, retrograde, and with aphelion at Jupiter, but I have no idea how hard it is then to raise aphelion and lower perihelion to match the comet.

It sounds the sort of thing that an orbit-designer would have done as an example at some stage, but I can't immediately find it on the Web.
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dmuller
post Feb 3 2015, 02:27 PM
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Stumbled over this, although Halley and the 2060s arent quite in there (yet?)
http://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/index.php


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- Tom Womack   Halley's Comet orbiter   Feb 2 2015, 04:02 PM
- - Explorer1   I checked on this once, but most of the stuff abou...   Feb 2 2015, 05:05 PM
- - Paolo   I remember reading a few papers published in the 6...   Feb 2 2015, 06:05 PM
- - tasp   It didn't progress very far, but there was som...   Feb 2 2015, 06:19 PM
- - elakdawalla   Indeed, and Lou Friedman has been trying to get a ...   Feb 2 2015, 06:35 PM
- - K-P   QUOTE (Tom Womack @ Feb 2 2015, 06:02 PM)...   Feb 2 2015, 06:41 PM
- - Explorer1   A famous comet, an opportunity to compare and cont...   Feb 2 2015, 06:47 PM
|- - SFJCody   Rather than Halley, I think it would be a good ide...   Feb 2 2015, 07:20 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (SFJCody @ Feb 2 2015, 07:20 PM) I ...   Feb 2 2015, 08:52 PM
|- - Gerald   QUOTE (ngunn @ Feb 2 2015, 09:52 PM) ... ...   Feb 3 2015, 02:46 PM
- - djellison   We already designed, built and launched such a mis...   Feb 2 2015, 10:03 PM
|- - SFJCody   QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 3 2015, 09:03 AM) ...   Feb 3 2015, 05:44 PM
- - dmuller   Stumbled over this, although Halley and the 2060s ...   Feb 3 2015, 02:27 PM
- - Paolo   two extracts from my series of books on solar syst...   Feb 3 2015, 06:06 PM

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