A new study may suggest a new way for us to approach space travel in the future. Humanity has long dreamed of exploring the final frontier, the space beyond our own, where planets like Mars, Jupiter, and even planets we’ve only seen with telescopes would somehow be within reach. But, two things have always held us back, the distance from our planet to those and the time it would take to cross it.
Now, though, engineers and scientists may have come up with a way to speed up space travel exponentially. This could then make it possible to travel to planets like Jupiter in just a matter of months. The researchers proposed the idea in a new paper they published inA fictional spacecraft approaches the Moon. Image source: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith
The idea behind the new space travel method is called dynamic soaring and it builds off of the same mechanics used by seabirds to fly. Basically, the system works by creating lift by extracting power in the direction of the medium blowing over the spacecraft. This will create an accelerating flow in a perpendicular direction.
It’s really a very complex thought, and one that the researchers explain a lot better in their paper. But, the main thing to take into account here is that it would open the door for much faster space travel, something that we’ve all been trying to figure out additional ways to improve.
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