It could be even faster if you built a craft that could orbit inside the lithosphere!
Interestingly enough, you don't find many natural orbital systems faster than a few hours. The closest binary stars have periods of greater than ~3 hours, as do the closest asteroid satellites...
Interestingly enough, you don't find many natural orbital systems faster than a few hours.
So, is it easy to vary the thrust force in chemical rockets? How does that change the propellant flow rate? If I halve the thrust, does the propellant flow rate halve too?
Bizzarre minds need great accuracy. I'm there with that. Great answer. Two more points for Jim! Hufflepuff?
Google interplanetary superhighway and/or low energy transfers. That'll get you fairly layman, or at least technical generalist, answers. Here's a Discover article that says Lunar Observer could have saved 25% of its fuel and 30% for a generic mission.http://discovermagazine.com/1994/sep/gravitysrim419/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C=
“You have to lose 600 miles per second of velocity to get off the Earth orbit and allow the spacecraft to be captured by the moon’s gravity,”