Preparing for .18 IPT: Jool's Slingshot Effect

[dikkjo]

Since 0.17 is out, we can start planning the next generation interplanetary travels

As I was refining my approach to Jool, i've got this hypothetical slingshot with an astonishing apoapsis at 262 Gigameters:

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I did not try to get it further away, since that was not really my plan...

Only 6 years and 197 days to get there.....I wonder how much is that IRL at max timewarp

[Rainbow Dash]

Uhhhhhhhh.... i still have trouble with getting to Jool.

[cocomoe1002]

Ive gotten to Jool and it has taken Jeb Bill and Bob 3 years so 6 years to get there, i might be misleading this but what did u do?

[cocomoe1002]

Ive gotten to Jool and it has taken Jeb Bill and Bob 3 years so 6 years to get there, i might be misleading this but what did u do?

Also they never returned.... they got stranded on Laythe

[dikkjo]

oh i never came back either, i had the bright idea to use jool's atmosphere for aerobreaking my way to laythe...but i couldn't escape jool anymore, so i've lost the 3 kerbals and my sat which was supposed to map Laythe for kethane mining sites preparing future landings too bad my quicksave was still on the launchpad

[Grizzlol]

I accidentally did this with my ship and it went on an escape trajectory out of the sun's orbit.