A popular animation showing Project Lyra with a Solar Oberth of 10 Solar Radii (SR) away from the Sun's centre.
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Adam Hibberd
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Adam Hibberd
@hibberdadam994
I developed software to study missions to the planets and used it to research trajectories to Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua. I am also a pianist/composer.
Coventry, England
Joined August 2014
- Replying to @tony873004Thanks for this Tony, an alternative animation is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=95NR7w… Also note there are alternative trajectories for Project Lyra, like exploiting a Jupiter Oberth Manoeuvre (with no exceedingly hot perihelion), go here: researchgate.net/profile/Adam-H…
- Thanks Tony for your animation: x.com/tony873004/sta… For more on Project Lyra visit @I4Interstellar and also visit our website at i4is.org. Fianlly go to my blog here: i4is.org/blog/Project Lyra explores the possibility of sending a spacecraft to chase 'Oumuamua using an Earth gravity assist to reach Jupiter, which robs the craft of almost all its speed, causing it to drop to the Sun for an Oberth maneuver. Thanks @hibberdadam994 for the trajectory data!
GIF - Replying to @eterevsky and @tony873004This would be a 'fryby' of the Sun. The Interstellar Probe people at JHU have studied a Solar Oberth at 3 Solar Radii (SR), for their concept study. PL would have a higher perihelion of 6 SR. PSP will get down to around 10SR, I calculate PL has a solar flux 3 x higher than PSP.
- A mission to an asteroid which is permanently within the orbit of Venus, ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim, as solved and animated by my softwre development, OITS (Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software): youtube.com/watch?v=poL8QI…
00:00 - Replying to @elonmusk and @leometricGo to the animation here: x.com/tony873004/sta… I am the astrodynamicist for Project Lyra and work for i4is.org who conducted the research for this project. @I4InterstellarProject Lyra explores the possibility of sending a spacecraft to chase 'Oumuamua using an Earth gravity assist to reach Jupiter, which robs the craft of almost all its speed, causing it to drop to the Sun for an Oberth maneuver. Thanks @hibberdadam994 for the trajectory data!GIF
- Replying to @hibberdadam994That is a higher perihelion than for the nominal mission scenario (which reaches 6 SR), yet is around the same perihelion distance as the NASA Parker Solar Probe will reach, with the same top speed also.
- Project Lyra with closest approach to sun of 10 SR (Solar Radii) youtu.be/Nys-IQTKEnE?si… via @YouTube
- For anyone interested in #ProjectLyra and would like to find more out about my software development OITS (Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software). A simplifed guide is provided for you in this Principium issue:
- Replying to @hibberdadam994Thus exactly the same heat shield technology (a Carbon-Carbon composite material) can be utilised.
- Replying to @hibberdadam994That kink after the Jupiter encounter ensures the subsequent perihelion reached by the probe is on the other side of the Sun from Jupiter, allowing the necessary alignment of the Solar Oberth burn to accelerate the craft to 'Oumuamua.
- For those fo you interested in Project Lyra animations, do go to my friend Justin's animation of the Solar Oberth option here: oits3d.justinhui.com/#/animation/aH…
- Replying to @EnergiaRocket and @tony873004Don't be alarmed, observe that Z-axis scale.
- I was just returning to my discovery concerning 'Oumuamua's orbit which has NOT been widely publicised and indeed I think is not widely known. But let me start from what IS known, see below.
