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For example, how long would it take in a shuttle, assuming you were propelled along the way by an Ion engine?
If anyone needs to know the distance, assume 4.2 AU. At most it could be 6.2, but I’m assuming best-case-scenario.
If anyone could give me lowest and highest possible answers, that’d be great.
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How long is a piece of string? It depends on how powerful the ion engines are.
Also your distance estimate is wrong. You can’t simply travel there in a straight line. The Earth, Jupiter and the shuttle are all orbiting Sun during the journey. The “direct” route between them would actually follow a curved trajectory.
Update: Asad completely misses the point. Of course you can predict where Jupiter is going to be, indeed this is essential to be able to get the shuttle in the right place. The shuttle in in its own orbit of the Sun and that needs to be factored in as well. For instance, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voyager_Path.jpg , this is the path taken by the Voyager probes. Notice the curved paths between the planets. This is not because NASA did not know where the planets would be on arrival, but because the probe continues its orbit around the Sun even as it moves away from it, resulting in the curved trajectory.
yes you can travel in a straight line to jupiter from earth. you would have to predict the jupiter’s position according to ur trip time.
so when u ll leave earth in that straight line direction, jupiter wont be there, but as u moving, jupiter will keep orbiting. there fore u ll land on jupiter when it orbits at front of you.