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Originally Posted by JonClarke
There is no reason why non-cycler craft haave to be to be single mission.
Approach velocities for Earth and Mars can be extremely high with cyclers, of the order of 12 km/s at Mars and 11 km/s at Earth over and above minimum energy transfer approach speeds. Include these and martian escape velocity means that total approach velocities for Mars and Earth would be of the order of 19 and 22 km/s in the worst case scenario. This is the price of using the intrinscially inefficient orbits required by cyclers. http://www.troymcconaghy.com/storage/AIAA_2002-4420.pdf
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So? Just use either longer tethers to keep the G's low, or immersed technologies to allow the high G's. I don't know what the optimization point might be for such a maneuver, but my gut answer is somewhere around 17 G's, which can be done without chloroflourocarbins.
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