>>11680675>What you're doing is designing a spacecraft that only require half of the DeltaV than a spacecraft that would try to make a straight shot from Earth to Mars.So it can only go half as fast.
>With the refueling strategy, you design a spacecraft that has enough DeltaV to haul ass and accelerate/decelerate to the fueling station where you refuel and repeat the process from the fueling station to mars.Except it can only go half as fast. Do you know what delta V even is?
>So now, instead of put put putting your way to Mars at an acceleration of 0.01-0.1 g with coasting sessions.We don't do that, nobody is doing that. Any chemically powered mission to Mars burns at ~1 to 4 G's for about ten minutes, then coasts at high speed for 4 to 6 months, then either propulsively slows down to capture or aero-brakes in Mars' atmosphere to capture.
>You're accelerating/decelerating constantly at half g from Earth to the station, refueling, then hauling ass again straight to MarsCongrats, every station needs to be 10 minutes apart and your maximum velocity is far less than a simple straight-shot to Mars. You have no understanding of how motion works in orbit, dude.
Your car analogy is flawed. Let me fix it; Imagine you have two cars, one has a top speed twice as high as the other. You're going to drive across the country, but something's different; there's no fucking friction when you aren't running your engine, so you don't slow down. The faster car accelerates to 400 km/h and coasts. The slower car accelerates to 200 km/h, then decelerates, refuels, and accelerates again, over and over, only just reaching a top speed of 200 km/h every time before slowing back down to refuel. Which one makes it across the country first? The one that's coasting at double the maximum velocity of the other, dummy.
