Hi!
I've been playing around with TransX lately and managed to get some places, but now I'm trying to do a slingshot around Jupiter to lose as much of my Sun-relative velocity as possible and drop down towards the Sun, with a very low perihelion.
I'm guessing that when I got my close approach planned, I should reduce my prograde velocity to fall "under" the orbit of Jupiter, but no joy. Doesn't matter how I try to adjust it, my trajectory seems to leave the solar system.
I expected to be ejected very high up, possibly to Saturn or beyond... but I get ejected from the solar system instead.
Has anyone done this? Is it even possible?
I've been playing around with TransX lately and managed to get some places, but now I'm trying to do a slingshot around Jupiter to lose as much of my Sun-relative velocity as possible and drop down towards the Sun, with a very low perihelion.
I'm guessing that when I got my close approach planned, I should reduce my prograde velocity to fall "under" the orbit of Jupiter, but no joy. Doesn't matter how I try to adjust it, my trajectory seems to leave the solar system.
I expected to be ejected very high up, possibly to Saturn or beyond... but I get ejected from the solar system instead.
Has anyone done this? Is it even possible?