Travel times

>I have a MegaTraveller Question that frankly has be baffled.  I was computing
>orbital periods and distances between the Gas Giant and main worlds.  I was
>trying to compute the travel time between the gas giant and the main world.

>The net distance if the worlds were at their
>closest would be 5,804 Million KM - 418.9 (round to 419) Million KM or
>5,386 Million KM.

>Ok now to change gears for a second.  If a 1G vessel takes  8 hours to >move
>from a size 8 world to 100 diameters, that would imply a mean vessel >speed of
>100,000 miles/hour (Size 8 world = 8,000 mile diameter * 100 diameters =
>800,000 miles / 8 hours = 100,000 miles)  Or 160,000 KM/hour. Now I know that
>acceleration is constant to the mid point, thus the ship can achieve higher
>velocities, however there must be a maximum velocity where the thrust can
>no longer accelerate the craft.

>The travel time, if we assume a max speed of 160,000 km/h would be about 3365
>hours or about 140 days.

These computations are fine except there is no maximum velocity where the thrust
can no longer accelerate the craft. There is no resistance to slow it down, so
any
thrust will be used to accelerate our spaceship. Using those formulas it takes
 733,893 seconds to get to the gas giant. 203 hrs or 8 1/2 days. The maximum
velocity is:3.6 million m/s or 13 million kph (1.22% of the speed of light.)
This is incedibly fast but not out of reason for the drives used. (this is for a
1G
ship a 6G ship would take 4/10ths as long and be going 6x as fast at midpoint.)
I hope this helps a little. In system travel can take a long time. Space is BIG.
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