Travel to infinity and beyond

To comply with security and airline protocol, air travelers should arrive at the airport well in advance of their flight. Without realizing the probability of adverse conditions at the time of the scheduled departure, they may experience inconvenient delays at the airport. Delays can be short and relatively easy to manage, or they can cause long hours of waiting in crowded airports. Flight delays can even cause forced overnight stays at local hotels or inside the terminal. Travelers could benefit from knowing the likelihood of a delay as it could help them prepare for the wait time. Can an app be developed that predicts the impact of weather on airplane departure times?

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Travel to infinity and beyond

Introduction

Topic: Transport via solar winds to inter planetary transport gateway and beyond

Start: Earth

Finish: Any planet but initially Mars

This will be a phone application where you input your start point and end point which will work out the optimum journey direction and time. Initially we will look at a journey to Mars but will expand to further planets going forward. We are assuming that we are able to use solar or beam driven sails

When we are trying to arbitrate the journey to Mars from Earth at its simplest we must be aware that we would need to understand when the optimum period for the Earth and Mars are aligned.

This may give us the shortest distance but not the safest optimum journey.

The first consideration is the safest journey so we need to understand the risk profile so for instance sun induced dangers like solar flares or potential stationary dangers. This information would be used between our source and destination to therefore provide an enhanced experience.

The approach would be modular and as better sources become available, better transport and a greater understanding of dangers would improve the accuracy of the application. The application would connect to all data sources and use these to improve the results so we will build on existing information and data sources and by integrating these together will provide us something greater than the sum of the components.

Considerations include but are not limited to solar winds, solar flares, interplanetary transport network, and gravitational assist, electromagnetic factors.

Uses

The information has scope to be included as part of planetary journey planning, simulation and leisure activities.

Road Map

Build a prototype with using Earth to Mar rotational only. Ensure MMI is aesthetically pleasing

Add in Sun solar calendar and add additional Planet or Moon

Add in Solar winds and add additional Planet or Moon

Add in Gravity assist concepts and add additional Planet or Moon

Add in Electromagnetic dangers and add additional Planet or Moon

Add in solar system stationary objects and add additional Planet or Moon

Add in Interplanetary Transport Network and add additional Planet or Moon

Information Check List

Start – Earth

End – Mars

Can we use a Gravity SLINGSHOT assist ?

Yes

Increase

Or

Decrease

No

Can we use solar wind ?

Yes

Increase

North Sun

Or

South Sun

Or

Decrease

Centre Sun

Can we use interplanetary transport network ?

Yes

Where

No

Data requirements

DATA ON THE BITS THAT WE NEED, WE NEED TO KNOW IF WE HAVE ANY MAPS ON SOLAR WINDS, WE NEED TO KNOW IF WE HAVE ANY SOLAR WINDS. WE ALSO NEED TO CONSIDER THE FORCES. LIKE GRAVITY AND FRICTION and their relation to time. Information on SOLAR FLARES. GRAVITY. COSMIC RAYS. RADIATION. PREDICT WHEN THERE IS EXTRA RADIATION OR SOLAR FLARES.

Capture the speed, density and direction of the solar winds.

Finish Mars