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cyberaxyesterday at 5:37 PM1 replyview on HN

The orbital velocity at this distance is around 1 km/s, so you can fairly trivially (compared to anything else) zero it out. Then you can just hover in place, the solar gravity acceleration at this range is in _microns_ per second squared.

For all intents and purposes, you'll be in the interstellar space.


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hparadizyesterday at 5:46 PM

In order to get something there fast enough it would be traveling out very fast. Getting something there to orbit I think is not realistic for us any time soon.

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