Talk:Rich Purnell Maneuver/@comment-32215502-20170606052946

Cross-posting from Rich Purnell, where there was some confusion. But I thought it belonged here.

I just ran across a NASA paper, analyzing the "Rich Purnell" maneuver. It's really clear and easy to read, with some nice plots of the orbital trajectories.

Upshot: It would work. Andy Weir did the math, and did it right.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20150019662.pdf