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Flight in the Outer Solar System and Interstellar Travel

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Interstellar travel is the term used for hypothetical piloted or unpiloted travel between stars. Interstellar travel will be much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight; the distances between the planets in the Solar System are less than 30 astronomical units (AU), whereas the distances between stars are typically hundreds of thousands of AU.

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  1. Candida Oancea Institute, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Viorel Badescu

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    Kris Zacny

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Bolonkin, A. (2018). Flight in the Outer Solar System and Interstellar Travel. In: Badescu, V., Zacny, K. (eds) Outer Solar System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73845-1_8

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