On 25 May 2016 at 10:13, Craig Berry wrote:

>
> Whoops, they actually miss dinner, but they're home in time for a
> midnight snack. :) Actual profile:
>
> 3 hrs boosting outbound cargo.
> 3 hrs coming roughly to rest relative to origin world, but quite far
> away. 3 hrs accelerating to rendezvous with inbound cargo. 3 hrs
> decelerating cargo into orbit around origin world.
>
> So 12 hours total.

Not necessarily. It's likely more efficient to do it as:

3 hours to boost outgoing cargo.

?? hours to match vector with incoming. No need to come to rest with
respect to the planet, just with respect to the incoming cargo.

3 hours to match orbit with the planet.

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