Adam Hibberd
My quest to number-crunch the Mars (Aldrin) Cycler is progressing with every iteration of my software adding more and more encounters, be they Earth or Mars, each adding weight to the calculations.
For instance look at the plot below.
There are a full 80 encounters (horizontal axis) with the cumulative thrust DeltaV plotted on the vertical axis.
A least-squares fit to this yields a straight line with gradient equal to 528.18 m/s per encounter.
This gives an estimate of what would be needed of this Mars Cycler over a long period of time, if the Cycler is to be mantained.
