The book/movie depicts Rich Purnell using some NASA/JPL supercomputers to verify his calculations.
Knowing nothing (or less than nothing if thats possible) about Celestial Mechanics, considering that the technique (gravitational assist/slinghsot maneauver???) was used in space probes as early as the 1970s, how much computing power would be needed to do these calculations?
I guess the faster the computing resources, the earlier you would get your solutions. But are these calculations that could be done on more run of the mill computing hardware?
Knowing nothing (or less than nothing if thats possible) about Celestial Mechanics, considering that the technique (gravitational assist/slinghsot maneauver???) was used in space probes as early as the 1970s, how much computing power would be needed to do these calculations?
I guess the faster the computing resources, the earlier you would get your solutions. But are these calculations that could be done on more run of the mill computing hardware?