Software to ease my interstellar travel calculations

When I asked my previous question about love on multi generation ship, I left blank the where are the people going. Simply because I do not know.

Now I am in search of software which would ease some calculations.

Example: Say the ship is travelling to a system which is 35 light years away. The basic math tells me, that if I want to be here in 600 years, I have to travel 0.06c on average for the whole time (hopefully I did not mess even the basics :) )

But the thing is, such ship will probably spend some time accelerating and then braking.

Being lazy person, I am in search of software which would allow me to enter these variables and calculate time to travel:

• How far (in lightyears) am I travelling
• What is the fastest speed I want to achieve during travel (fraction of light speed)
• How heavy the ship is
• How long do I want to accelerate and brake

Is there such software I could use?

P.S.: As of the engines and/or rockets pushing the ship to movement, I feel like hand-waving this and make them from unobtainium.

posted almost 9 years ago

Pavel Janicek‭

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