Measuring long distances?

I am doing a constant thrust acceleration to that black hole star system. I need to flip around exactly halfway through my journey and decelerate the rest of the way. Since I’m currently moving at millions of meters per second, I want to be as precise as possible to save on fuel. Does anyone know how exactly I can measure distances at that scale?

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u/NormalEscape8976 — 19 days ago

The Hail Mary and the Blip A

People have done this for the book designs a million times already but I much prefer the way they look in the movie. I couldn’t find any good models for the Blip A so I made my own.

3d modeled, printed, painted and cut everything myself! The lab is removable via magnets

I do plan to motorize it eventually, but I don’t have those parts right now

Roughly 1:2000 scale to real life.
(11.3 ly -> 30b miles, 0.92c -> 500x Mach)

u/NormalEscape8976 — 2 months ago