JDStartTransfer:

Path: Orbit/Interplanetary

% Find the Julian Date for a straight line trajectory to the target
 Starts at jD0. You specify the [departure target] planets using JPL
 ids, where 1 = Mercury and 9 = Pluto. jD0 may be a Julian day number or date
 array:

   [year month day hour minute second]

 Type JDStartTransfer for a demo.
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   Form:
   jDS = JDStartTransfer( jD0, planetPair, transferTime, duration, n )
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   Inputs
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   jD0           (1,1) Julian date to start computation or date array
   planetPair    (1,2) Planets [departure target]
   transferTime  (1,1) Duration of the transfer (years)
   duration      (1,1) Duration of the study (years)
   n             (1,1) Number of steps

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   Outputs
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   jDD           (1,1) Departure date

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Children:

Common: Time/Date2JD
Math: Linear/Unit
SC: Ephem/PlanetPosJPL
SC: Visualization/HelioPlot

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