The original post: /r/askscience by /u/Kyell on 2024-10-09 05:34:05.

The idea and question is really about the feasibility of creating a solar highway and who knows maybe more. Essentially what we would do is capture large asteroids and put them on a continuous loop that would go around earth and then back to mars for example. We set up 20 of them or whatever and then to travel to mars you don’t have to fly all the way there you just fly up and latch on to the asteroid that’s coming by every month or two. They could be dug out and essentially be giant ships. The question part is this even mathematically possible to have an object get in this kind of orbit? Is it possible to go up and catch it without many issues? Is it too hard to slow down on approach? Thanks!