Timeline for Why are probes that tend to explore outer system always launched to go outwards instead of straight upwards or downwards?
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| Jan 5, 2019 at 12:04 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | Indeed challenging! A paper on chasing 'Oumuamua. Notice the the extreme manoeuvering on page 9. Out to Jupiter, swing around to basically fall into the Sun, make extra close flyby and light a heavy booster at perihelion. Then it's outwards and "upwards" to get the cigar and possibly collapsed alien light sail. (Although it it really is a light sail, it would be the dropped deceleration sail and the real fun will start in 100+ y or so when the actual payload arrives. Where is Larry Niven?) | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 17:41 | comment | added | Hobbes | at 26 km/s, Oumuamua is going to be difficult to catch up with current technology. | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 17:39 | comment | added | gerrit | One very interesting target outside the ecliptic is ʻOumuamua. | |
| Jan 4, 2019 at 10:34 | history | edited | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 20:18 | comment | added | Hobbes | A bit, but not much, I'd expect. You do a gravity assist at Jupiter, then use Saturn to aim the probe out of the ecliptic. | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 17:47 | comment | added | Ellesedil | Is it really just objects of interest? Would it not be more difficult to send a probe along the axis perpendicular to the elliptical plane? | |
| Jan 3, 2019 at 16:21 | history | edited | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2019 at 15:56 | history | answered | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |