Timeline for Would it have been possible to instead keep New Horizons with Pluto? [duplicate]
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 15, 2015 at 15:36 | comment | added | Ezra Bailey | New Horizons is going really fast. In order to get into orbit, it would need to go much much slower. Slowing down requires energy, and producing that energy would require a lot of fuel which the probe does not have enough of. | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 8:27 | history | closed |
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Duplicate of Requirements to orbit Pluto | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 8:23 | comment | added | Hobbes | A mission to orbit Pluto would have been massively more expensive. See this related question: space.stackexchange.com/questions/9851/… | |
| Jul 15, 2015 at 8:17 | history | asked | Mikey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |