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Old November 19th, 2021 #1
Ray Allan
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With Voyagers 1 and 2 set to run out of power in approximately a decade, NASA is considering a follow-up interstellar probe that could last 50 to 100 years.

The space agency asked a team of scientists and engineers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) to explore a possible $1.5 billion mission to study the interstellar medium or region of space between the Sun and the closest nearby stars. Such a mission would require the involvement of multiple generations of scientists and engineers.

A report by the JHUAPL group complete with spacecraft design is expected to be released in several weeks.

Launched in 1977, both Voyagers remain active in spite of the fact that they were designed to operate for five years. Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from Earth while Voyager 2 is more than 11 billion miles away.

. . . The new probe, which would launch around 2036 and travel twice as fast as Voyager 1, would use technology that already exists or is in an advanced state of development.

"We do need to learn how to conduct missions over these very long timescales if we are ever going to come close to achieving any of the aspirations of interstellar exploration that are so often posed in the popular media," said Stella Ocker, a graduate student at Cornell University who uses Voyager data in her research.
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/o...ager-missions/
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Old November 19th, 2021 #2
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One option for speeding up the probe is to have it conduct a gravity assist flyby of a dwarf planet in the outer solar system. This would provide the opportunity to study that particular dwarf planet up close.
I hope they do a flyby of Eris. It's the most massive and second largest planet in the Kuiper Belt.

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Old November 19th, 2021 #3
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Perhaps the probe will determine if Planet Nine really exists. Or if a small black hole is actually lurking at the edge of our solar system. Just don't fall into it and be transported to the far side of the galaxy to V'ger's planet. Wait a second, that was a movie.
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