How infeasible is a Kuiper Belt equivalent of Dawn

How infeasible is a Kuiper Belt equivalent of Dawn

Tom Womack View Member Profile	Nov 25 2008, 01:41 PM Post #1
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 3-January 07 Member No.: 1551	I presume that it is completely infeasible without a very powerful nuclear reactor and many years' production of ion engines to do anything remotely like Dawn in the Kuiper belt - the distances are just too long. Is it in fact feasible with current technology even to get a probe into orbit around Haumea or Makemake? I'd suspect not, that the speed you need to get it out to the Kuiper belt in a lifetime is much too great to cancel down to orbital velocity.

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Tom Womack How infeasible is a Kuiper Belt equivalent of Dawn Nov 25 2008, 01:41 PM

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abbath it should be quite unfeasible to power the probe a... Feb 22 2010, 11:32 AM

djellison New Horizons is expected to reach, and be fully fu... Feb 22 2010, 11:36 AM

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machi At least Pluto orbiter is possible. Some informati... Feb 22 2010, 11:49 AM

Greg Hullender QUOTE (machi @ Feb 22 2010, 03:49 AM) At ... Feb 23 2010, 05:04 AM

abbath Here's a publication I just found on a propose... Feb 22 2010, 01:10 PM

Greg Hullender Yup. Here's the thread where we're talking... Feb 23 2010, 04:59 AM

machi No. Some informations about this mission are in th... Feb 23 2010, 09:00 AM

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