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How infeasible is a Kuiper Belt equivalent of Dawn
Tom Womack
post Nov 25 2008, 01:41 PM
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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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post Feb 22 2010, 11:49 AM
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At least Pluto orbiter is possible.
Some informations here:
http://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/doc/MAD/pub/ACT...neerAnomaly.pdf


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- Tom Womack   How infeasible is a Kuiper Belt equivalent of Dawn   Nov 25 2008, 01:41 PM
- - Fran Ontanaya   (warning: ignorant speculation) A "Huygens li...   Nov 25 2008, 02:29 PM
- - Rob Pinnegar   It's possible that it could be done with curre...   Nov 26 2008, 01:29 AM
|- - xtruel   What seems far more realistic to me is a fly-by mi...   Jan 14 2009, 04:43 PM
- - 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
|- - abbath   QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 22 2010, 12:36 PM)...   Feb 22 2010, 01:03 PM
- - 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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