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>> No.12645677 [View]
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OP here. Have been researching this. Apparently you need a ton of dV to get near the Sun, but it is doable with gravity assist, and there are two nice recent missions doing this.
Pic related is the Parker Solar Probe, launched by NASA/APL in 2018.

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>>12431491
fuckin based
>And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo
>Every day you meet quite a few
>So you see it's all up to you
>You can be better than you are
>You could be swingin' on a star

>> No.11892312 [View]
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so what are we going to learn from the solar probe?

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