/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15671324
>so that we can get new pictures of neptune without waiting 20 years
Only one hope for that

>>15232389
ahem

>>15162449
>Can visit any object in the solar system on a yearly basis
>Cheap, rapidly scalable
>only thing that makes flybys worth it (because they can all happen so fast after launch)
>multiple probes sent at once to each moon armed with simple color cameras
>flyby of each moon from multiple vantage points to image all hemispheres and poles in one year
>cameras only need to last for 1 year max (out to Eris, Sedna) so can be duplicated for redundancy and be cheaper nearly off the shelf
>the ingenuity drone of planetary space probes
>can do daring follow up missions closer to points of interest found on previous flybys with probes armed with specific instruments
>initial goal is to just get high res imagery of every moon and finally see the hidden side of Triton
>any classical dedicated probe headed to a moon for detailed examination just deploys one for extra free acceleration cutting down travel time to no more than 2 years max to any moon of interest and can maybe even use it to reach multiple moons from a single probe - revolutionizing and speeding up planetary exploration

Plasma magnetic sail can revolutionize everything.... it just has to work

>>15130569
And by boom I mean a pole that extends out of the main bus to give it room to deploy fully (its a big boy)