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Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna – Nuclear propulsion and solar sailing

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200 points speckx | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 14:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.217s | source
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stevenAthompson ◴[02 Jul 25 01:46 UTC] No.44439565[source]▶
Why dont they just launch a string of hundreds or thousands of tiny mesh probes out of a canon over a longer period of months or years? They dont need to be powerful if you have a big mesh network and each probe would only need to cost about what a cell phone does.
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1. pdabbadabba ◴[02 Jul 25 03:06 UTC] No.44439913[source]▶
> Why dont they just launch a string of hundreds or thousands of tiny mesh probes out of a canon over a longer period of months or years?

The word 'just' is doing a whole lot of work in that sentence!