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TBF, if it did work, I could almost see Elon going "fuck it" and bumping the next SpaceX launch in favor of boosting a cubesat out there.
by saulrh 9y ago
TBF, if it did work, I could almost see Elon going "fuck it" and bumping the next SpaceX launch in favor of boosting a cubesat out there.
- simonh 9y agoFirst we’d need to have a deep space planetary observation probe with a high dV propulsion system, an RTG and TWTA backed high gain antenna. Chucking a standard cubesat at it would be no more use than launching a washing machine. At this point the probe wouldn’t catch up with it until it’s at least as far away as Voyager is now.