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Please tell me this mission ends with the Venera/Cassini treatment of "let's drop the sucker into the atmosphere and see how long it lasts"
by Pxtl 5y ago
Please tell me this mission ends with the Venera/Cassini treatment of "let's drop the sucker into the atmosphere and see how long it lasts"
- thehappypm 5y agoIt’s not possible sadly. In order to crash into the sun you’d need to get out of orbit, counter-intuitively. The orbital speeds here are crazy high so the spacecraft would need either a gigantic amount of gravity assists or a gigantic rocket.
- perihelions 5y agoInconveniently, the sun is a loud radio emitter, so it isn't possible to communicate with this probe when it's at a low phase angle with the sun.