> If it's infeasible to slow down to get into orbit or land on Pluto, what about the feasibility of designing a probe to impact Pluto at XX km/sec and survive w

> If it's infeasible to slow down to get into orbit or land on Pluto, what about the feasibility of designing a probe to impact Pluto at XX km/sec and survive well enough to send back data That's actually harder to do. To insert in orbit, you can still have some residual speed, you don't have to slow all the way down. To land on the surface and survive, you would have to brake even harder. Anything near orbital speed would be a non-survivable impact, even for hardened electronics. Not to mention interactions with the atmosphere on the way down.