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Futurologist to FuturologyEnglish · 7 months ago

Researchers suggest an ion engine could get a telescope to the Solar Gravitational Len point 81 billion kms from Earth in 13 years, and thus allow high resolution imaging of nearby exoplanets.

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Researchers suggest an ion engine could get a telescope to the Solar Gravitational Len point 81 billion kms from Earth in 13 years, and thus allow high resolution imaging of nearby exoplanets.

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Futurologist to FuturologyEnglish · 7 months ago
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Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years, suggests paper
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Sending an object to another star is still the stuff of science fiction. But some concrete missions could get us at least part way there. These "interstellar precursor missions" include a trip to the solar gravitational lens point at 550 AU from the sun—farther than any artificial object has ever been, including Voyager.
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    7 months ago

    That would be amazing

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