• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Information on the heliopause is about the only useful thing we can get from something out that far. It turns out to be a lot more complex than we thought.

    It seems to me that this would be worth a mission?

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      8 months ago

      It’d be hard to justify a mission on that alone. At least for now. Get space based industry going and then there’s lots of missions that open up.

      New Horizons will get there eventually, and from a brief search, it sounds like it could still get back useful data once it’s out that far. NASA will need to keep the communications line funded, though.