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wongarsuyesterday at 7:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Take decades to catch up to the location of either voyager probe. The probes have be traveling for a long time. They have also taken advantage of a rare planetary alignment that allowed them to visit a lot of planets and get gravity assists from them (converting a tiny portion of the planet's angular momentum into orbital speed for the spacecraft)


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anovikovyesterday at 9:34 PM

Won't ion engines power by something like Kilopower reactor let us do better?

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