Alan Stern
Oct 3 2019, 11:14 AM
FYI: Centaurs Rising: NASA Eyes Missions to Weird Asteroid-Comet Hybrids
https://www.space.com/nasa-centaur-missions...us-chimera.html
Explorer1
Oct 3 2019, 12:54 PM
Two very interesting proposals! How large will the solar panels need to be for Centaurus to get enough power out beyond Jupiter?
djellison
Oct 3 2019, 03:47 PM
Probably the size of the arrays for some of the other proposals that have headed out that way on solar power.... ELF, for example -
https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2...15-4603_A1b.pdf
nprev
Oct 8 2019, 03:02 AM
Hmm. Wonder how much the violently active nature of 29P will affect the risk evaluation of Chimera.