Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens

Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by sp332 on Thursday July 28, 2022 @10:48AM (#32265077)

For this mission, you don't need to slow down or stop. Just keep taking image data starting at 548 AU and keep going until you're at 900 AU.

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by Cerium on Thursday July 28, 2022 @10:59AM (#32265250)

I thought you have to move laterally to get the pixels? "The data are acquired pixel-by-pixel while moving an imaging spacecraft within the image."

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Re:Mission to reach and operate at the focal region of the s... by samus on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:14PM (#32268170)

You can already do that while slowing down. Might require some image correction though to account for that in the pictures.

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