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Re:ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jup... by TaylorAlexander on Friday April 14, 2023 @07:05PM (#35575993)
I think the very big rocket planned for launch in a few days will, if successful, help a lot with this. Chemical rockets aren't the best but if we can launch much larger payloads, we can design deep space rockets that consume a lot more fuel to get there faster. Imagine a multi stage rocket which is assembled in orbit from multiple Starship launches, and then blasts off to the outer worlds.
Re:ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jup... by mdorazio on Friday April 14, 2023 @09:32PM (#35576845)
I don't think you would need to assemble anything in space. Starship's planned LEO payload is about a third of the entire mass of the Ariane 5 rocket that launched Juice. If you have that kind of mass budget at orbit, your delta v capability is pretty massive for a space probe.