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Re:NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying by creer on Saturday November 30, 2024 @01:56PM (#42283294)
Speed is not necessarily the correct lever it might affect. A probe with much larger antenna, with much larger or multiple radioactive power sources, with much more solar panels, with much more onboard fuel, etc could be much more useful with the same speed.
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Re:NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying by ragebol on Saturday November 30, 2024 @02:54PM (#42283611)
More mass means more fuel means more speed?
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Re:NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying by ben_w on Saturday November 30, 2024 @03:03PM (#42283675)
More fuel may mean longer duration missions rather than getting to the destination faster.

Or the same duration mission with a more massive payload that can both do more and report more.

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