did i forget to tell you about this

pioneer 11’s trajectory will always be one of the most impressive to me because of just how sharp its turn at jupiter was
like MESSENGER and Voyager 2 are the most technically impressive, but Pioneer 11 is just. Cool!!

They simply should’ve launched a relay satellite into a polar solar orbit to relay the data.. i cannot believe they didnt do this .. <- being intentionally obtuse

yayyy thank you

analyze me :3

Is there an RCS system that could work as a slower thrust provider?

I’m sure theres a trajectory using just Io or Io and Ganymede that’ll work. I’m just not sure how to calculate it! I can do the first Io encounter but after that I’ve just not got the programs

I think the best option is a small burn at Apojove to set up one or multiple flybys at Io/Europa/Ganymede that could then slingshot the spacecraft out to 3I/ATLAS! This could use as little as 200m/s of delta v, maybe even down to 100m/s if done properly, which is much more realistic and doable !

Like i said, you’ve got to use Galilean Moon flybys to achieve the flyby with a workable amount of delta v ! a few well timed Ionian or Europan flybys with a relatively small impulse and you’re there !

I couldn’t find anything conclusively saying that so i was choosing to be optimistic 😅 emailed the juno team about the possibility of a flyby a few weeks ago and they said they were looking into it thought which was cool

im going insane bcos i started to talk abt this a month ago ,, 2.75km/s is crazy tho 😭 it does NOT have that much fuel left !! youve gotta do lunar slingshots to Hope to have a chance ,,,