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Researchers suggest an ion engine could get a telescope to the Solar Gravitational Len point 81 billion kms from Earth in 13 years, and thus allow high resolution imaging of nearby exoplanets. (phys.org)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For comparison, Voyager 1 is almost 24.8 billion km away from Earth right now and has been traveling since 1977 (near on 50 years).

Haven’t read the article yet, but if the headline is anything to go by, very cool if it can be done.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why even publish that? You're not going to get better performance than the already unproven existing nuclear-electric systems any time soon.