NASA Considers Sending Telescope To the Outer Solar System

But there are no survey craft headed in that direction. This sounds like they want to piggyback off some other project.

Plus, you may be able to gather significant radial velocity due to planetary orbits and gravitational slingshots, while acquiring velocity perpendicular to the orbital plane may mainly rely on thrusters, which would be expensive.

Main point being: time is not the problem, expense (in US$) is.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/XpZ3mTq24tU/nasa-considers-sending-telescope-to-the-outer-solar-system

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