It doesn't need a return trip to transmit the data (it's not like it's going to collect rocks on the surface or anything lol). I'm pretty sure the plan is to crash it spectacularly, after we have received all the data.
"NASA to Make Announcement About First Mission to Touch Sun"
"in orbit within four million miles of the suns surface"
PraiseThey should call it the Solaire.
Icarus never actually touches the sun.
This would be the equivalent of naming the first FTL spaceship "Titanic"
A fair few I'd imagine. I don't think we have viable engine tech to cancel out a large enough amount of Earth's Orbital velocity of 30 km/s (I think you'd need to target around 21 km/s). So you'd have to do some maneuvering out to Jupiter and back to get to the sun.
EDIT: According to the mission report it's going to take about 6 years, going out to Jupiter, then using Venus to increase the eccentricity of the orbit around the sun until it gets to within 4 million miles.
It's supposed then become the fastest moving man-made object, traveling at 200 km/s. Wow!
A fair few I'd imagine. I don't think we have viable engine tech to cancel out a large enough amount of Earth's Orbital velocity of 30 km/s (I think you'd need to target around 21 km/s). So you'd have to do some maneuvering out to Jupiter and back to get to the sun.
EDIT: According to the mission report it's going to take about 6 years, going out to Jupiter, then using Venus to increase the eccentricity of the orbit around the sun until it gets to within 4 million miles.
It's supposed then become the fastest moving man-made object, traveling at 200 km/s. Wow!
Wait woah hold on, can you explain more about why we can't go "in" directly towards the sun and instead have to go "out" to Jupiter first?
How the hell did they not call this Icarus?
They should orbit at night when it's not as hot.
Off topic but if there was a theoretical giant who had a small fish (for him) to grill, would he rather use a large grown Earth fire to get that crispy texture or the radioactive sun to keep it evenly warm?
so the closest the probe will be from the sun is 4'000'000 miles?
is sound like it would still be too far from it but an anstronomical unit is 93'000'000 (distance between the sun and earth) so that's pretty damn near.
how can it withstand the heat?
Geostationary on the dark-side should do it. Tricky to pull off though.They should orbit at night when it's not as hot.
They should orbit at night when it's not as hot.
A fair few I'd imagine. I don't think we have viable engine tech to cancel out a large enough amount of Earth's Orbital velocity of 30 km/s (I think you'd need to target around 21 km/s). So you'd have to do some maneuvering out to Jupiter and back to get to the sun.
EDIT: According to the mission report it's going to take about 6 years, going out to Jupiter, then using Venus to increase the eccentricity of the orbit around the sun until it gets to within 4 million miles.
It's supposed then become the fastest moving man-made object, traveling at 200 km/s. Wow!
Crumpled gold mylar foil works surprisingly good for withstanding radiant heat, and steel can be tempered through dystektic alloying, i'm guessing they'll also use a shadow-facing graphite or aluminium radiator to dump the heat made by the power source and the equipment package.
Jupiter?
How many years will it take to get to the sun?
I was wondering how Jupiter would fit in all of this. My first thought was using Venus but I don't know jack shit about this so I thought I was wrong.Jupiter?
Wait woah hold on, can you explain more about why we can't go "in" directly towards the sun and instead have to go "out" to Jupiter first?
Wait woah hold on, can you explain more about why we can't go "in" directly towards the sun and instead have to go "out" to Jupiter first?
LmaoThey should orbit at night when it's not as hot.