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Nature 408, 510-512 (30 November 2000) | doi:10.1038/35046259
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- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch
- Galveston, TX United States
To the planets on a shoestring
Robert Adler1
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Abstract
Small space probes can thumb a ride into space and then hurl themselves around the Solar System using orbital gymnastics — meaning that you no longer need bottomless pockets to do planetary science. Robert Adler talks to the thrifty engineers who are making it happen.
'Faster, better, cheaper' was NASA's catchphrase for most of the 1990s. But cheaper has come to seem like a false economy.
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