Kuiper-Belt-Entry (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Kuiper-Belt-Entry

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This figure depicts an electric propulsion spacecraft leaving Pluto orbit, flying by other small Kuiper Belt objects and then reaching the dwarf planet 2002 MS4 as just one example of the "gold standard" Pluto orbiter-Kuiper Belt explorer mission discovered by the SwRI study team.

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Image Courtesy of Southwest Research Institute

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