If you don't have an active propulsion system for station keeping then you cannot pick targets. Who wants that? Nobody.
This concept is 50 years off at minimum.
If you don't have an active propulsion system for station keeping then you cannot pick targets. Who wants that? Nobody.
This concept is 50 years off at minimum.
Actual station keeping +- a few meters once out on the gravitational focal line opposite the target system (which itself is moving) would require some cold gas thrusters that would limit the duration of the mission. But the forces and accelerations required are very small when you're 600 AU out from the sun and even the photon pressure isn't throwing things off anymore.
Yes, getting out there with enough mass for station keeping would be hard and it'd require new methods. Either electrostatic solar sails, or a more traditional H-reversal oberth burn close to the sun.