‘Voyager on steroids.’ Mission would probe region beyond our Solar System
I would hope we actively plan for much cheaper launches with Starship coming online. It seems like we can do many more projects, at lower cost and higher risk than before, because launch costs are low.Instead of $1-$10B projects focus on things <$100M. Or at least focus on platforms to enable cheap probes without so much customization. It should be possible to pull off things like this soon without even government funding. Just buy a stock probe with some modifications and launch it cheaply in a direction you want.