>>13870262sadly newspace has no profit incentive to bother creating exploratory probes or landers, even in a super advanced future where companies are doing a space gold rush, the only objects they're gonna bother sending probes to survey are various minor bodies they want to potentially mine.
as slow and inefficient as oldspace is, its actually trying to learn more about the universe just for the sake of it. even if the cost of a launch goes down to a dollar, and travel time halves, somebody still has to put a probe together and manage the mission. and sadly, newspace has no reason to.
the best potential future for it is that newspace starts producing probes on the cheap for national space agencies like NASA and the ESA, then launch using their own systems. time and cost could be vastly reduced to the point where a new major mission is launched every year, as the much cheaper missions would allow agencies to greenlight far more projects, and the much faster newspace timetables would get them pumped out relatively quickly.
if that is the future that comes to be, we could literally have like 10 simultaneous missions on and around a bunch of different bodies at once, with multiple missions en route and multiple projects under construction, all at the same time. sadly, this is too good of a future so i foresee some bullshit fucking it up. theoretically, there's no reason it couldn't work, 20/30 years or so from now.
