Comment Re:Upwards? (Score 1) 152
Yes I meant to say (at least I was thinking) the last slingshot wouldn't need to gain momentum, just change the trajectory - the momentum being gained from any previous encounters.
If this is a telescope then you don't necessarily want extra momentum just a change in trajectory out of the plane of the ecliptic - although the timescales involved even this wouldn't add to much when you think how far both Voyagers have got since they were launched. Even they are power starved now so any telescope out there wouldn't last as long.
As for parallax observing the other issue there would be the time to wait for a full baseline observation of a specific object - would the instrument still be in operation when the second observation is to be made? Possible but again it's down to power consumption