The Problem
A mission to Pluto is a very rare opportunity and event. It took New Horizon (NH) 8 years to travel 7.8 billions km to reach Pluto. To get there as in the shortest time, NH had to accelerate to a speed of 58,536 km/h, which is 100 times faster than a jetliner. The tradeoff of reaching that speed is that NH could not carry fuel to slow down to land on Pluto. So the mission was designed to be only a flyby gathering data as it flashes by the planet. There is no easy solution to overcome that so I have come up with a theatrical ideas that may solve this problem. This is just an idea and I have not calculated anything.
Solution
The craft is made of four part that rotate at high speed. The main machine that rotates the craft is placed in the middle (Fig. 1 #1). There are two probes attached to a long beam or wire (Fig. 1 #4). One probe is designed to carryout the flyby tasks (Fig. 1 #3) and the other is the landing probe (Fig.1 #2). If it is possible the device will accelerates the rotation to max when about to reach Pluto. At that time the landing probe will be released exactly in the opposite direction of the rotation (Fig. 2). That should reduce the speed and enable the craft to slow down enough to land using the known techniques.
The middle section (Fig. 1 #1) can be designed in such a way that it stays stationary while the beam rotates at high speed in the same way as helicopter blades rotation does not rotate the body.
If this is possible at all, then it could also be used to decelerate the spacecrafts orbiting Earth making it much safer to deorbit.
