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Another prompt courtesy of shower thoughts and my personal sci-fi continuity:

In the future, a girl is hired by a space exploration agency to become a probe to survey a new star system. Her body undergoes major alterations including the removal of all four limbs and the replacement of several organs with mechanical substitutes. Her body is made airtight, radiation-proof, and self-contained for long space voyages. On her limb stumps are placed antennae, magnetometers, solar arrays, and other instruments, and one of her eyes is replaced with a multispectral camera.
She is launched naked into space on a slingshot trajectory past several planets, with only tiny maneuvering thrusters for tweaking her heading. Much of her time is spent in hibernation, and when not busy collecting data she whiles away her days with things like video conferences.
At the end she might be picked up by a mothership, or she might be abandoned to drift forever in the void and eventually die after her internal life support's reserve power runs out. If she does get picked up, perhaps she gets sent on more probe missions or repurposed as a spy satellite.
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