Uranus Orbiter, The other proposed ice-giant mission |
Uranus Orbiter, The other proposed ice-giant mission |
Nov 11 2005, 05:13 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 2-July 05 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 426 |
Since the Neptune Orbiter thread has started to veer into talking about a Uranus orbiter as well, it seemed like a good idea to start a topic for Uranus.
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Sep 23 2007, 06:11 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I think Neptune and Uranus orbiters are going to require a jump in technology before they become viable as anything other than a big flagship (and I don't think anyone would argue that we don't have enough on our plate in terms of targets for flagship missions already).
Aerocapture, NEP (or a large SEP for inner solar system accell), deep space flight tests Ka band - perhaps with a deployable HGA etc etc. All these things would make orbiters beyond Saturn a lot more achievable I think. Of course, we all want massive spacecraft to go everywhere, tomorrow...but we have to be realistic. Doug |
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