Destination Uranus! Rare chance to reach ice giants excites scientists |
Destination Uranus! Rare chance to reach ice giants excites scientists |
Mar 8 2020, 11:47 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 17-March 16 Member No.: 7915 |
News article in Nature about an upcoming launch window in the 2030s for Uranus and Neptune (no paywall):
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00619-y |
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Mar 13 2020, 05:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1583 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
The current 'Outer Planets' SNAFU is really tempering my enthusiasm here:
https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreie...ry-science.html And I'll leave it at that for the longstanding pro-harmony reasons of this forum, but I just want the few readers here to be aware. |
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Mar 14 2020, 04:19 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
The current 'Outer Planets' SNAFU is really tempering my enthusiasm here: https://www.planetary.org/blogs/casey-dreie...ry-science.html And I'll leave it at that for the longstanding pro-harmony reasons of this forum, but I just want the few readers here to be aware. Both the John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and JPL are working to define New Frontiers-class Uranus orbiters. The abstracts don't mention whether or not an atmospheric probe could be included. The key is the attempt to drastically reduce the orbiter cost. APL concept JPL concept -------------------- |
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