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Scientists Identify Tight Window to Visit Uranus
"Uranus is a fascinating planet that has been lamentably underrated as a target
for exploration, partly because its name is the butt of many jokes. Neptune may have lucked out in the name game, but its enormous distance from Earth also makes it an inconvenient destination for space probes. As a result, Uranus and Neptune are the least explored planets in the solar system, having only ever been visited briefly by NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in the 1980s. But that may change due to the approach of a rare cosmic alignment that is encouraging scientists to send probes back to these lonely gas giants in the outer solar system." See: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z...o-visit-uranus |
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Scientists Identify Tight Window to Visit Uranus
On Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 7:20:28 PM UTC-4, wrote:
"Uranus is a fascinating planet that has been lamentably underrated as a target for exploration, partly because its name is the butt of many jokes. True for both of the pronunciations. Your-anus and Urine-us. Neptune may have lucked out in the name game, but its enormous distance from Earth also makes it an inconvenient destination for space probes. As a result, Uranus and Neptune are the least explored planets in the solar system, having only ever been visited briefly by NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in the 1980s. Same with Pluto. They are -very- far from Earth. Even with the large gravity assists at Jupiter and Saturn, it took 9 years to get to Uranus and 12 years to get to Neptune. 1977 launch, 1986 at Uranus, 1989 at Neptune. |
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Scientists Identify Tight Window to Visit Uranus
On Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 6:41:46 PM UTC-7, Scott Kozel wrote:
Even with the large gravity assists at Jupiter and Saturn, it took 9 years to get to Uranus and 12 years to get to Neptune. 1977 launch, 1986 at Uranus, 1989 at Neptune. Maybe nuclear propulsion can help: "With congressional funding and industry support, nuclear thermal propulsion technology is making progress for potential use on future NASA deep space missions, although how it fits into the agency’s exploration architectures remains uncertain. The House Appropriations Committee approved May 22 a commerce, justice and science (CJS) appropriations bill that offers $22.3 billion for NASA. That funding includes $125 million for nuclear thermal propulsion development within the agency’s space technology program, compared to an administration request for no funding. “The bill’s investment in nuclear thermal propulsion is critical as NASA works towards the design of a flight demonstration by 2024,” said Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), ranking member of the CJS appropriations subcommittee, during that subcommittee’s markup of the bill May 17. He offered similar comments in support of that project at the full committee markup. The $125 million comes on top of $100 million that Congress provided in 2019, of which $70 million was earmarked for a flight demonstration by 2024. The report accompanying the House bill makes no mention of a 2024 date for a flight demonstration, but does call on NASA to develop “a multi-year plan that enables a nuclear thermal propulsion demonstration, including the timeline associated with the space demonstration, and a description of future missions and propulsion and power systems enabled by this capability.”" See: https://spacenews.com/momentum-grows...al-propulsion/ |
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