Odyssey addresses Neptune system-level science, with equal priorities placed on Neptune, its rings, moons, space environment, and Triton. Triton is a captured dwarf planet from the Kuiper Belt, twin of Pluto, and likely ocean world. This bold mission of exploration would orbit an ice-giant planet to study the planet, its rings, small satellites, space environment, and the planet-sized moon Triton. Odyssey's mission would end by conducting a Cassini-like "Grand Finale,"passing inside the rings and ultimately taking a final great plunge into Neptune's atmosphere.Ībstract = "The Neptune Odyssey mission concept is a Flagship-class orbiter and atmospheric probe to the Neptune-Triton system. The atmospheric entry probe would descend in ~37 minutes to the 10 bar pressure level in Neptune's atmosphere just before Odyssey's orbit-insertion engine burn. Odyssey would orbit Neptune retrograde (prograde with respect to Triton), using the moon's gravity to shape the orbital tour and allow coverage of Triton, Neptune, and the space environment.
#NEPTUNE ORBITER UPGRADE#
Our solution provides annual launch opportunities and allows for an easy upgrade to the shorter (12 yr) cruise. The spacecraft - in a class equivalent to the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft - would launch by 2031 on a Space Launch System or equivalent launch vehicle and utilize a Jupiter gravity assist for a 12 yr cruise to Neptune and a 4 yr prime orbital mission alternatively a launch after 2031 would have a 16 yr direct-to-Neptune cruise phase.
Between Uranus and Neptune, the latter is unique in providing simultaneous access to both an ice giant and a Kuiper Belt dwarf planet.
The Neptune Odyssey mission concept is a Flagship-class orbiter and atmospheric probe to the Neptune-Triton system. Feldman, Gary Allen, Dinesh Prabhu, Soumya Dutta, Cindy Young, Joseph Williams Show 53 others Show less Stevenson, Seth Kijewski, Weilun Cheng, Jay D. Martin, Marzia Parisi, Mike Norkus, Noam Izenberg, Robert Stough, Ron J. Roberts, Jeremy Rehm, Kelvin Murray, Larry Wolfarth, Leigh N. Turtle, George Clark, Jacob Wilkes, Jack Hunt, James H. Cochrane, Curt Gantz, Dan Rodriguez, Dan Gallagher, Dana Hurley, Doug Crowley, Elizabeth Abel, Elena Provornikova, Elizabeth P. Alex Patthoff, Christopher Scott, Christian Campo, Christopher Krupiarz, Corey J. Moran, Andrew Annex, Paul Schenk, Martin Ozimek, Juan Arrieta, Ralph L. Fortney, Janet Vertesi, Candy Hansen, Imke De Pater, Carol Paty, Thomas Spilker Tom Stallard, George B. Alan Stern, Tracy Becker, Matthew Hedman, Ian Cohen, Frank Crary, Jonathan J. Soderlund, Kunio Sayanagi, Mark Hofstadter, Lynnae C.
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