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Enceladus Orbilander

(concept for a NASA mission to Enceladus)

Enceladus Orbilander is a proposed major NASA mission (Large Strategic Science Mission aka Flagship Mission) that would launch a probe in the late 2030s to reach Saturn in the 2040s and then orbit Enceladus (one of Saturn's moons) in the early 2050s, collecting data from its plumes for a year, followed by landing on its surface to gather more data.


(Saturn,spacecraft,NASA,concept,astrobiology,life)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_Orbilander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_strategic_science_missions
https://astrobiology.com/2025/04/enceladus-orbilander-flagship-mission.html
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2425
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AsBio..22..685M/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025LPICo3090.1076N/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021PSJ.....2...77M/abstract
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20205008712
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210014731
https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/enceladus-orbilander-short.pdf
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/opag2020fall/presentations/MacKenzie_6019.pdf
https://www.planetary.org/articles/meet-orbilander-enceladus-mission

Referenced by page:
Saturn

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