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 early 2050s, then orbit the moon,
Enceladus, collecting data from its plumes, 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://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021PSJ.....2...77M/abstract
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20205008712
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210014731
https://smd-cms.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/enceladus-orbilander.pdf
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