Uranus Orbiter and Probe

The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is the current name for a concept in development for a mission to Uranus launched in the early 2030s, to place a probe in orbit and send a companion probe into the atmosphere. That general launch time takes advantage of a launch window for using a Jupiter gravity assist, a particular window that won't recur for more than a decade. Suggested orbiter instruments:

• Narrow-Angle Camera.
• Thermal Infrared Camera.
• Langmuir Probe and Waves.
• Search coil magnetometer.
• Fast imaging plasma spectrometer.
• Electrostatic analyzers.
• Energetic Charged Particle Detector.
• Visible-Near Infrared Imaging Spectrometer and Wide-angle camera.
• Radio Science Experiment.

Suggested atmosphere probe instruments:

• Double focus mass spectrometer.
• Atmospheric Structure Instrument.
• Ortho-Para H₂ Detector.
• Radio Science Experiment.

The only previous spacecraft to visit Uranus was a 1986 flyby by Voyager 2.