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Poll: which?
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Manned mission to Mars
17.65%
3 17.65%
Submarine to the oceans on Europa
17.65%
3 17.65%
Orbiters to Uranus and/or Neptune
5.88%
1 5.88%
Robotic lander on Titan and submarine for it's methane lakes
0%
0 0%
Base on the Moon
29.41%
5 29.41%
Array of telescopes for even better search of exoplanets
0%
0 0%
Something else
17.65%
3 17.65%
Nothing cuz I don't give a hoot
11.76%
2 11.76%
Total 17 vote(s) 100%
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Which space mission would you choose?
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RE: Which space mission would you choose?
There are a couple of very interesting Uranus orbiter mission designs that have been proposed.

One utilizes a similar technique employed with the Galileo Jupiter mission where a close flyby with a specific geometry of a given moon on one orbit deflects the probe to another or same moon on the next orbit for another very close flyby, which can be designed to send it to yet another target.

It turns out the Uranus system is scaled very closely in sizes/masses/distances to the Jupiter system, and a very similar mission can be flown there. The science payoff would be considerable with numerous flybys, and the mission design is very frugal with maneuvering fuel so the potential of having an active orbiter at Uranus for a significantly long period of time is very exciting.
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Which space mission would you choose? - by Fake Messiah - March 24, 2017 at 11:47 am
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Jesster - March 24, 2017 at 12:01 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Alex K - March 24, 2017 at 12:09 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Brian37 - March 24, 2017 at 12:44 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Minimalist - March 24, 2017 at 12:54 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by brewer - March 24, 2017 at 12:54 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by vorlon13 - March 24, 2017 at 12:58 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by vorlon13 - March 24, 2017 at 1:51 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by vorlon13 - March 24, 2017 at 9:22 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Minimalist - March 24, 2017 at 11:37 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Iroscato - March 25, 2017 at 12:26 am
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Mr Greene - March 25, 2017 at 11:04 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by vorlon13 - March 25, 2017 at 11:55 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by chimp3 - March 26, 2017 at 8:16 am
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by paulpablo - March 26, 2017 at 7:59 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Athene - March 26, 2017 at 10:44 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by Rev. Rye - March 26, 2017 at 11:43 pm
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by dyresand - March 29, 2017 at 10:17 am
RE: Which space mission would you choose? - by dyresand - March 29, 2017 at 4:50 pm

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