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Feb 27, 2023 · The spacecraft would launch in 2025, arriving at Triton in 2038. It would fly a unique trajectory first identified by Nitin Arora. Trident would go past Venus—using its high gain antenna as a thermal shield—and fly past Earth twice, then head past Jupiter in 2032, bending its orbit to head towards Neptune.
Jun 16, 2020 · The spacecraft would use the gravitational pull of Jupiter as a slingshot straight to Triton for an extended 13-day encounter in 2038. “The mission designers and navigators are so good at this,” said JPL’s William Frazier, project systems engineer of Trident.
Jun 16, 2020 · Most of what we know of the moon came from Voyager 2 data, but we've only seen 40% of the moon's surface. Trident would map most of the remainder. And Trident would use its full-frame imaging camera to capture the same plume-rich area Voyager 2 imaged - in full "Neptune-shine," when the Sun's reflected light illuminates the dark side of Triton.
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Trident is a space mission concept to the outer planets proposed in 2019 to NASA's Discovery Program. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The concept includes flybys of Jupiter and Neptune with a focus on Neptune's largest moon Triton .
Mar 7, 2020 · Trident carries a mature complement of instruments: a Magnetometer, IR Spectrometer & Narrow Angle Camera, Wide-Angle Camera, Plasma Spectrometer, and telecom hardware-enabled Radio Science. The flight system design integrates heritage components from Ball with JPL leadership and expertise in key specialty areas to provide a Voyager-like, robust spacecraft commensurate with a Discovery cost ...
Jun 18, 2020 · NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched in 1977 to study the outer planets. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to have flown past Neptune, the most distant planet in the solar system. The mission ...
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Mar 29, 2019 · Trident won’t need the broad solar arrays that many space missions use. Instead, it will use a radioisotope thermoelectric generator , or RTG, which taps nuclear decay for power and heating.
