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Trident. (spacecraft) 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. In 2020, Trident was selected along with three other Discovery proposals for further study, with two expected to be ...
Mar 25, 2019 · NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed on Tuesday at a conference in Texas to send a spacecraft called "Trident" to Triton - with the goal of sussing out whether it's a habitable world. Rather than spending billions of dollars, the proposed spacecraft called Trident aims to keep costs low - roughly the "price of a small mission to the moon ...
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Texas in Space. For 60 years, NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas has served as an international hub for human space exploration and an inspiration to people across the world. This legacy of success has carried forward to the 21st century, where Johnson Space Center is playing leading roles in missions to the Moon, Mars, and ...
Jun 16, 2020 · A new mission competing for selection under NASA’s Discovery Program aims to untangle these mysteries. Called Trident, like the three-pronged spear carried by the ancient Roman sea god Neptune, the team is one of four that is developing concept studies for new missions. Up to two will be selected by summer 2021 to become a full-fledged ...
Feb 27, 2023 · Mission designers for Trident chose a simpler, brute force approach: they would equip the spacecraft with a bunch of inexpensive batteries that would be slowly charged by the two MMRTGs. During the Triton flyby, all the instruments would run off batteries, and they would not have to be specially designed for very low power operations, thereby controlling costs.
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Feb 11, 2015 · The Johnson Space Center was established in 1961 as the Manned Spacecraft Center, the home and Mission Control Center for the U.S. human space flight program. In 1973, it was renamed in honor of the late President, and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson. The Johnson Center’s $1.5 billion complex occupies 1,620 acres southeast of downtown Houston ...
