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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 ...
Mar 19, 2019 · Neptune and its moons were last visited in 1989 during a brief flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which took Earth’s first and only close images of the solar system’s eighth planet.. Voyager 2 ...
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 ...
Apr 30, 2019 · Trident space mission to study Triton, Neptune’s Biggest Moon. – News of April 30, 2019 –. The outer planets of the solar system are still almost unexplored. Uranus and Neptune in particular have been stealthily flown over by the Voyager 2 space probe. A new orbiter could be sent around one of these two worlds.
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 .
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Trident was one of the four Discovery-class Step-1 mission proposals selected by NASA in 2020 for further development and study; however, in 2021, the Step-2 proposal was not down-selected to transition into the next phase of mission development, i.e., a mission for flight.Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, was the primary focus of study for Trident.
