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Europa Clipper: Cubesats But No Nuclear Power

Europa Clipper: Cubesats But No Nuclear Power

Artists Concept: Image CredIt JPL One recurring theme in coverage from Innerspace.net is a lamentation over the lack of any flagship class outer planet mission to follow in the wake of the spectacularly successful Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. While Innerspace is predominately focused on human exploration and settlement, and in particular the contributions being made […]

Posted in: Outer Planets
Detailed NASA Budget Bad News for Europa, Propellant Depot Advocates

Detailed NASA Budget Bad News for Europa, Propellant Depot Advocates

NASA released the particulars of its FY 2015 budget request yesterday, and the 713 page document revealed some disappointing news on two programs with long term implications. The first issue is the very tenuous support for a new outer planets mission to Jupiter’s enigmatic moon, Europa.  Probably second only to Mars in terms of the […]

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