Weekly Space Report: Future Missions Reviews, Previews, & Speculation

SCANALYZER The Happening World
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Marcus is traveling, so no proper news today.

Highlights:

  • Mercury: BepiColombo

  • Psyche!

  • Jupiter: Icy Moons Explorer “JUICE”. With a bunch of flybys of other planets.

  • Jupiter: Europa Clipper. (Falcon Heavy’s impulse will have it overtake JUICE).

  • Saturn: Titan DragonFly

  • Mars: Moons Explorer “MMX” with sample return

  • Venus: Veritas. (Upgrade of still operating Maven mission.) DaVinci

  • Earth: Near Earth Orbit Surveyor for dangerous meteors/asteroids/other potential Earth impactors

  • Luna: Ice Mining, Polar Rover, and more.

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Water transport from Europa to the inner solar system might be accomplished with something like the cis-lunar momentum exchange systems, but with an exponentially increasing flow. The outward bound mass would not be as massive as the inward bound mass, so the outward bound mass could be nothing but water tanks and additional momentum exchangers (eg tethers).

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