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The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is an orbiter mission concept to study Uranus and its moons. [1] The orbiter would also deploy an atmospheric probe to characterize Uranus's atmosphere . The concept is being developed as a potential large strategic science mission for NASA .
Uranus and its six largest moons compared at their proper relative sizes and relative positions. From left to right: Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon The orbiter science phase would consist of the Uranus Science Orbit (USO) phase of approximately 2 years in a highly elliptic polar orbit to provide best gravimetry data, during which 36 Uranus orbits are performed.
In 2022, the Uranus orbiter and probe mission (the latest design of which was released in June 2021) was placed as the highest priority for a NASA Flagship mission by the 2023–2032 Planetary Science Decadal Survey, ahead of the Enceladus Orbilander and the ongoing Mars Sample Return program, due to the lack of knowledge about ice giants. [27]
An image of the planet Uranus taken by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. New research using data from the mission shows a solar wind event took place during the flyby, leading to a mystery ...
The planetary decadal survey recommended the first dedicated Uranus Orbiter and Probe as the next large NASA mission. After launching as soon as the early 2030s, the proposed spacecraft would ...
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986. ... Its unusual tilt makes Uranus appear to orbit the sun like a rolling ...
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
One spacecraft, Voyager 2, also visited Uranus and Neptune. The nine missions include two, Ulysses and New Horizons , whose primary objectives were not outer planets, but which flew past Jupiter to gain gravity assists en route to a polar orbit around the Sun ( Ulysses ), and to Pluto ( New Horizons ).