McKevitt, James;
Bulla, Sophie;
Dixon, Tom;
Criscola, Franco;
Parkinson-Swift, Jonathan;
Bornberg, Christina;
Singh, Jaspreet;
... Heinreichsberger, Carina; + view all
(2021)
An L-class multirole observatory and science platform for Neptune.
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Proceedings of the Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX).
(pp. pp. 1-14).
International Astronautical Federation (IAF): St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
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Abstract
A coming resurgence of super heavy-lift launch vehicles has precipitated an immense interest in the future of crewed spaceflight and even future colonisation efforts. While it is true that a bright future awaits this sector, driven by commercial ventures and the reignited interest of old space-faring nations, and the joining of new ones, little of this attention has been reserved for the science-centric applications of these launchers. The Arcanum mission is a proposal to use these vehicles to deliver an L-class observatory into a highly eccentric orbit around Neptune, with a wideranging suite of science goals and instrumentation tackling Solar System science, planetary science, Kuiper Belt Objects and exoplanet systems.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | An L-class multirole observatory and science platform for Neptune |
| Event: | Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX-21) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://iafastro.directory/iac/browse/GLEX-2021/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Neptune, Triton, KBO, Starship |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204190 |
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