News Archive / Tagged: orbiter
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Study of Pluto’s subsurface ocean drives potential return mission
Laurel KornfeldMarch 12th, 2022A $3 billion return mission to Pluto with an orbiter is being proposed to further study the subsurface oceans of both Pluto and its large moon Charon.
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NASA funds study of possible Pluto orbiter
Laurel KornfeldNovember 4th, 2019There's no doubt that NASA's New Horizons mission crushed it. This has emboldened the space agency to take their exploration of the far reaches of our solar system to the next level.