Argo (spacecraft)

Triton's south pole in 1989

Argo is a spacecraft mission concept by NASA to the outer planets and beyond.^[1] The concept includes flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and a Kuiper belt object.^[1] A focus on Neptune and its largest moon Triton would help plug a predicted 50-year-gap in exploration of the Neptunian system, and help answer some of the questions generated by Voyager 2's flyby in the 1980s.^[1]

This mission was grounded because NASA didn't have enough Plutonium to power all of its spacecraft.^[2]

References

External links

• Future Planetary Exploration - Argo
• Neptune Science with Argo - A Voyage through the Outer Solar System

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