In 2012, however, the Mare Explorer was passed over for funding (in favor of a probe that will land on Mars and study its interior next year) .Still, we could explore Titan’s seas yet. Last month, NASA announced the concept of sending a submarine to Titan instead. At this point, it...
A submarine on Titan would open up the lakes and rivers of liquid methane and ethane that cover the cloudy Saturn moon to exploration. In a NASA video of the Titan Sub mission concept, the robotic submarine sails the Kraken Mare, the largest northern sea on Titan. That alien sea is nearly...
NASA intended to play a role in building and testing the carbon fiber hull. But the COVID-19 pandemic prevented NASA from fulfilling its role, other than consulting on a one-third scale mockup, not the submersible Titan that imploded while ...
didn’t realize that the time would come when America would wish it still had the power of that giant for bringing the heaviest satellites into space. The most powerful American rocket in use today, Lockheed Martin’s Titan 4B, can’t even handle afifthof the payload that the ...
Price said Orion should help set the stage for an outpost in lunar orbit that will serve as the jumping-off point for Mars and other solar system destinations. “With a new president and the ability to ‘architect’ what the exploration architecture should be, the moon is a very important ...