This paper presents the results of a mission design study for NASA of the next Saturn mission to follow Voyager. The Saturn Orbiter Dual Probe (SO2P) mission combines three spacecraft - a Saturn orbiter, a Saturn probe, and a Titan probe/lander - into a multipurpose Saturn exploration package. The mission is to conduct a survey from orbit around Saturn and to physically probe bodies in the Saturnian system, the first such mission to do so. The mission has many possible options including: combining solar electric propulsion with earth gravity assist, assembling of IUS stages in orbit, and aerocapture at Titan to insert into Saturn orbit.
The Saturn Orbiter Dual Probe mission concept
American Astronautical Society and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Astrodynamics Specialist Conference ; 1979 ; Provincetown, MA
1979-06-01
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