This mission to deep space could last a lifetime â or even more
Bob McDonald's blog: Planning a mission to be handed off to future generations represents wonderful foresight in science
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Bob McDonald's blog: The wonderful scientific foresight in planning a mission to extend far into the future
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 11:52 AM ET | Last Updated: April 30
The Interstellar Probe would travel far beyond the influence of our Sun.(Johns Hopkins APL)
An international team of scientists is planning a mission to interplanetary space that will take 50 years to complete. It will become a multi-generational project.
A team at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which flew the New Horizons probe to Pluto in 2015, is collaborating with the European Sciences Union to design a mission called Interstellar Probe that will reach out beyond the heliosphere of the sun.