Future Planetary Exploration

Jason Perry has a nice summary of the Io white papers at his website: Io Decadal Survey White Paper . There are actually two white papers, ...

For some months now, a group of planetary scientists have been promoting a mission called Argo that would launch a flyby spacecraft (thi...

Many of the Decadal Survey White Papers focus on specific missions or area of scientific investigation. However, missions can fly and condu...

Emily Lakdawalla has a great post on the asteroid and nearby (up to 10 light years) brown dwarfs science that the WISE infrared satellite wi...

Given the tight budgets for planetary exploration, I worry that large flagship missions to the outer planets may never fly. The current str...