ScienceCraft for Outer Planet Exploration (SCOPE)

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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)

Artist’s depiction of ScienceCraft, which integrates the science instrument with the spacecraft by printing a quantum dot spectrometer directly on the solar sail to form a monolithic, lightweight structure.

Mahmooda Sultana

Mahmooda Sultana
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions to the outer solar system are an important part of NASA’s goals because these scarcely visited worlds...