The fact that it's 2021, we can build fully autonomous vehicles, and we're not sending them to every interesting spot in the solar system is one of the many frustrations that together fill up my day.https://news.arizona.edu/story/methane-plumes-saturns-moon-enceladus-possible-signs-life …
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It cost less than $1B to launch and operate New Horizons to Pluto. Cassini cost $3B. Artemis (launching space dads to the moon) is going to cost at least $85B minimum. For that budget we could search for life on Titan, Europa, Enceladus, Ganymede, and a half dozen other places
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People who aren't space nerds may not realize how little is in the pipeline. There is basically nothing going past Mars, and launch windows are closing. I wish one of our billionaires would become obsessed with Jovian moons instead of sending his sagging body to float overhead
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Pretty sure I've seen mentions of modifying the Starlink bus for a probe and packing Starships full of them to fling towards the outer planets.
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