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AVIATR
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AVIATR (Aerial Vehicle for In situ and Airborne Titan Reconnaissance) was a proposed airplane mission concept to Titan, a moon of Saturn. The concept was developed in 2011 by a team of scientists led by Jason W. Barnes at the University of Idaho.[1][2] Compared to Earth, Titan has about one-seventh the gravity but four times the atmospheric density.[3] These conditions make it easier to fly there.[3]
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![]() Artist's rendering of the AVIATR airplane flying over the surface of Titan. | |
Mission type | Titan airplane |
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Operator | originally directed towards NASA Discovery program |
Mission duration | 1 year flying over Titan surface[1] |
Spacecraft properties | |
Power | 254 W Total (2 x 128 W ASRG)[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 2020 (proposed)[2] |
Rocket | Atlas V 521[1] |
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