{"id":138539,"date":"2022-04-24T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musks-spacex-could-probe-uranus-on-nasas-flagship-mission"},"modified":"2022-04-24T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:02:20","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-could-probe-uranus-on-nasas-flagship-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musks-spacex-could-probe-uranus-on-nasas-flagship-mission","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX could probe Uranus on NASA\u2019s flagship mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musks-spacex-could-probe-uranus-on-nasas-flagship-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could SpaceX be heading to Uranus next? The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine seems to think it should. The organization has released its latest decadal survey of planetary science and astrobiology. <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-falcon-heavy-uranus-mission-decadal-survey\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">According to a report<\/a> by <em>Teslarati<\/em> published on Wednesday, the survey hints that NASA should undertake a flagship mission to Uranus on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Uranus Orbiter and Probe<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The mission is not entirely new. Called the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/probe-uranus-flagship-mission\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/probe-uranus-flagship-mission\">Uranus Orbiter and Probe<\/a> (UOP), the proposal has been under work for several years by a team that includes scientists from NASA, the University of California, and Johns Hopkins University. Now, with SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket, the researchers feel they have the technology to make their long-held dream a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could SpaceX be heading to Uranus next? The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine seems to think it should. The organization has released its latest decadal survey of planetary science and astrobiology. According to a report by Teslarati published on Wednesday, the survey hints that NASA should undertake a flagship mission to Uranus on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,2019,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-elon-musk","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}