http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09409
A coming resurgence of super heavy-lift launch vehicles has precipitated an immense interest in the future of crewed spaceflight and even future colonisation efforts. While it is true that a bright future awaits this sector, driven by commercial ventures and the reignited interest of old space-faring nations, and the joining of new ones, little of this attention has been reserved for the science-centric applications of these launchers. The Arcanum mission is a proposal to use these vehicles to deliver an L-class observatory into a highly eccentric orbit around Neptune, with a wide-ranging suite of science goals and instrumentation tackling Solar System science, planetary science, Kuiper Belt Objects and exoplanet systems.
J. McKevitt, S. Bulla, T. Dixon, et. al.
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Comments: Global Space Exploration Conference 2021, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, 14 – 18 June 2021. Published by the International Astronautical Federation with permission
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