Published September 27, 2012
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Journal article
OSS (Outer Solar System): A fundamental and planetary physics mission to Neptune, Triton and the Kuiper Belt
Creators
- Christophe, Bruno
- Spilker, Linda J.
- Anderson, John D.
- André, Nicolas
- Asmar, Sami W.
- Aurnou, Jonathan
- Banfield, Don
- Barucci, Antonella
- Bertolami, Orfeu
- Bingham, Robert
- Brown, Patrick
- Cecconi, Baptiste
- Courty, Jean-Michel
- Dittus, Hansjörg
- Fletcher, Leigh N.
- Foulon, Bernard
- Francisco, Frederico
- Gil, Paulo J. S.
- Glassmeier, Karl-Heinz
- Grundy, Will
- Hansen, Candice
- Helbert, Jörn
- Helled, Ravit
- Hussmann, Hauke
- Lamine, Brahim
- Lämmerzahl, Claus
- Lamy, Laurent
- Lenoir, Benjamin
- Levy, Agnès
- Orton, Glenn
- Páramos, Jorge
- Poncy, Joël
- Postberg, Frank
- Progrebenko, Sergei V.
- Reh, Kim R.
- Reynaud, Serge
- Robert, Clélia
- Samain, Etienne
- Saur, Joachim
- Sayanagi, Kunio M.
- Schmitz, Nicole
- Selig, Hanns
- Sohl, Frank
- Spilker, Thomas R.
- Srama, Ralf
- Stephan, Katrin
- Touboul, Pierre
- Wolf, Peter
Contributors
Others:
- ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Châtillon] ; ONERA-Université Paris Saclay (COmUE)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) ; NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)
- Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements (CESR) ; Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA) ; Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Departamento de Física e Astronomia [Porto] (DFA/FCUP) ; Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (FCUP) ; Universidade do Porto = University of Porto-Universidade do Porto = University of Porto
- STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) ; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Imperial College London
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB (Jussieu)) ; Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS) ; École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (IST)
- DLR Institute of Planetary Research ; German Aerospace Center (DLR)
- Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) ; Universität Bremen
- Géoazur (GEOAZUR 6526) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais - Systèmes de Référence Temps-Espace (LNE - SYRTE) ; Systèmes de Référence Temps Espace (SYRTE) ; Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris ; Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Description
The present OSS mission continues a long and bright tradition by associating the communities of fundamental physics and planetary sciences in a single mission with ambitious goals in both domains. OSS is an M-class mission to explore the Neptune system almost half a century after flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Several discoveries were made by Voyager 2, including the Great Dark Spot (which has now disappeared) and Triton's geysers. Voyager 2 revealed the dynamics of Neptune's atmosphere and found four rings and evidence of ring arcs above Neptune. Benefiting from a greatly improved instrumentation, it will result in a striking advance in the study of the farthest planet of the Solar System. Furthermore, OSS will provide a unique opportunity to visit a selected Kuiper Belt object subsequent to the passage of the Neptunian system. It will consolidate the hypothesis of the origin of Triton as a KBO captured by Neptune, and improve our knowledge on the formation of the Solar system. The probe will embark instruments allowing precise tracking of the probe during cruise. It allows to perform the best controlled experiment for testing, in deep space, the General Relativity, on which is based all the models of Solar system formation. OSS is proposed as an international cooperation between ESA and NASA, giving the capability for ESA to launch an M-class mission towards the farthest planet of the Solar system, and to a Kuiper Belt object. The proposed mission profile would allow to deliver a 500 kg class spacecraft. The design of the probe is mainly constrained by the deep space gravity test in order to minimise the perturbation of the accelerometer measurement.
Abstract
40 pages, 9 figures Submitted to Experimental Astronomy, Special Issue Cosmic VisionAbstract
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Identifiers
- URL
- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00598209
- URN
- urn:oai:HAL:hal-00598209v1