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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Mission type | Titan orbiter |
| Operator | NASA |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Manufacturer | Lockheed Martin |
| Solar array manufacturer | Orbital ATK |
| Mission management | NASA / JPL |
| Start of mission | |
| Expected flight time | 10 years |
| Science operations | 4 years |
| Instruments | |
| Mass Spectrometer | |
| Infrared Camera | |
| Radar Altimeter | |
| Radio Science | |
| New Frontiers Program | |
Oceanus is a NASA/JPL orbiter mission concept proposed in 2017 for the New Frontiers mission #4, but it was not selected for development. If selected at some future opportunity, Oceanus would travel to Saturn's moon Titan to assess its habitability.[1] Studying Titan would help understand the early Earth and exoplanets which orbit other stars. The mission is named after Oceanus, the Greek god of oceans.
- ^ Sotin, C., Hayes, A., Malaska, M., Nimmo, F., Trainer, M. D., Tortora, P.. (2017). "OCEANUS: A New Frontiers orbiter to study Titan’s potential habitability." 19th EGU General Assembly, EGU2017, proceedings from the conference held 23–28 April 2017 in Vienna, Austria., p.10958