When will Nasa send a space probe to Uranus (No Toilet Humor Answer, Please)?

Question

Hmm No Further plan to Probe Uranus from NASA.

Answer 1

As others have said, Voyager 2 went there already, and NASA has no plan to send another. I guess it isn't interesting enough compared to Mars. NASA has lots of plans for Mars, including manned landings some day. A manned landing on Uranus (or Jupiter, Saturn or Neptune either) is impossible because those planets have no solid surface, being all atmosphere.

Answer 2

Well that would be a question you'd have to ask NASA! hehe

Answer 3

LMAO!!!  you couldn't have thought of any other way  to phrase that ?? LOL!!!!

Answer 4

let them send it to jupiter first then they will send it to remaining planets

you i feel we should all stay out of this,i mean this whole nasa thing is a big waste of money and energy

the same energy used to make and launch a rocket or satellite can be used by the whole america for 100 years

Answer 5

They probably won't because there isn't much that interest NASA on Uranus.

Answer 6

The only spacecraft to ever visit Uranus is the Voyager 2 probe. The Voyager 2 probe was launched on August 20, 1977 and reached Uranus on January 24, 1986. The Voyager 2 discovered additional moons of Uranus and while the rings of Uranus were discovered on Earth, the probe did capture some nice images of these very faint rings.

In addition, you may want to check out AeroSpaceGuide. This site has some interesting facts as well as mission summaries.

There are no further plans to send a probe to Uranus.

Answer 7

What would U hope to prove with the shot???

Answer 8

Well, they are planning on sending on to Jupiter i have heard. but maybe they wont send one to Uranus because of the toilet humour, it would sort of ruin the "coolness" in it.

Now on CNN, Nasa has sent a probe to Uranus!

Answer 9

The Voyager II probe did a flyby of Uranus in 1986, coming within 81,500 kilometers of its cloud tops.

As of right now, NASA has no firm plans for a specific mission to Uranus.

Answer 10

well whenever they do, i hope they don/t have to use gas or diesel fuel.

Answer 11

There are no plans as of right now to send a spacecraft to Uranus. At the very least instead of a high speed flyby like Voyager 2's, it would have to be an orbiter like Galileo and Cassini. That puts some serious limits on how we can get there, we cannot use a gravity assist from Jupiter the way Voyager 2 did to get to the planet. It would be moving so fast a upper stage such as the Centaur wouldn't be powerful enough to brake it into Uranian orbit, and these rockets are not made to carry 20 tons of cryogenic propellants for years on end. We could use Jupiter to help a probe reach Uranus so a smaller retrorocket can do the job of parking it in orbit around the planet, but the flight time will be at least a decade.  The U.S. has the experience from Cassini and Galileo to reach Uranus, and much of the spacecraft can use existing technologies. I think the only way a mission to Uranus and Neptune as well would be possible is  the use of a low-thrust ion engine or solar sail paired with either a solid or liquid fueled on board rocket. Flight times can be reduced to a reasonable time and the probe can use either Jupiter or Saturn to trim the flight time further. It goes without saying the feeble sunlight out there requires the spacecraft to be nuclear powered. If such a mission were to be proposed and approved right now, I'm sure before 2020 the probe will be on the launch pad.

Answer 12

Well, Voyager has already been 'to' Uranus. It has not landed, just flied by. We are just starting to perfect landings on mars, a relativley easy target.