Although the torrent of new data
from planetary spacecraft during the past 20 years has increased interest in worlds beyond our own, that interest has been evergreen.
MSSS has also teamed with engineers to develop Mars rover exploration techniques, gravity gradiometer experiments, and proposals for full -
up planetary spacecraft missions.
He also said the delay in EM - 1 will not affect plans to use SLS to launch a
robotic planetary spacecraft, Europa Clipper, to Jupiter's moon Europa.
The asteroid will be one of the smallest objects ever visited by
a planetary spacecraft.
This year,
planetary spacecraft will visit two significant bodies in the solar system.