• This is a real shame, but something had to give with so many uber expensive programs coming to a head at the same time. The missions sound incredible:

    • a comet surface sample return

    • a mission to Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io

    • a lunar geophysical network

    • a sample return mission to the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin

    • a mission to characterize the potential habitability of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus

    • a probe of Saturn’s atmosphere.