Originally Posted by
Colonel Cærdiffi
Well that is amazing well done NASA.
So they're talking about putting a mission together that will fly in 2026, I wonder if waiting that amount of time is a budgetary issue or a technology issue (both of which could be overcome with a decent injection of funding or collaboration between multiple space agencies) or whether that's some sort of optimal time to launch a probe based on planet positioning?
Either way this is a rare opportunity and I hope every effort is made to get the probe out there ASAP.