Centaurus (spacecraft mission)
Centaurus is a mission concept to flyby the centaurs 2060 Chiron and Schwassmann–Wachmann 1. It was submitted in response to the NASA Discovery program call for proposals in 2019 but ultimately was not among the four missions selected for further development by NASA in February 2020. If it had been selected, Centaurus would have been the first mission to attempt a flyby of a centaur.
| Mission type | Flyby |
|---|---|
| Operator | NASA |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Manufacturer | Lockheed Martin (proposed) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 2026–2029 (proposed) |
| Instruments | |
| Imagers, spectrometers | |
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