Shensuo
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Shensuo, formerly Interstellar Express, is a proposed Chinese National Space Administration program designed to explore the heliosphere and interstellar space. The program will feature two or three sp
Earth (2× gravity assist)
Jupiter (flyby)
Quaoar and Weywot (flyby)
Neptune
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Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet orbiting the Sun. It is the fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17
Shensuo
…proposed for launch on the Long March 5 and will require China to develop a space-based thermoelectric fission reactor. Flybys of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are possible, but the focus is on gravity assists from Earth and Jupiter, and heliosphere science. The heliosphere and the interstellar medium have…
Galileo Galilei may have been the first person to sight Neptune
Urbain Le Verrier mostly successfully predicted Neptune's position
Johann Gottfried Galle was requested by Le Verrier to look for Neptune
John Couch Adams independently calculated Neptune's position