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As the Pioneer II spacecraft was en route to Saturn and the twin Mariner JupiterSaturn (later Voyager) missions were under development, the United States started to study possible orbital missions to follow up this fast reconnaissance of the ringed planet.
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Ulivi, P., Harland, D.M. (2012). The last flagship. In: Robotic Exploration of the Solar System. Springer Praxis Books(). Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09628-5_1
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