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Future Missions and Conclusions

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This chapter looks at future Explorer missions; instrumented missions; missions that might have happened or were cancelled; and comes to conclusions.

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    Brian Harvey

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Harvey, B. (2018). Future Missions and Conclusions. In: Discovering the Cosmos with Small Spacecraft. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68140-5_5

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