New Frontiers mission candidates announced

ToSeek · #1 (**permalink**) 19-July-2004, 06:26 PM

NASA Selects Two New Frontiers Mission Concepts For Further Study

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NASA last Friday announced the selection of two proposals for detailed study as candidates for the next mission in the agency's New Frontiers Program.

The proposals are missions that would drop robotic landers into a crater at the south pole of the moon and return samples to Earth, and a mission that would orbit Jupiter from pole to pole for the first time to conduct an in-depth study of the giant planet.
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The New Frontiers Program is designed to provide opportunities to conduct several of the medium-class missions identified as the top priority objectives in the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey, conducted by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

NASA's New Horizons mission, which will fly by the Pluto-Charon system in 2014 and then target another Kuiper belt object, was designated the first New Frontiers mission.

Ilya · #2 (**permalink**) 20-July-2004, 02:59 AM

The next pair of Discovery class missions will be Messenger (next month) and Deep Impact (next year). The pair after that will be Dawn and Kepler - both in 2006 IIRC. Does anyone know when next mission selection will occur?

Wolverine · #3 (**permalink**) 20-July-2004, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by ToSeek

NASA Selects Two New Frontiers Mission Concepts For Further Study

Wow, glad I don't have to make such decisions, both have marked potential. Based upon the information in the article, I'd be leaning toward the lunar sample return candidate.

spfrss · #4 (**permalink**) 20-July-2004, 06:51 AM

you forgot Deep Impact, scheduled to launch December 30 towards

Comet P/Tempel 1...

http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/

Live long and prosper

Mauro

ToSeek · #5 (**permalink**) 20-July-2004, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolverine

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Originally Posted by ToSeek

NASA Selects Two New Frontiers Mission Concepts For Further Study

Wow, glad I don't have to make such decisions, both have marked potential. Based upon the information in the article, I'd be leaning toward the lunar sample return candidate.

Yes, whenever I hear about one of these competitions, I'm always thinking "I WANT THEM ALL!!"

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