Discovery Mission Competition 2021 selection |
Discovery Mission Competition 2021 selection |
Feb 13 2020, 06:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
With the announcement of the down selected missions a few hours away for the final selection in spring 2021, it seemed time for a new thread.
Once with know the semi-finalists, this would be a good place to post links and news the the proposed missions. Here's my list of known and possible proposals: Concepts with ? have been presented in last year or two, appear to be the right scope for a Discovery mission, but weren't presented as Discovery missions Asteroids - MANTIS Centaurs - Centarus, Chiron, SW 1 Centaurs - Chimera SW 1 orbiter Jupiter, Io - Io Volcano Explorer Jupiter, Callisto - MAGIC orbiter Luna - Compass Lunar Rover Luna - Moon Diver Luna - ISOCHRON sample return Luna - Luna Volatile Orbiter ? Luna - NanoSWARM Mars - COMPASS climate orbiter Mars - Ice Breaker polar lander Neptune, Tritan - Trident Venus - Veritas mapping orbiter Venus - DaVinci+ atmospheric probe Venus - HOVER hyperspectrol observer Venus - Thalassa orbiter explore ocean loss ? -------------------- |
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Feb 13 2020, 10:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
I still haven't come down yet (I'm on the IVO proposal).
So we have nine months to complete a phase A mission study and send that off to NASA. Final selection of one or (hopefully) two missions will be in May 2021. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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Feb 14 2020, 03:36 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
Best wishes to Jason and those others who have a professional stake in this. I wish that all four missions were starting their science phase tomorrow (well, that might cause downlink problems) and I hope that whichever of these four don't fly this time get the nod in the next round. Whichever of them do, the results will be phenomenal. I've had my mind more on Venus lately (in fact, I just took a photo of it), but the others are also long overdue.
I know this is not the basis for evaluation, but they are also three of the largest worlds with (likely) current active volcanism. |
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