Discovery Program 2006 and Missions Of Opportunity |
Discovery Program 2006 and Missions Of Opportunity |
Guest_AlexBlackwell_* |
Jan 3 2006, 10:19 PM
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I'm not sure exactly which forum this fits in but NASA has just released the AO for Discovery Program 2006 and Missions of Opportunity. See the Discovery Program Acquisition Home Page for more details. Click on the "Discovery AO" link to download the PDF.
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Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
Jan 26 2006, 11:33 PM
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Where solar studies are concerned, with one exception competed ones are suppposed to fall under the Explorer bailiwick rather than Discovery. The exception, of course, was Genesis, presumably because its main purpose was to do a really detailed isotopic analysis of the Sun's composition to provide additional insight on the formation processes of the planets. By itself, though, Genesis shows how fuzzy the borderlines between different basic branches of space science can be -- and again suggests the possibility that maybe NASA ought to lump ALL its competed missions within a single cost range together in one AO, rather than competing Discovery and Explorer (or New Frontiers and larger Explorers) separately. (The fact that small extrasolar-planet astronomy satellites are also put in the Discovery program rather than Explorer again shows the arbitrariness of this.)
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