Discovery Program 2006 and Missions Of Opportunity |
Discovery Program 2006 and Missions Of Opportunity |
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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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Oct 31 2006, 01:04 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I like the new missions for Deep Impact and Stardust, though.
This "EPOCh" mission for DI sounds intriguing: "The Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh) mission would use the high-resolution camera on the Deep Impact spacecraft to search for the first Earth-sized planets detected around other stars. L. Drake Deming of Goddard is EPOCh's principal investigator." ...what does DI have that Hubble doesn't? Are we just talking availability here, or does DI's HRC have better resolution for such a task? -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 31 2006, 07:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
I like the new missions for Deep Impact and Stardust, though. This "EPOCh" mission for DI sounds intriguing: "The Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh) mission would use the high-resolution camera on the Deep Impact spacecraft to search for the first Earth-sized planets detected around other stars. L. Drake Deming of Goddard is EPOCh's principal investigator." ...what does DI have that Hubble doesn't? Are we just talking availability here, or does DI's HRC have better resolution for such a task? I think it would be something like this proposal http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/hawaii/ha...ME_jan2004w.ppt Speaking of the new Stardust mission, this somewhat reinforces my belief that Deep Impact was a sort of job unfinished |
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Nov 1 2006, 01:41 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I think it would be something like this proposal http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/hawaii/ha...ME_jan2004w.ppt Okay, I think I get it now...long-parallax baseline imaging of nearby stars looking for Earth-sized object transits? Sounds interesting, but I have to wonder just how many extrasolar systems would happen to have ecliptic planes along our LOS for a given observation... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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