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Discovery Mission Competition 2021 selection
vjkane
post Feb 13 2020, 06:58 PM
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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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- vjkane   Discovery Mission Competition 2021 selection   Feb 13 2020, 06:58 PM
- - JRehling   And the semifinalists are: Deep Atmosphere Venus ...   Feb 13 2020, 09:13 PM
- - volcanopele   I still haven't come down yet (I'm on the ...   Feb 13 2020, 10:35 PM
|- - JRehling   Best wishes to Jason and those others who have a p...   Feb 14 2020, 03:36 AM
- - antipode   As someone who desperately longs for an Ice Giant...   Feb 14 2020, 02:25 AM
- - Explorer1   I would love to see all four too, but that's p...   Feb 14 2020, 04:12 AM
|- - JRehling   I mean getting all four soon – two now and two in ...   Feb 14 2020, 04:54 AM
- - Steve G   The nice thing about Venus, is it's close enou...   Feb 15 2020, 01:09 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Steve G @ Feb 14 2020, 06:09 PM) T...   Feb 15 2020, 01:44 PM
- - antipode   Its kinda annoying that after all these decades we...   Feb 15 2020, 09:29 PM
- - Explorer1   The trouble is that a fast, direct launch to Jupit...   Feb 16 2020, 12:17 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   I'm not sure why a direct approach with a heav...   Feb 16 2020, 07:55 PM
- - Explorer1   Antipode was mentioning a high energy upper stage,...   Feb 17 2020, 12:02 AM
|- - JRehling   Trident is a flyby, so orbital insertion is not a ...   Feb 17 2020, 08:21 AM
- - vjkane   I listened the the virtual LPSC 2020 virtual NASA ...   Mar 21 2020, 03:42 PM
- - vjkane   Here's a link to the LPSC 2020 DAVINCI+ ePoste...   Apr 29 2020, 02:48 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Here is a link to a presentation about the Io Volc...   Jun 18 2020, 03:00 AM


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