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Paolo
post Feb 27 2013, 06:57 PM
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been unsuccessfully trying googling for more info on the just selected Interplanetary NanoSpacecraft Pathfinder In Relevant Environment (INSPIRE) JPL CubeSat
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?rele...ml&rst=3706
hailed as "the world's first CubeSats to be launched beyond Earth orbit" (I think this title should go to the Japanese Shin'en, even if it never reported back to Earth).
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post Feb 27 2013, 07:17 PM
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I've been trying too but no luck yet. The image with the release hinted at a lunar flyby. Meanwhile Pam Clark and colleagues have been promoting ideas like this as well, specifically for the Moon.

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post Mar 14 2013, 09:45 AM
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some details of INSPIRE (not much, in reality)
http://www.space.com/20022-tiny-cubesat-sa...-for-space.html
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post Mar 20 2013, 04:25 PM
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US restarts PU-238 production ( well a test really ).

http://news.yahoo.com/u-restarts-plutonium...-013110181.html
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post Mar 20 2013, 06:37 PM
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Great to hear.
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post Mar 29 2013, 08:37 AM
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NASA Wants $100 Million To Catch An Asteroid
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post Jul 27 2016, 11:31 AM
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Interesting infografic: http://i.imgur.com/lYdRVRi.png


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post Jul 27 2016, 06:13 PM
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I was just going to comment on the potential revolution(s) introduced by the EELT and other large telescopes (2 others somewhat smaller in development; one of those in limbo) that will come online in the next 5-10 years.

EELT is supposed to provide a resolution of up to 0.001 arc seconds, which would mean, roughly speaking, that Kuiper Belt objects could be imaged with about the same resolution that HST imaged Ceres and Vesta, including ~100 pixel views of Pluto.

This would also allow the separation of exoplanets from their host star for systems over 50 light years away, although the practical possibilities for observations will depend upon techniques for canceling out the star's glare.

When 2 or 3 telescopes with comparable power are available, it should be a significant boost for astronomy, accomplishing some things that might be done with spacecraft now and some things that can't be done at all now. JWST will already be online and filling other niches.
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Yet another chart (from a tweet from Emily): https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/758726644341223424


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post Oct 12 2016, 07:51 PM
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Maybe I'm the only one who's antsy, but the news last year stated explicitly that the next one or two Discovery mission finalists would be selected "by September 2016," which is now in the past. At the very least, the announcement is late, and presumably, the decision hasn't quite finalized yet, either.

I suppose that's all there is to say about it… a deadline was slipped without any public notice of why, what it might mean, or when the actual announcement will be. Maybe it's just an organization being late… Maybe the lack of an update says something about the program direction as a whole?
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post Oct 12 2016, 08:06 PM
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QUOTE (JRehling @ Oct 12 2016, 11:51 AM) *
At the very least, the announcement is late... I suppose that's all there is to say about it…

Yes, that's all there is to say about it.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/07/nasa-...e-insight-woes/

"the head of the agency’s science division said this week NASA will still approve development of at least one new solar system probe in December."


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post Dec 18 2016, 09:57 PM
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On November 29, Jim Green told a VEXAG meeting, "There’s an excellent chance we’ll be able to complete the [Discovery] selection and make that announcement before the end of December."

That combination of statement and audience doesn't necessarily imply that the selection will include a Venus mission, but it sounds like we'll find out soon enough.

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3123/1
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post Dec 19 2016, 03:59 PM
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QUOTE (JRehling @ Dec 18 2016, 01:57 PM) *
On November 29, Jim Green told a VEXAG meeting, "There’s an excellent chance we’ll be able to complete the [Discovery] selection and make that announcement before the end of December."

I'm hearing from other sources that the announcement now may not come until the end of January.


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post Dec 24 2016, 12:42 AM
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QUOTE (vjkane @ Dec 19 2016, 10:59 AM) *
I'm hearing from other sources that the announcement now may not come until the end of January.


Some communications logistics indicators I've heard of point to early January. (NASA notifies the PIs by
phone before the public announcement so press releases can be queued up etc., and so NASA needs
to know how the PIs can be reached in a certain window). But things can change.
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post Dec 27 2016, 02:36 AM
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I'd also imagine the Christmas/New Year week would be an unideal time to make such an announcement, what with all the media noise that happens around this time of year. It'd be alot better to postpone it to January so that the announcement can get noticed more and stir more publicity for NASA.
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