New Frontiers 3 - updates |
New Frontiers 3 - updates |
Feb 27 2008, 05:54 AM
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NASA posted this update on its website today. No nuclear power for the next mission and list of acceptable candidate missions likely to come this spring:
"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) plans to release an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for the third New Frontiers (NF-3) mission no earlier than June 2008. Downselection would occur in 2009. This NF-3 AO will solicit only missions that do not require nuclear sources for power generation or propulsion. Once the National Research Council's (NRC's) New Opportunities for Solar System Exploration (NOSSE) committee reports to NASA on mid decade NF science mission priorities in March 2008, NASA plans to release more details about allowed targets for the upcoming NF-3 AO." http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=27162 -------------------- |
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Jul 31 2008, 07:16 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 220 Joined: 13-October 05 Member No.: 528 |
It is hard to imagine a solid Io or Enceledus mission using solar cells.
It is also hard to imagine a Discovery Class Io Observer using a Strirling Nuclear generator, although one is currently under study. Now if only we could get those two combined .... ah heck, as long as I'm wishing for something I'll wish for a large cache of previously unknown cheap plutonium to become available in the next 6 months |
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