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Paolo
post May 5 2011, 08:23 PM
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NASA just announced the three candidates for the next Discovery mission:
- A Mars Geophysical Monitoring Station
- the Titan Mare Explorer (yes!!!!!)
- the Comet Hopper
see http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/na...-121343498.html
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post May 6 2011, 05:21 AM
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more info on GEMS http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AGUFMDI43A1938B
and an image of the Phoenix-based lander http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/mul...a/pia13990.html
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post May 7 2011, 04:50 PM
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and an interesting presentation on the "Comet Hopper"
ftp://ftp.astro.umd.edu/pub/jess/CHopper_...9_JMS_final.ppt
turns out GEMS is the only solar-powered proposal of the three candidates
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post May 25 2011, 05:17 PM
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NASA to Announce New Planetary Science Mission
NF3 will be announced in a few hours. place your last bets...
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post May 25 2011, 05:29 PM
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Scientifically, I prefer SAGE. I'm very excited to see a return to the Venusian surface. Institutionally, I prefer OsirisREX since the SciOps center would be here in Tucson at the old Phoenix building. However, knowing NASA, it'll be MoonRISE.


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post May 25 2011, 05:40 PM
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my favorite would definitely be SAGE, then Osiris, then MoonRISE. No matter what, I still find the Moon boring...
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post May 25 2011, 06:40 PM
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SAGE...I like fuzzy planets.


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post May 25 2011, 07:13 PM
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If the word "Planetary" in "New Planetary Science Mission" is to be taken literally, then it must mean a Venus mission, since neither the Moon nor an asteroid are considered planets.
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post May 25 2011, 08:05 PM
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Just posted at NASA multimedia:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogaller...dia_id=90571421

OSIRIS-REx: Journey to an Asteroid

OSIRIS-REx will pluck samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth. The samples could help explain our solar system's formation and how life began. OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer) has a planned launch date in 2016. When it returns to Earth, scheduled for 2023, it will be the first U.S. mission to carry samples from an asteroid back to our planet.
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post May 25 2011, 08:08 PM
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QUOTE (charborob @ May 25 2011, 11:13 AM) *
If the word "Planetary" in "New Planetary Science Mission" is to be taken literally, then it must mean a Venus mission, since neither the Moon nor an asteroid are considered planets.


Planetary is essentially solar system exploration. You can play a semantics game if you like - but that's what it is. Discovery program missions to comets, asteroids, moon, mars and elsewhere are all 'Planetary' in the budget.

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The actual announcement of OSIRIS-REX is up now:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/fea...osiris-rex.html.

I have no stake in any (but I do like atmospheres). But, semantics aside, this sounds planetary enough for my tastes.
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post May 28 2011, 01:15 PM
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QUOTE (ynyralmaen @ Feb 25 2011, 11:47 PM) *
Marco Polo, which narrowly lost out in the competition for consideration for an earlier M1 or M2 mission slot, is through again.


with Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS-Rex approved I doubt that Marco Polo will get a chance to fly. I believe a more sensitive proposition would be for ESA to finance its contribution to one of these mission.
Anyway, there was recently an interesting paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics (with free access) on the target body of Marco Polo:
New observations of asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3, primary target of the ESA Marco Polo-R mission
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There's a new proposal for the next stages in exploring Europa coming from a NASA Europa Science Definition Team. The basic idea is to carry only geophysical instruments that must make measurements from orbit on an orbiter. High data rate remote sensing -- presumably cameras and imaging spectrometers -- would be carried on a Jupiter orbiter that would make multiple flybys of Europa.

You can read an EPSC abstract here. I have some additional analysis at my blog here.


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post Mar 15 2012, 09:47 PM
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Bad news from Russian space science program - Izvestia (in Russian language), Google translation.

It looks, that Russian Solar system research is gone for next few years (except cooperation in ExoMars project).


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post Mar 16 2012, 08:52 PM
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And some better news from Russian space program.
Missions are not canceled, but postponed. They want to work on reliability issues, which is good idea.


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