New OPAG report Options

[Phil Stooke]

Our Special Correspondent writes:

"Latest OPAG update in...

Some mildly interesting stuff in it:"

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/1_07_update.pdf

... and I put it here because there's more about Saturn in it than about other outer planets.

Phil

[volcanopele]

Another interesting comment. In James Green's New Frontiers status presentation, he comments that NASA has been obliged to reassess and expand the field of potential targets for the New Frontiers program with each AO. The reassessment for the upcoming AO will arrive by the end of FY07. These reassessment will still use the decadal survey as a starting off point. Now of those missions deemed medium-class, we still have the Lunar South Pole Sample Return, the Comet Nucleus Sample Return, and the Venus In-situ explorer. There is also a deferred category from which to look for possible new missions. These include a Ganymede observer (which is now being looked at as a small-flagship class mission), a Trojan/Centaur flyby mission, and an Io mission....

hmmm