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Falcon 9 and Taurus II for Planetary Missions
Drkskywxlt
post Jul 30 2010, 12:18 PM
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http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100518/full/465276a.html

NASA hopes to certify Falcon 9 or Taurus II (or another commerical rocket) by the end of 2013 for planetary missions. Falcon 9's successful first launch helps that process. Hopefully, they will fill the perfect-sized shoes that are empty once Delta II is finished after launching GRAIL next year. Perhaps the next Discovery mission, with a launch date in 2016ish, will be able to intiate the planetary program to these new launch vehicles.

Does anyone know of proposed Discovery missions that are baselining to Falcon 9 or Taurus II? The ones proposed to the outer solar system like IVO, TiME, or AVIATR still need an Atlas V or Delta IV I'm sure.
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djellison
post Nov 18 2012, 04:55 PM
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Four flights, one still to fly, one playing Grasshopper in Texas? Would that be 6?
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- Drkskywxlt   Falcon 9 and Taurus II for Planetary Missions   Jul 30 2010, 12:18 PM
- - TPISCzar   The JASON-3 spacecraft will be launched on a Falco...   Nov 9 2012, 02:03 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (TPISCzar @ Nov 9 2012, 03:03 AM) I...   Nov 9 2012, 08:46 AM
|- - Mongo   QUOTE (ugordan @ Nov 9 2012, 09:46 AM) Wh...   Nov 18 2012, 02:00 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (Mongo @ Nov 18 2012, 03:00 AM) The...   Nov 18 2012, 10:31 AM
- - djellison   Four flights, one still to fly, one playing Grassh...   Nov 18 2012, 04:55 PM
|- - ugordan   No idea if that's counted in the total. I was ...   Nov 18 2012, 05:16 PM
- - Ron Hobbs   I saw the news that the USAF had contracted with S...   Dec 10 2012, 09:14 PM
- - Ron Hobbs   I guess the answer to my question is that this mis...   Dec 14 2012, 04:30 AM

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