Opening New Frontiers in Space: Choices for the Next New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity

Committee on New Opportunities in Solar System Exploration: An Evaluation of the New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity,National Research Council

Opening New Frontiers in Space: Choices for the Next New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Country
United States
Published
15 July 2008
Pages
82
ISBN
9780309118897

Opening New Frontiers in Space: Choices for the Next New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity

Committee on New Opportunities in Solar System Exploration: An Evaluation of the New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity,National Research Council

The New Frontiers Program was created by NASA in 2002 at the recommendation of the NRC’s decadal survey for solar system research. In order to optimize solar system research, the NRC recommended a series of principal-investigator missions that encourage innovation and accomplish the main scientific objectives presented in the survey. Two of the five recommended missions have been selected and, as was also recommended in the survey, the NRC was asked in 2007 to provide criteria and guiding principles to NASA for determining the list of candidate missions. This book presents a review of eight missions: the three remaining from the original list of five from the survey plus five missions considered by the survey committee but which were not recommended. Included in the review of each mission is a discussion of relevant science and technology developments since the survey and set of recommended science goals.

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