Implementing a New Line of Medium-Class, Unmanned Space Exploration Missions

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Jan 2003

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SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS INT.FORUM-STAIF 2003: Conf.on Thermophysics in Microgravity; Commercial/Civil Next Generation

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The NASA Office of Space Science will soon be releasing the first Announcement of Opportunity to propose new, medium-class, missions for Solar System Exploration. This new mission line, called New Frontiers, has been created in order to allow greater access to a larger variety of targets in our Solar System. Missions may be of larger scope than the current Discovery program missions; proposed costs for building, launching, operating, and analyzing data from the New Frontiers missions may be as large as $650M (Fiscal Year 2003 dollars) and proposed launch date may be up to 47 months after development is initiated. New Frontiers missions may use radioisotope power sources (e.g. RTGs) and larger launch vehicles than allowed for Discovery missions, due to the greater allowed cost. Each proposal opportunity will be focused on proposals for investigations that address most if not all of the science objectives of one or more of the ``Medium Class'' investigations identified in the recent National Academy Planetary Science Decadal Survey (National Research Council, 2002). The management of this program is to be similar to Discovery, with a few significant differences. This paper describes the New Frontiers program, compares it to the successful Discovery program, and discusses the challenges involved in the selection and implementation of New Frontiers missions.

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