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

National Research Council; Division On Engineering And Physical Sciences; Space Studies Board; Committee On New Opportunities In Solar System Exploration: An Evaluation Of The New Frontiers Announcement Of Opportunity

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309118891 ISBN 13: 9780309118897

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Summary
• 1 Overview and Top-Level Findings and Recommendations
• 2 New Frontiers Mission Options
• 3 Summary of Mission-Specific Recommendations
• Appendixes
• Appendix A: Speakers Before the Committee
• Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff

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

About this edition

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0309118891
• ISBN 13: 9780309118897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82