NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Planetary Mission “NASA has selected five science investigations for refinement during the next year as a first step in choosing one or two missions […]
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NASA Cancels Space Act Agreement With B612 Foundation
NASA Terminates Space Act Agreement with B612 Foundation for Sentinel Spacecraft “NASA spokesmen Dwayne Brown and Dave Steitz confirmed via email that NASA terminated the agreement with B612. Steitz explained […]
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NASA Pays For Decision Making Advice On A Decision It Already Made
Innovative Study Supports Asteroid Initiative, Journey To Mars “NASA employed ECAST to engage in a “participatory technology assessment,” an engagement model that seeks to improve the outcomes of science and […]
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NAC Set to Redirect Asteroid Redirect Mission
NASA Advisory Council Meeting “29-31 July 2015. Location: Jet Propulsion Laboratory” Agenda Keith’s note: In April the NAC came within a a vote of adopting a recommendation to NASA that […]
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NASA's Boulder Retrieval Mission
Keith’s note: NASA quietly admitted today at the Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) Meeting that one of the formally baseline, prime science requirements of the Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) is […]
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Advising NASA on the Soon-to-be-Redirected Asteroid Redirect Mission
Invitation to Membership on the Formulation Assessment and Support Team for the Asteroid Redirect Mission “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to release a letter of invitation for […]
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NASA Advisory Council Wants to Cancel Asteroid Redirect Mission and Send it to Phobos Instead
NAC Adopts Finding To Redirect the Asteroid Redirect Mission — to Mars, SpacePolicyOnline “The NASA Advisory Council (NAC) today unanimously adopted a finding that it thinks NASA should change the […]
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NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission Gets Wimpier
NASA Chooses Asteroid Mission Plan “NASA Wednesday announced more details in its plan for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which in the mid-2020s will test a number of new capabilities […]
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Fixing ARM So That It Makes (Some) Sense
Let’s Fix the Asteroid Redirect Mission, Marcia Smith Aviation Week “Fundamentally, ARM is two good ideas kluged together into one bewildering idea that NASA itself seems unable to explain effectively. […]
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Charlie Bolden Cannot Make His Mind Up About ARM
Our asteroid mission "may provide information to inform future work to help us protect our home planet."-Bolden #StateOfNASA #JourneyToMars — NASA (@NASA) February 2, 2015 Bolden "we are not trying to […]