The Mars Program institutes the Mars Scout Missions in order to address science goals in the program not otherwise covered in baseline Mars plans. Mars Scout missions will be Principal-Investigator (PI) led science missions. Analogous to the Discovery Program, PI-led investigations optimize the use of limited resources to accomplish focused science and allow the flexibility to quickly respond to discoveries at Mars. Scout missions also require unique investments in technology and reliance upon Mars-based infrastructure such as telecom relay orbiters. Scouts utilize a two-step competitive process for selection. In Dec, 2002, the Step 2 selections by NASA were announced and then approximately five month studies will result in a selection for flight around August, 2003 for a mission to be launched in 2007.


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    Title :

    Mars Scout 2007 - a current status


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2003 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Publication date :

    2003-03-08


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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