What I really meant was that an enterprising person might look at what future New Frontiers missions were being considered by each of the AGs in their respective areas. But your info on their position re an open or limited list of targets is also very useful.
This site lists the upcoming meetings of the Decadal Survey panels.If you're interested, you'd need to watch these meetings as they occur. Videos of the meetings and the presentations from the meetings are not being posted.Events | Space Studies Board https://www.nationalacademies.org/ssb/events
An open meeting of the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032: Panel on Mars.This meeting will focus on lessons learned from previous missions that can be applied to proposed or ongoing Mars programs and on technology development for future missions.
Quote from: vjkane on 01/02/2021 01:30 pmThis site lists the upcoming meetings of the Decadal Survey panels.If you're interested, you'd need to watch these meetings as they occur. Videos of the meetings and the presentations from the meetings are not being posted.Events | Space Studies Board https://www.nationalacademies.org/ssb/eventsJust a heads up : live stream https://livestream.com/accounts/7036396/events/9471780 starts in 30 minutes.QuoteAn open meeting of the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032: Panel on Mars.This meeting will focus on lessons learned from previous missions that can be applied to proposed or ongoing Mars programs and on technology development for future missions.
I watched nearly all of the open session, always interesting to take a deep dive into this stuff Apart from the science presented, there was a segment on program planning, and quite a fewquestions about how to reduce mission cost. SpaceX got an indirect reference, however there weretwo speakers from LockMart who basically said "it's a question of supply and demand, and there is verylittle demand [for Mars missions]".It seems that exploring the Martian subsurface will provide big science payback, but that requires drilling to adecent depth (10-100km), as well as rovers that can travel 100s of km rather than 100s of meters. If SpaceX canprovide a launch vehicle for that type of mission, it would be a real game changer.
Quote from: Frogstar_Robot on 01/06/2021 08:13 pmI watched nearly all of the open session, always interesting to take a deep dive into this stuff Apart from the science presented, there was a segment on program planning, and quite a fewquestions about how to reduce mission cost. SpaceX got an indirect reference, however there weretwo speakers from LockMart who basically said "it's a question of supply and demand, and there is verylittle demand [for Mars missions]".It seems that exploring the Martian subsurface will provide big science payback, but that requires drilling to adecent depth (10-100km), as well as rovers that can travel 100s of km rather than 100s of meters. If SpaceX canprovide a launch vehicle for that type of mission, it would be a real game changer.I also watched some of the Mars presentations with interest. I had not read or heard much about all the Mars drilling options before which is why I liked the presentations. I'd love to see more open sessions to learn more.
This meeting originally had an open session component. However, due to schedule conflicts, we have deferred the subject matter discussion to a later date. As of 11 January 2021 at 7:00pm, this meeting will have no open session component.
This Friday's Ocean Worlds panel will have open presentation on a Europa lander concept and an Enceladus orbilander.https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/01-15-2021/planetary-science-and-astrobiology-decadal-survey-2023-2032-panel-on-ocean-worlds-and-dwarf-planets-meeting-13
The rules are that an open meeting can be closed (if there are no outside speakers), but a closed meeting cannot be opened. So if we are planning a meeting with speakers we list an open meeting, but if the speakers cannot make it, then we make that a closed meeting. The speaker was unavailable, so they changed to a closed meeting only and will have that speaker at an open meeting later.