More like the 'Begging For A Sponsor and Money' phase. They've been pitching this thing to anyone who will listen and nobody's taken them up yet.I've been reading these presentations on Prospector for a while now and I agree with what Blackstar up thread. AFAICT it doesn't address any compelling science for SMD and HEOMD ain't going to the Lunar surface anytime soon.
{snip}That also supports one of my paranoid amazing people rants. Precursors just fall through the gap between planetary science and HSF. Planetary science is not interested in human requirements in space. The HSF BEO budget won't go anywhere near ISRU unless it can place an SLS launch and an Orion mission on the critical path.
More like the 'Begging For A Sponsor and Money' phase. They've been pitching this thing to anyone who will listen and nobody's taken them up yet.
Green shows list of upcoming international lunar missions. He's having conversations w/Russia, S Korea others on how NASA can participate.
Notice the wishful 2020 date for Resource Prospector ? Lets take a look :https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160009272.pdfFY21/22 launch at best. SRR has been pushed year by year for last 3 years or so.
Talk by Daniel Andrews (RP manager) from about a month ago at google:
Interesting talk. So the project moved from Phase A to Phase B. Did NASA formally approve a new start?
So the question is, what mission is willing to offer them a ride? Can they fit to EM-2?
Quote from: AegeanBlue on 01/18/2017 08:32 pmSo the question is, what mission is willing to offer them a ride? Can they fit to EM-2? 'Ride' as in launch isn't the big deal, missing lander is.