Next NASA New Frontiers mission to begin in 2016

Next NASA New Frontiers mission to begin in 2016
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NASA has announced to start its next mission in the New Frontiers line - a cost-capped class of $1 billion robotic solar-system explorers - in 2016. New Frontiers missions are managed by a single principle investigator who is responsible for keeping the mission\'s development cost under $1 billion. The cost cap does not include the price of a launch vehicle which is covered under the NASA Launch Services Programme.

Washington: NASA has announced to start its next mission in the New Frontiers line - a cost-capped class of $1 billion robotic solar-system explorers - in 2016. New Frontiers missions are managed by a single principle investigator who is responsible for keeping the mission's development cost under $1 billion. The cost cap does not include the price of a launch vehicle which is covered under the NASA Launch Services Programme.According to NASA's planetary science chief Jim Green, NASA is also looking ahead to the New Frontiers competition that would begin by 2020.

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