NASA Requesting Comments on New Frontiers 4 AO

NASA has released a draft Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for the New Frontiers planetary exploration program’s next set of missions and is soliciting community feedback. The New Frontiers program is composed of medium-class spacecraft missions for focused scientific investigations that have been determined by the community to be a high priority. Current missions in this program include New Horizons, Juno, and OSIRIS-REx. The most recent National Academies decadal survey, Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022, recommended that NASA select two New Frontiers missions in the decade and the current AO, New Frontiers 4, is for the first of those two.

Comments from the community are welcome on the New Frontiers 4 AO through 30 September. Information, announcements, and reference documents can also be found the the New Frontiers Program Acquisition website.