NASA announces a new class of space missions: Probe explorers

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NASA has sent a whole host of spacecraft across the solar system and even beyond. They range from crewed ships to orbit and to the moon to robotic explorers. Among them are a range of mission classes from Flagships to Discovery Class programs. Now a new category has been announced: Probe Explorers. This new category will fill the gap between Flagship and smaller missions. Among them are two proposed missions; the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite and the Probe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics.

 

https://phys.org/news/2024-10-nasa-class-space-missions-probe.html

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It's about damn time...

 

It would also help if they got control of their Flagship Mission costs, which would free up money to pay for more missions.