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    Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) is a planetary exploration program operated by NASA. The program funds small, low-cost spacecraft...
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    Artemis 1 moon mission cubesat (video)". Space.com. Retrieved August 9, 2023. NASA, Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration Program Abstracts...
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    EscaPADE (category Missions to Mars)
    The Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration ("SIMPLEx") program was intended as a program to select small, low-cost space missions to fly...
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  • a technique that is contrast to duplex printing Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program at NASA This disambiguation page...
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    Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (category Missions to the Moon)
    CubeSats chosen by NASA's Science Mission Directorate through the Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, along with Q-PACE...
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  • ELaNa XX. The development of the mission was funded through NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. Observations...
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  • Lunar Trailblazer (category Missions to the Moon)
    of NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program in 2019. The goal of the planned mission is to use a small satellite to...
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  • (SSERVI), and is currently the program contact for NASA's "Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx)". Daou's family fled war-ravaged...
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    of 2024. Missions in NASA's New Frontiers Program tackle specific Solar System exploration goals identified as top priorities by the planetary science...
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  • Varda Space Industries to Supply Multiple Photon Spacecraft for Space Manufacturing Missions". Rocket Lab (Press release). 11 August 2021. Retrieved 11...
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    for research, technology development and launch of satellites into orbit, and is involved in many more advanced missions such as asteroid exploration...
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    Non-Radioisotope Power Systems For Sunless Solar System Exploration Missions Pavone, Marco: Spacecraft/Rover Hybrids for the Exploration of Small Solar System Bodies...
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    Janus (spacecraft) (category Missions to asteroids)
    The two small 36 kg spacecraft —which fall under the 180 kg mass limit for SIMPLEx missions — will conduct stand-alone planetary science missions. The spacecraft...
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    prioritizing of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars exploration missions, as do most NASA missions, can be fairly costly. For example, NASA's Curiosity...
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  • Mars Micro Orbiter (category Missions to Mars)
    another mission in 2020. In April 2015, NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program requested proposals for interplanetary...
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    a role in many NASA missions. It provides leadership in astrobiology; small satellites; robotic lunar exploration; the search for habitable planets; supercomputing;...
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    Lunar water (category Exploration of the Moon)
    the Lunar Trailblazer satellite is part of NASA's Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program. The satellite carries two instruments—a...
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    explore large regions of a planet in detail for relatively low cost. Airplanes for planetary exploration have also been proposed. While the notion of...
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    Mission assumes significance in the context of the international scientific community considering several exciting missions in planetary exploration,...
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    interesting target for planetary exploration, but Pluto presents significant challenges for exploration because of its small mass and great distance...
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    lightspeed time delay) by human operators on the ground. Robotic planetary exploration programs use spacecraft that are programmed by humans at ground...
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  • community that spaceflight missions to the Moon and other celestial bodies might compromise their future scientific exploration, in 1958 the International...
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    be worth it. Exploration of Mars has also been argued to be better left to the already successful robotic missions, with crewed missions simply being...
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    responsible for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The project manager was JPL's Tony Spear. This mission was the first of a series of missions to Mars that included...
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    allow for cheaper designs and ease of mass production. Another major reason for developing small satellites is the opportunity to enable missions that...
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    interplanetary probes; some of the discovered bodies may become targets for exploration missions, an example of which is preliminary work on a probe to Haumea and...
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    Artemis program (category Exploration of the Moon)
    have planned Artemis I through Artemis V missions; later Artemis missions have also been proposed. Each SLS mission centers on the launch of an SLS launch...
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    private company that is developing space robotics technology for lunar and planetary missions. It was founded in 2007 by Carnegie Mellon professor Red Whittaker...
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    planetary research of GAISh MGU". selena.sai.msu.ru. (in Russian) Moon Maps. MSU Reichl, Eugen (2019). The Soviet Space Program – The Lunar Mission Years:...
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    hailed as the ninth planet. However,: 27  its planetary status was questioned when it was found to be much smaller than expected. These doubts increased following...
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