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NASA ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW SOLAR SYSTEM MISSION, June 27, 2019, virtual, 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm ET (webcast)
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NASA will announce the selection of a new solar system exploration mission on June 27, 2019, presumably the fourth in the series of New Frontiers missions. The two finalists are:
- CAESAR, led by Cornell University, to return a sample from the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which was previously visited by ESA’s Rosetta mission, and
- Dragonfly, led by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, to explore the habitability of Saturn’s moon Titan.
The announcement will be made at 4:00 pm ET during NASA’s “Science Live” program that will air on NASA TV, the agency’s website, Facebook Live, YouTube, Periscope and USTREAM.
At 5:00 pm ET, a media teleconference will take place with the following participants:
- Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate
- Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division
- Curt Niebur, Lead Program Scientist for New Frontiers
- Principal investigator of the selected mission
It will stream on NASA Live.
NASA will also host an Ask Me Anything Reddit session on July 1, 2019 at 3:00 pm ET.