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Possible predecessor concept

Around 2013, there was a proposed asteroid probe called MarcoPolo-R, and a 24-episodes web cartoon was made to promote the mission. On the very last episode an asteroid probe from Brazil (a sub-probe of MarcoPolo-R?) is described (The full episodes are still available here). Although there's no evident connection between this and ASTER, I wonder if both are from the same group of people. It would make sense for the probe depicted in the cartoon to have materialized into the current ASTER. Hms1103 (talk) 06:16, 24 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anything new here?

Has anything come out about this probe since 2022 other than scientific papers? The Brazilian Space Agency's website, from what I can tell, hasn't had anything come out about ASTER since 2017, where it was said to be 'proposed',^[1] with no mention of Russian cooperation since 2015.^[2] The first listed launch date in the article has passed, and the second is upcoming, with no news that I can find. This feels more like a proposed mission at the moment, rather than a planned one? Raikkappa23 (talk) 19:05, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Raikkappa23: Hi! I just updated it by mentioning that this mission wasn't in the Brazilian Space Agency reports for several periods (and it is not currently under consideration). For the science missions under consideration as of right now that I think that the following are interesting: CBERS-5/6 (the most certain that will happen due to the international cooperation), SelenITA (for the Artemis Program), Galileo Solar Space Telescope, Mirax, and while of private origin, the Garatéa-L is in the space agency workflow. The Brazilian Space Agency and the INPE are more focused in Earth science, so something like ASTER was a long shot, while Galileo has a good shot: Solar science is deeply related to Earth sciences, and the Multi-mission platform (a kind of "generic" satellite platform that the team may develop to specific missions) used by the Amazonia-1 helps the odds of a solar observatory happening in a low budget space program. While it is only in Portuguese, you may check here the Agency workflow. Erick Soares3 (talk) Erick Soares3 (talk) 01:09, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And here an English-language compact version of the 2022-2031 plans. Erick Soares3 (talk) 01:14, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

[1] ttps://www.gov.br/aeb/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/aeb-investe-em-projeto-que-aumenta-vida-util-de-satelites-e-naves-espaciais

[2] ttps://www.gov.br/aeb/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/brasil-e-russia-decidem-aprofundar-cooperacao-em-ciencia-e-tecnologia

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