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Navigator program: exploring new worldsNASA's Navigator Program is a series of interrelated missions to explore and characterize new worlds. Each successive mission provides an essential step toward the ultimate goal of discovering habitable planets and life around nearby stars. Are there other solar systems like our own? Are there other habitable worlds? Is there life elsewhere in the universe? these questions are timeless, but only in this generation has technology progressed to the state where we can conceive of an build a suite of missions that capable of answering them. The Navigator Program and its missions are described in this paper.
Document ID
20060043263
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Lawson, Peter R.
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 2006
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2006 IEEE Aerospace Conference
Location: Big Sky, MT
Country: United States
Start Date: March 4, 2006
End Date: March 11, 2006
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
astrobiology
extrasolar planets
astronomy

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