I have to wonder if they had contact with these MIT scientists pre-publication and that's what partially spurred this mission.
(RocketLab and Photon seem like a REALLY good platform for low-cost, small planetary missions like this. You can launch a mission for the price of a paper conceptual study and without the constraints of being a secondary payload, which is problematic for planetary missions with their narrow launch windows.)
I have to wonder if they had contact with these MIT scientists pre-publication and that's what partially spurred this mission.
(RocketLab and Photon seem like a REALLY good platform for low-cost, small planetary missions like this. You can launch a mission for the price of a paper conceptual study and without the constraints of being a secondary payload, which is problematic for planetary missions with their narrow launch windows.)