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NASA New Frontiers Program

NASA’s New Frontiers Program is a series of medium-sized, Principal Investigator-led planetary missions that pursue high-priority, high-value focused investigations under a common competitive funding and management structure. Initiated in 2003, the program has included New Horizons, Juno, OSIRIS-REx, and Dragonfly.

NASA New Frontiers Program
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Aliases
New Frontiers ProgramNASA New FrontiersNew Frontiers planetary missions
Domains
spaceflight
Name
NASA New Frontiers Program
Status
active
Types
researchsciencedevelopment

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Description
NASA’s New Frontiers Program is a series of medium-sized, Principal Investigator-led planetary missions that pursue high-priority, high-value focused investigations under a common competitive funding and management structure. Initiated in 2003, the program has included New Horizons, Juno, OSIRIS-REx, and Dragonfly.
Leads
Parent Program
Participants
-
Start Date
2003

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Creation Time
August 13, 2026 at 09:11:04 UTC
Updated Time
August 21, 2026 at 13:45:19 UTC
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Official Urls
https://www.nasa.gov/planetarymissions/https://newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov/index.htmlhttps://science.nasa.gov/about-us/smd-programs-2/