Talk:ASTER (spacecraft)

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)

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', with no mention of Russian cooperation since 2015. 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)