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Proposed mission to the Sun
Sundiver
was a proposed space mission to crash a probe into the
Sun
, while sending back data to
Earth
before burning up. It was proposed as a design study by the
Australian Academy of Science
's
National Committee for Space Science
as a Flagship mission to kick-start an Australian space program. The design study was proposed as a five-year study from 2011-2015 with a complement of 10 PhDs, budgeted at a cost of $10 M (Australian), leading to a Go/NoGo Decision in 2015.
The mission would have been comparable, in its close approach to the Sun, to the NASA
Parker Solar Probe
mission, although it would have only made a single pass into the solar corona.
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