Abstract
At a cost of $63 M, and a hardware development time of less than two years, the recently completed and highly successful Lunar Prospector (LP) mission was in many respects the quintessential Faster, Better, Cheaper (FBC) mission. One set of questions that naturally arises, is whether the factors that led to the success of this mission were unique to LP, and to what extent can we expect to reproduce this formula on future mission sets. This paper provides an overview of the LP mission, along with a review of the key factors that contributed to its success, in the context of the recent reports on FBC and NASA project management. Finally, an assessment is made as to how well current trends in future discovery mission architecture will lend themselves to the LP model, and what developments could help make a difference.
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