Rutgers astrophysicist Blakesley Burkhart has proposed a financing mechanism called Mission Market to support small space-science missions that receive favorable NASA evaluations but remain unfunded. Submitted to arXiv on October 15, 2026, the Mission Market white paper would connect those mission concepts with companies willing to pay for the creation of new scientific observations. Artificial intelligence companies would provide the principal …
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