New purpose will be to would good reconnaissance of the full range out of identified types and you will evolutionary says inside the just like the couple missions because possible and at the minimum expenses. The brand new SMACS goal have a tendency to start which efforts that have independent launches from four short spacecraft into lowest-rates Pegasus XL boosters. The very first is to 2100 Ra- Shalom (a primitive C-type asteroid); the next so you’re able to 1986 Da (an Yards-method of asteroid seen as an excellent fragment of your own established center of a classified mother or father human anatomy); the 3rd in order to P/Finlay (a good CN probably from inside the an intermediate phase out-of development); and you can a fourth so you can 3200 Phaethon (an enthusiastic F-type and you will a strong applicant to possess an extinct comet in the final stage regarding CN advancement).
Effective knowledge with these targets would be to instantaneously produce people special actual and chemicals distinctions available ranging from each along with the range of S-items observed out of Galileo (951 Gaspra and 243 Ida) and also the effective CN, P/Halley, noticed away from Giotto/VEGA.