Sentences with phrase «decadal survey planned»
The troubles surrounding Webb and WFIRST, Rieke says, could delay the next such survey, which would at minimum throw off the timing for those of other fields — particularly the next decadal survey planned for planetary science.
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Meanwhile, WFIRST — NASA's planned successor to Webb and the highest priority of the 2010 Decadal Survey — has experienced tumult of its own, suffering moderate delays and cost growth.
In other words, the easiest solution might be for the next decadal survey to simply proceed as planned and to recommend that NASA pursue a portfolio of smaller, cheaper space telescopes rather than more multibillion - dollar behemoth in the 2020s.
Rieke is the principal investigator of Webb's NIRCam instrument, as well as the co-chair of the National Academies» Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, a body that along with NASA, the National Science Foundation and the National Academies» Space Studies Board helps plan the decadal surveys.
The delay also jeopardizes the next decadal survey, a once - every -10-years strategic plan produced by the National Academies that assesses the research landscape and makes recommendations to federal agencies and Congress about developing and funding future generations of ground - and space - based telescopes.
The White House has bleaker plans for WFIRST, which the U.S. space science community ranked as the highest priority for NASA's astrophysics program in the 2010 Decadal Survey.
Dr. Hofstadter: While there is no definitive path forward as yet, I hope that within the next five years (tied in part to the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey) we will converge on a specific plan.
The NRC committee that produced the 2010 decadal survey, New Worlds New Horizons, and recommended development of WFIRST was aware of ESA's plans for Euclid, but ESA had not yet selected Euclid for development.
However the House bill requires that the National Research Council (NRC) certify to Congress that NASA's new Mars plan conforms with the NRC's decadal survey priority of missions that will ultimately return a sample of Mars to Earth.
Over the next year we plan to turn many of these ideas into grants, instrumentation plans, and one or more submissions into the upcoming Astro 2020 decadal survey.
Workshop participants laid out a number of possible ideas for the site, and, as discussed in the «Preparations for the Decadal Survey» article in this newsletter, we are now asking members of the community to help us turn those ideas into a plan for the next decade or longer.
Much of the hearing focused on the 2010 Decadal Survey for astronomy and astrophysics conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and the next one that is now being planned.
While the plans are still in their infancy, Stern and his team are hopeful that they can get their concept together in time for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a massive report prepared for NASA and Congress by the planetary science community, which helps to set the space agency's priorities for solar system exploration.
Following are some of the key points that arose regarding JWST and plans for the next astrophysics Decadal Survey.
Participants also discussed other options for securing the TSIS data record, including acceleration of the decadal survey recommendation for CLARREO, flying a series of dedicated spacecraft, and accommodation of TSIS on already - planned missions as an instrument of opportunity (e.g., on GOES - R or DSCOVR).
The NASA - planned LDCM mission, the international plans for Sentinel - 3 and GCOM - C / SGLI, and the decadal survey recommendation for HyspIRI are also of interest.
NASA plans for OSTM / Jason -2 and LDCM, international plans for Sentinel - 3 and GCOM - C / SGLI, and the decadal survey recommendation for SWOT are also of interest.
International plans for OceanSat - 2, Sentinel - 3, and GCOM - C / SGLI are also of interest, as is the ACE mission recommended by the decadal survey.