Sentences with phrase «decadal survey priority»

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.

The AAS further endorses the report's key recommendations on optimizing instrumentation for, and offering broad access to, the full suite of public and private telescopes; on developing the capacity to further investigate Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) discoveries; on identifying the facilities needed to realize other decadal survey priorities; and on continuing technology development and astronomer training needed for the future.

Not exact matches

As early as the 2000 decadal survey, U.S. astronomers ranked Webb as their highest priority for the first 10 years of the new millennium.

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.

The report assesses advances made since the US's 2010 decadal survey, a wish list that the astronomical community releases every 10 years to identify research priorities.

The report follows up on the 2010 decadal survey, a wish list from the astronomical community released every 10 years to identify the top research priorities.

It was recommended by the most recent decadal survey for astrophysics and remains one of NASA's top astrophysics priorities after the James Webb Space Telescope.

Its Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences, scheduled to be released in early 2015, is supposed to identify both high - priority research projects and the infrastructure needed to conduct them.

Then, in 2001, the National Academy of Sciences» «decadal survey» of astronomy — a summary of the field's primary goals for the next 10 years — listed a survey telescope as a high priority for the field.

A 2011 decadal survey of the field by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies ranked a giant segmented - mirror telescope as one of its top three priorities for ground - based optical and infrared astronomy.

* Correction, 15 May, 2:36 p.m.: The priority ranking given to a giant segemented - mirror telescope by the 2011 decadal survey has been corrected.

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.

The committee for the Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences 2015 (DSOS) will develop a list of the top ocean science priorities for the next decade in the context of the current state of knowledge, ongoing research activities, and resource availability.

The most recent NRC planetary science decadal survey ranked returning a sample of Mars to Earth as its first priority for a flagship mission, with a Europa mission second.

Choosing among the many places to visit within a constrained budget is a task left to the NRC and its decadal survey process wherein the relevant science community reaches consensus after significant debate on the top scientific priorities for a given 10 - year period (a decade, hence the term «decadal survey»).

The Europa mission was the second priority for large missions in the decadal survey.

The National Academies» decadal surveys are premier examples of setting priorities with extensive community input.

The committee stressed that it was «the moderate cost, low technical risk and mature design» of the original WFIRST concept that led the Decadal Survey committee to make it the top priority.

The scientific opportunities provide a compelling case for optimizing and advancing the country's system of observatories, even if the National Science Foundation's Astronomical Sciences Division (NSF / AST) does not yet have the resources to implement all of the report's key recommendations without severely impacting program balance — the long - standing priority of the NRC's decadal surveys.

Dressler chaired the panel of the NRC's 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics ressurvey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics resSurvey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics research.

Their recommended balance of large, medium, and small - scale efforts highlights the need to maintain sufficient funds to support individual investigators, to continue a program of technical innovation, and to train the next generation of scientists, while also funding those facilities essential for addressing the decadal surveys» scientific priorities.

A prominent theme in today's report is a reminder that the fundamental tenet of the NWNH Decadal Survey is to maintain balance in NASA's astrophysics portfolio among large programs like WFIRST, smaller programs in the Explorer series, and the associated Research and Analysis (R&A) program «If implementing WFIRST / AFTA compromises the program balance then it is inconsistent with the rationale that led to the high priority ranking,» the Harrison committee warned.

A Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the top large space priority in the report of the ASTRO2010 Decadal Survey «New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics».

Abstract: In December 2010, NASA created a Science Definition Team (SDT) for WFIRST, the Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope, recommended by the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for a large space mission.

The New Frontiers Program is designed to provide opportunities to conduct several of the medium - class missions identified as top priority objectives in the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey, conducted by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

This paper describes an Interim... ▽ More In December 2010, NASA created a Science Definition Team (SDT) for WFIRST, the Wide Field Infra - Red Survey Telescope, recommended by the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey as the highest priority for a large space mission.

WFIRST was the top priority in the 2010 Decadal Survey, but its implementation was delayed for several years because of cost overruns on JWST.

JWST was the top priority for a large space - based mission in the 2000 astrophysics Decadal Survey.

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.

Its proposals include a National Academies» decadal survey, involving representatives of the public and private sectors, which would develop priorities for weather research and forecasting.

Mitigation strategies were considered entirely within the context of climate measurement recovery and are not to be construed as a review of decadal survey mission priorities.

The decadal survey missions represent a set of community consensus priorities spanning Earth science including, but not limited to, climate science.