Sentences with phrase «next decadal survey»

He also said that it is «not obvious» that NASA's proposal to delay the next Decadal Survey for astrophysics will be accepted.

The next Decadal Survey will start being compiled around 2020, Stern said.

The report's committee suggested that IXO could represent a promising top candidate for the next Decadal Survey, but only if the cost for NASA came down below $ 2 billion.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

In a sharp departure from the past, the decadal survey committee went to an outside contractor, Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California, for independent, rigorous estimates of the cost of missions it is recommending for the next decade.

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.

WFIRST was the top - ranked big space mission in the 2010 decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics, a list created by researchers to prioritize projects for the next ten years.

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.

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.

In her new position, Holley - Bockelmann's goals are to help develop the case for LISA science for the National Academy of Science's 2020 Decadal Survey, which contains the academy's recommendations for astronomical research in the next decade.

The results of these studies, which are expected to be made public by the end of the year, can be seen as preparatory work, soliciting ideas from the scientific community for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey that is due to come out in a few years.

It has been recognized by the most recent National Academy of Sciences decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics as an area that is ripe for new discoveries over the next decade, and one whose excitement we are pleased to share with our colleagues at NASA, with the scientific community, and with the American public.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) would launch in 2020 as one of the next generation of telescopes that should target the early universe, search for nearby habitable planets and test the boundaries of fundamental physics, according to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey by the National Academy of Sciences.

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.

NASA Science Mission Directorate head Thomas Zurbuchen is raising the possibility of delaying the next astrophysics Decadal Survey because of the JWST launch delay and uncertainty about the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).

Following are some of the key points that arose regarding JWST and plans for the next astrophysics Decadal Survey.

The second scenario, preferred by many participants, consists of a next - generation synthetic - aperture - radar - based scatterometer mission referred to in the Earth science decadal survey as XOVWM.