Sentences with phrase «other decadal survey»
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.
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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.
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.
It was recommended by the 2003 National Academy of Sciences» Planetary Decadal Survey («New Frontiers in the Solar System») that this first mission to the Kuiper Belt should include flybys of both Pluto and other KBOs in order to maximize the science return.
As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»
Other National Academy studies, senior and portfolio reviews, standing advisory committee studies, town hall meetings, and mid-decade adjustments to the decadal surveys are also important components.
Here's Waleed Abdalati, a University of Colorado Earth scientist who was chief scientist at NASA through 2011 and 2012 and is the other co-chairman of the 2017 Decadal Survey mentioned above:
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).