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MISSION PLANNING WORKING GROUP-ROADMAP-

WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?

May 19, 2008

Presented byAndy Christensen

Jim SpannChris St. Cyr

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Mission Planning Working GroupAlan Cummings

Barbara Giles

Rod Heelis

Frank Hill

Tom Immel

Justin Kasper

Lynn Kistler

Jeff Kuhn

Arik Posner

Geoff Reeves

Nathan Schwadron

Stan Solomon

Jim Spann

Chris St.Cyr

Bill Stabnow

Robert Strangeway

Ted Tarbell

Andy Christensen

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Charter from NASA HQ

• Craft a sustainable and robust science based and science driven strategy that is achievable within our resources and constraints

• Start from science goals in previous roadmap and update with new results and new insights

• Flexibility in the implementation is a high priority, including LWS and STP lines

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Workshop Objectives• Communicate the budget, launch

environment, and other constraining factors• Provide a Forum for community input and

discussion of the state of Heliophysics – Suggested updates to the science objectives,

Research Focus Areas (RFAs), and Expected Achievements in the near, mid-, and far term

– New mission concepts across the range of small to large, especially consistent with potential launch vehicles

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Expected Differences from Previous Roadmaps

• Accomplishment section added

• Prioritized and time ordered sequence of expected science achievements

• System level cost estimates of missions candidates, no point design engineering studies

• Program Constraints Explicit– Launch availability and alternatives– Budget assumed flat

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We Want to Hear from You

• Input on science accomplishments since 2005 Roadmap

• Input on Research Focus Areas and science objectives in near, mid-, and far term

• Input on Technology

• Input on new Mission concepts

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Breakout Sessions

• Breakout Sessions 1 and 2 (today)– Science Discussions (question 1 and 2)– Mixed Discipline– Important that all disciplines be represented in all

parallel sessions.

• Breakout Session 3 (tomorrow)– Discipline Focused discussion of technology

• Two dedicated Poster Sessions today, posters up and available tomorrow

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Questions to the Community• In your view, what is the most compelling and enabling science that

will advance Heliophysics in the next 5-10 years? In the next 10 -20 years?

• Does the science that you envision fit into the current roadmap Research Focus Areas? If so, which one (s)? If not, could you suggest a new Research Focus Area that would include your new science? are there any revisions to the RFAs that you would suggest?

• Acknowledging that new discoveries in Heliophysics are often driven by the utilization of emerging and enabling technologies, what is needed in the areas of mission implementations (e.g. launch vehicles, space craft, locations, etc.), data acquisition/instrumentation (e.g. remote sensing detectors, in-situ measurements, etc.), transmission (e.g. telemetry, recording, etc.) and analysis (e.g. data environments, virtual observatories, modeling, etc.)?