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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>NASA Heliophysics Mission Design School Pilot<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now through March 30, 2020, NASA is accepting applications for the Heliophysics Mission Design School (HMDS), an early-career development pilot opportunity to help prepare the next generation of heliophysics science and engineering mission
leaders. This experience is an adaptation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s long-running Planetary Science Summer School, focused on high-priority heliophysics content and mission design. Participants learn the process of developing a hypothesis-driven
robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment while getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule and the trade-offs inherent in each.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Science and engineering doctoral candidates, recent Ph.D.s, postdocs, junior faculty, and certain master’s degree students, who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (and a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated
counties), are eligible. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. Partial financial support is available for a limited number of individuals.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Session 1: Preparatory Sessions Jun 22-Aug 28. Culminating Week at JPL Aug 31-Sep 4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Session 2: Preparatory Sessions Sep 7-Nov 6. Culminating Week at JPL Nov 9-13<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course, participants spend the first 10-11 weeks in preparatory webinars acting as a science mission team, prior to spending the final culminating week at JPL being mentored
by JPL’s Advance Project Design Team, or “Team X” to refine their planetary science mission concept design, then present it to a mock expert review board.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To apply and learn more about the NASA Science Mission Design Schools:<o:p></o:p></p>
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