CEDAR email: Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) Request for Community Input

[Maura Hagan]

Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities: Request for Community Input
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate recently embraced as a standard practice the concept of exploiting opportunities for secondary science payloads on launches with excess mass capacity. The National Academies Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) has been asked by NASA’s Heliophysics Division to prepare a short report discussing possible elements of a program with the flexibility and agility to respond to such emergent rideshare opportunities.
The CSSP is seeking community input on this topic, in particular with regards to the following topics:
1) Kinds of solar and space physics science that would be enabled by an agile response to rideshare opportunities, at locations that would provide global perspectives, unique views, or continuous coverage, among others;
2) Types of payloads that are suited to rideshare opportunities, because they are scientifically valuable in single or multiple locations and rapidly deployable with short development times or that can be shelved until a launch becomes available;
3) Considerations for the development and implementation of a new HPD program that would allow agile responses to future short-notice rideshare opportunities.
Input may be contributed by using the input form found at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/SSB_052324
Maura E. Hagan
Dean, College of Science
Professor of Physics
Utah State University
0305 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-0305
+1-435-797-8408
maura.hagan at usu.edu<mailto:maura.hagan at usu.edu>

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