CEDAR email: 1 Week Left! Heliophysics Mission Design School Applications Now Due April 27, 2020

[Astrid Maute]

*1 Week Left! Heliophysics Mission Design School Applications Now Due April
27, 2020*

Now through April 27, 2020, NASA is encouraging 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.

Science and engineering doctoral candidates, postdocs, junior faculty,
certain master’s degree students, and all early-career investigators (<10
years experience) 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.

Session 1: Preparatory Sessions Jun 22-Aug 28.  Culminating Week at JPL Aug
31-Sep 4

Session 2: Preparatory Sessions Sep 7-Nov 6.  Culminating Week at JPL Nov
9-13

Roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course,
participants spend the first 10 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 heliophysics mission concept design, then present it to a mock expert
review board.

To apply and learn more about the NASA Science Mission Design Schools:

http://go.nasa.gov/missiondesignschools
Leslie Lowes (NASA)
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