CEDAR email: One Week Left! NASA 2022 Heliophysics Mission Design School Applications Due November 19, 2021

[Lowes, Leslie L (US 1853)]

One Week Left! NASA 2022 Heliophysics Mission Design School Applications Due November 19, 2021
Enhance Your Early Career! NASA’s Heliophysics Mission Design School (HMDS) is a 3-month career development experience to learn the development of a hypothesis-driven robotic space mission in a concurrent engineering environment, getting an in-depth, first-hand look at mission design, life cycle, costs, schedule & the inherent trade-offs inherent.  A NASA Science Mission Design School, HDMS is led by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in collaboration with Goddard Space Flight Center & Applied Physics Laboratory.
Science & engineering postdocs & early career researchers & faculty across all heliophysics disciplines (within 10 years post-Ph.D.) who are U.S. Citizens or legal permanent residents (& a very limited number of Foreign Nationals from non-designated counties) are eligible. Applicants from diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply.
2022 HMDS: Preparatory Sessions January 18 – April 1.  Culminating Week with JPL’s Team X March 28 – April 1.
Roughly equivalent in workload to a rigorous 3-hour graduate-level course, participants spend 10 weeks in preparatory webinars acting as a science mission team for a community-priority solar or space physics mission & build their science traceability matrix.  The final culminating week, participants are mentored by JPL’s Advance Project Design Team (“Team X”) to refine their mission concept design, then present it to a mock expert review board.  The culminating week is typically held at JPL, however for 2022 it may be virtual instead due to on-going Covid-19 pandemic conditions.

A recording of the informational session on the topic of applying to the 2022 Heliophysics Mission Design School is now posted on the Science Mission Design Schools website.  Applicants are encouraged to watch before applying.

To learn more & apply, visit http://go.nasa.gov/missiondesignschools

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