Powering Science
NASA's Large Strategic Science Missions
by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Space Studies Board, Committee on Large Strategic NASA Science Missions: Science Value and Role in a Balanced Portfolio
Description
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development. These missions span the scientific fields associated with SMD’s four divisionsâ€"Astrophysics, Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Planetary Sciences. Because a single mission can consist of multiple spacecraft, NASA-SMD is responsible for nearly 100 operational spacecraft. The most high profile of these are the large strategic missions, often referred to as “flagships.â€
Large strategic missions are essential to maintaining the global leadership of the United States in space exploration and in science because only the United States has the budget, technology, and trained personnel in multiple scientific fields to conduct missions that attract a range of international partners. This report examines the role of large, strategic missions within a balanced program across NASA-SMD space and Earth sciences programs. It considers the role and scientific productivity of such missions in advancing science, technology and the long-term health of the field, and provides guidance that NASA can use to help set the priority of larger missions within a properly balanced program containing a range of mission classes.
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- Publisher National Academies Press
- Publication Date May 2018
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780309463836 / 0309463831
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 44 USD
- Pages132
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2017
- Dimensions11 X 8.5 inches
- Reference Code10.17226/24857
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