It is NASA Office of Space Science (OSS) policy that International Space Station (ISS) research opportunities will be competed against other platforms and opportunities, i.e., there is no plan to have a set aside for developing ISS payloads. However, future Explorer Program solicitations will allow ISS investigations to compete on an equal basis with other missions requiring expendable launch vehicles, secondary-payload launches, etc. Commitment of Explorer Program resources, on the other hand, requires a three-year limit for instrument development. This means that ISS investigations will not be solicited by OSS until there is confidence that selected instruments can be launched within three years. Now that the ISS assembly is about to begin, the space science community should feel challenged to design instruments that can be built within the cost caps of the specific Explorer Program categories.
Opportunities for NASA office of space science funding of ISS payloads
Space technology and applications international forum -1999 ; 1999 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
AIP Conference Proceedings ; 458 , 1 ; 284-289
1999-01-22
6 pages
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Opportunities for NASA Office of Space Science Funding of ISS Payloads
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