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.


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    Title :

    Opportunities for NASA office of space science funding of ISS payloads


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Space technology and applications international forum -1999 ; 1999 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)


    Published in:

    AIP Conference Proceedings ; 458 , 1 ; 284-289


    Publication date :

    1999-01-22


    Size :

    6 pages





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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