NASA's Earth Venture class (EV) of missions are competitively selected, Principal Investigator (PI) led, relatively low cost and narrowly focused in scientific scope. Investigations address a full spectrum of earth science objectives, including studies of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, polar ice regions, and solid Earth. EV has three program elements: EV-Suborbital (EVS) are suborbital/airborne investigations; EV-Mission (EVM) element comprises small complete spaceborne missions; and EV-Instrument (EVI) element develops spaceborne instruments for flight as Missions-of-Opportunity (MoO). To ensure the success of EV, frequent opportunities for selecting missions has been established in NASA's Earth Science budget. This paper will describe those opportunities and how the management approach of each element is tailored according to the specific needs of the element.


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    Title :

    Opportunities for Small Satellites in NASA's Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Program


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites ; 2014 ; Logan, UT, United States


    Publication date :

    2014-08-02


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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