The Impact of Commercialization to Achieve Science Missions with SmallSats
Session ID#: 162131
Session Description:
SmallSat missions have provided a new vantage point to advance our measurements for science. They have demonstrated their value with missions enabling multipoint large-scale high-resolution surveys within the Sun-Earth system, exploration of planetary bodies, and high-precision observational astronomy, to name a few.
Commercial New Space services and capabilities growth has been spectacular. The objective of this session is to engage the imagination of the science community, to prepare for a future where a myriad of SmallSat capabilities will allow for the ability to pose new and unique questions that can only be addressed through these available platforms and commercial services.
We will invite current and future mission PIs to present and discuss the potential opportunities and possibilities of commercial partnerships on how to take advantage of products, services, and infrastructure to support future SmallSat science missions. Additionally, we will discuss how to balance the risk of adopting industry services and capabilities versus the traditional approaches, to make transformative science measurements to achieve our decadal-driven goals.
Index Terms:
0399 General or miscellaneous [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
7599 General or miscellaneous [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7899 General or miscellaneous [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Florence Tan, NASA Headquarters, Science Missions Directorate, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners: Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Assessment of Spire Global GNSS-RO and GNSS-R Measurements for Ionosphere and Earth Surface Remote Sensing Applications (1129134)
Yu Morton1, Yang Wang2, Lei Liu3, Carolyn Roesler3, Jiahua Zhang4, Margaret Scott3, Sophie Anderson2, R Steven Nerem5 and Swastik Bhattacharya2, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
