# Presentation: 580394

## Planetary Science Division Update Presentation at the Planetary Data System

- James L. Green
- Director, Planetary Science Division
- March 28, 2007

## Administrative Changes

- Key Civil Servant positions have been filled:
- James L. Green, Director
- James Adams, Deputy Director
- Civil servant positions to be filled (are on hold)
- Discovery Program Executive
- A Discovery Program Scientist
- Other staff changes and positions filled:
- Alan Harmon, Detailed from DOE new Program Executive for Radio-isotope Power Systems
- Kelly Snook, Lunar Science Liaison with ESMD
- Tom Morgan detailed to GSFC as Senior Scientist for Lunar Exploration

## Division Activities

- Current Academy reviews:
- PSD- based on the NASA Authorization 2005
- Planetary Performance Assessment Committee formed (meetings: Feb. 22, 2007....)
- How well is PSD addressing the strategies, goals, and priorities outlined in Academy reports
- Evaluate NAI’s success leading to reshaping the future of astrobiology activity
- Request to be issued to COMPLEX - providing guidelines for the selection of candidate missions for the next NF

## FY07 Budget Implications

**What Stayed the Same:**
- Discovery 2006 and Mars Scout AO’s on track
- Selected 3 Discovery full-class and 3 Mission of Opportunity (MoO) missions concept studies
- Selected 2 Mars Scout full-class and 1MoO and 2 MoOs for technology development
- One Mars mission per opportunity
- Phoenix scheduled for launch in August 2007 and MSL in 2009
- New Frontiers AO #3 no later than 2008
- Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), selected as a Discovery MoO, on schedule to launch on the ISRO Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft
- Continues operations of Mars Rovers (Spirit, Opportunity), Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), MESSENGER, ASPERA-3, New Horizons, Cassini, and Rosetta

## FY07 Budget Implications (cont.)

**What’s Changed:**_** **_
- Funds Dawn for a launch in June 2007
- Funds Juno for a launch in August 2011
- Confirms and provides additional funding for Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) to reduce schedule risk for 2009 launch
- Adds a new Lunar Science Research project to enhance opportunity for lunar scientific discovery
- Funds Outer Planets mission concept studies
- Planetary Research and Analysis (R&A) changes:
- Provides partial restoration (~$5.8M) of the 15% cut
- Funds Mars rovers through FY07
- Transfers Deep Space Network to the Space Operations Missions Directorate (SOMD) but kept the navigation tools & systems
- Transfers Near Earth Objects (NEO) to Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD)

## Planetary Science Division

## New Lunar Science Project

- Science funding wedge from FY08 - FY13
- Key elements of Lunar Science Project:
- PSD will support scientific utilization of ESMD’s LRO data obtained through the ROSES R&A program
- Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research
- LRO Participating Scientist program
- PSD will assume responsibility for operation of LRO after ESMD completes its prime mission phase (~1yr)
- Operations, science teams, and data archiving
- Upgrade to Planetary Data System to handle LRO data
- Potential Mission of Opportunities through Announcements of Opportunities (AO)

## Current Mission Status

- Mars: MRO, MER-1, MER-2, Mars Odyssey
*Upcoming Launches*: MSL and Phoenix
- Discovery: MESSENGER, Deep Impact, Stardust
*Upcoming Launch*: Dawn
- Lunar Science Research Project
*Upcoming Launch & Extended Mission:* LRO
- New Frontiers: New Horizons
*Upcoming Launch*: Juno
- Flagships: Cassini/Huygens at Saturn
*Upcoming Launch*: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
- International: Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta, Hayabusa, and ExoMars
*Upcoming Launch*: Moon Mineralogy Mapper - Chandrayan

## Planetary Mission Future Events

- Planetary Division launches (green)
- Planetary mission events (red)
- Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (blue)

## Cassini Senior Review 

- Senior Review held February 15, 2007
- Prime mission July 2004 – July 2008
- Cassini spacecraft virtually 100% operational
- Proposed extended mission goes to July 2010
- Extended mission science goals include:
- Titan (26 encounters)
- Enceladus (7 encounters + Rhea, Dione)
- Observe Saturn System thru Aug. ‘09 equinox
- Estimate ~46% of hydrazine will remains at end of the extended mission
- Important for end of life to retain adequate fuel
- Panel recommendations and findings were sent to NASA Headquarters on March 9, 2007
- HQ announcement at OPAG (May 1-2, 2007)

*The extended mission plan includes 2 ~ 25 km passes thru Enceladus’ plume.  Prime observations on curved line.*

## Ices, Oceans, and Fire:Satellites of the Outer Solar System

- Purpose is to bring together researchers to share their work in the broader context of common processes and unique properties shaping the satellites of the outer solar system
- The goal of the conference is to promote cross fertilization of research among small communities focused on specific satellites
- Papers in special issue of JGR-Planets
- August 13-15 in Boulder, CO

- http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/icysat2007/home.shtml

## Discovery at 15: Looking Backward Looking Forward

- Open to the scientific community
- All former Discovery Principal Investigators, Project Managers, and Education/Public Outreach Leads
- Session include:
- Invited talks
- Contributed posters on mission concepts and new technologies
- September 19-20, 2007 in Huntsville, AL

## PSD R&A Program

- ROSES 2007 Released on February 16, 2007

## New PSD R&A Policy

- Issued February 20, 2007 - effective immediately
- Applies to all PSD R&A elements in ROSES
- Rapid notification and funding procedure
- Within four weeks of the review panel I expect to sign an “initial Selection Decision Document” or SDD - within 2 weeks goal!
- Proposals are in “Selected, Selectable, Not Selected” categories
- Selectable proposals are those in competitive range that may have a chance to be selected pending identification of funds
- Letters issued to all with Selected proposals funded
- As funding becomes available/identified a new addendum is added to the SDD and signed then those proposals in the Selectable range are funded
- With final budget authority,letters sent to the selectable but deferred category are notified of their non-selection

## PSD R&A Program for ROSES 2006

## Recent Signed off Selections

- Planetary Geology & Geophysics - Normal Selection
- Proposals due May 5, 2006
- Peer Review Panel in July 30 - August 4, 2006
- Decision Document signed March 6, 2007
- 49 selected; 52 declined (49% selection rate)
- Average grant size: $67K/year
- MESSENGER Participating Scientist Program - New Rules
- Proposals due July 7, 2006
- Peer Review Panel in November 7-9, 2006
- Decision Document signed March 6, 2007
- 20 selected; 6 selectable; 26 declined (38-50% selection rate)
- Average grant size: $78K/year

## * New PSD R&A elements

- Astrobiology: Exobiology And Evolutionary Biology (pending)
- Astrobiology Science & Technology Instrument Development & Mission Concept (pending)
- Astrobiology Science And Technology For Exploring Planets
- Cassini Data Analysis
- Cosmochemistry
- Discovery Data Analysis
- Early Career Fellowships
- In-Space Propulsion (pending)
**Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research ***
- [Near Earth Object Observations --- Funded by ESMD -- to be release in ROSES 2007]** **
**New Horizons at Jupiter Data Analysis ***
- Origins of the Solar System
- Outer Planets Research
**Lunar Participating Scientist Program * **[Not posted yet]
- Planetary Astronomy
- Planetary Atmospheres
- Planetary Geology And Geophysics
- Planetary Instrument Definition And Development
- Planetary Major Equipment
- Planetary Protection Research
- Mars Data Analysis
- Mars Fundamental Research
- Mars Instrument Development
- Mars Technology Project (pending)
- Sample Return Laboratory Instruments & Data Analysis

- PSD R&A Program for ROSES 2007

## Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research (LASER)

- • LASER R&A will appear in ROSES 2007 and supports:
- Basic Lunar Science
- Exploration Lunar Science (Applied)
- Lunar Data Analysis of data within PDS
- Lunar Data Restoration - data than needs to go into PDS
- Ground-based observational support of LCROSS impact
*No selection quotas for (a)-(e)*
*Proposals that span the Basic(a)-Exploration(b) science continuum encouraged*
- • Funding ~ $2-3M/year (Co-Funded: PSD-ESMD)
- • Seeking 1, 2, or 3 year proposals
- • LRO Participating Scientist will be a separate call in 2007

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## Future Challenges 

- An active archive is the communities first interface to our planetary data
- Continually improving services:
- Easy of finding information & data
- Within a node and across the system
- Amount of online data
- Look at what the other disciplines are doing and how they are doing it
- Borrow when needed

## Overview of R&A Awards

- Success rate = Awarded / Total number of proposals
- FY07 Provides partial restoration of the 15% cut (~$5.8M)

- Highest Priority
- for Augmentation

## Top Priority R&A Programs for Additional Funding 

- Astrobiology: Exobiology & Evol. Biology
- Astrobiology Science & Technical Inst. Dev.
- Mars Data Analysis
- Mars Fundamental Research
- Outer Planets Research
- Planetary Instrument Definition & Development
- Planetary Protection Research
- Augmentation rules:
- Astrobiology will have special consideration
- Intent will be to fund all “Excellent Proposals”

## Grant Processing Status

- Check the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) website for grant status

- http://www.nssc.nasa.gov/grantstatus

## http://www.nssc.nasa.gov/grantstatus

**PI Name**
**Technical Officer**
**Grant Number **
**Program/Center**
**Proposal Title**
**Institution**