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SST EDSN NODeS SST ISARA SST (ORB) SST (ORB) SST (ORB) SST (ORB) SST (ORB) SST (ORB) 

SST Phonesat 2.5 DSAC SST CPOD GCD (SR) LCRD GCD (SR) GCD (SR) GCD (SR) GCD (SR) GCD 

GPIM Nanocomposite Fairing SST (ORB) SEP Demo TDM (ORB) SST (ORB) TDM (ORB) SST (ORB) TDM (ORB) SST (ORB) TDM (ORB) SST (O

FO (SR) - 4 SST EDSN FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (SR

OCSD FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/C) - 4 FO (A/

FO (A/C) - 4 FO (SR) - 4 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRSLP)- 2 FO (CRS

FO - Virgin Galactic FO (A/C) - 4 TDM (ORB) TDM (ORB) TDM (ORB) TDM (ORB) TDM (O

FO (CRSLP)- 2

EFT-1 EM-1^ AA-2 EM-2^ EM-3^ EM-4^ EM-

CCiCap/Test CCiCap/Test CCiCap/Test

CCiCap/Test CCiCap/Test CCiCap/Test

CCiCap/Test CCiCap/Test

TDRS-L TDRS-M***** TDRS-4G-1 TDRS-4G-2 TDRS-4G-3 TDRS-4G-4

SpaceX CRS SpaceX CRS SpaceX CRS Orbital CRS Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo

SpaceX CRS SpaceX CRS SpaceX CRS Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo

Orbital CRS SpaceX CRS SpaceX CRS Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo

Orbital CRS SpaceX CRS SpaceX CRS Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo

Orbital CRS Orbital CRS Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo

Orbital CRS Orbital CRS Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo Future Cargo

Orbital CRS

Exp-38 Exp-42 Exp-46 Exp-50 Exp-54 Exp-58 Exp-62 Exp-66 Exp-70 Exp-74 Exp-78

Exp-39 Exp-43 Exp-47 Exp-51 Exp-55 Exp-59 Exp-63 Exp-67 Exp-71 Exp-75 Exp-79Exp-40 Exp-44 Exp-48 Exp-52 Exp-56 Exp-60 Exp-64 Exp-68 Exp-72 Exp-76 Exp-80Exp-41 Exp-45 Exp-49 Exp-53 Exp-57 Exp-61 Exp-65 Exp-69 Exp-73 Exp-77 Exp-81

55-SOF(FOC) Astro EX-2

ST-7 ISS-CREAM JWST Euclid AFTA/WFIRST 

TESS Astro SMEX Astro SMEX Astro SMEX Astro SMEX Astro S

Astro-H NICER Astro MoO Astro MoO Astro MoO Astro MoO Astro 

18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-Bal 18-B

GPM Core SMAP ICESat-2 PACE SWOT ASCENDS

SAGE-III*** GRACE FO L-Band SAR ESDS ESDS-2 ESD

EVS-1* OCO-3 MoO& CYGNSS EVS-2* EVM-2 EVS-3* EVM-3 EVS

OCO-2 TEMPO EVI-2 MoO& EVI-3 MoO& EVI-4 MoO& EVI-5 MoO& EVI-6 MoO& EVI-7 M

25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-Air 25-A

MMS ICON SPP Solar Orb Helio MoO Helio MoO Helio MoO 

SET-1 GOLD Helio EX-2 Helio SMEX Helio SMEX 

STP-5 Helio SMEX STP-6 Helio SMEX Helio 

20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-SR 20-S

MAVEN Strofio*** Disc-13% Disc-14% Disc-15 

Insight MOMA*** Mars-2020 Mars-2024 

OSIRIS-Rex JUICE NewFront4% 

TCTE DSCOVR GOES-R GOES-S Metop-C GOES-T JPSS-2 GOES-U

Jason-3 TSIS-1- SIDAR JPSS-1 ADCS/SARSAT- SIDAR

Airspace Operations and 

Safety

Advanced Air Vehicles

Integrated Aviation Systems

Rev 6-13-2014

* Ground-based elements (includes suborbital) ** Option*** Instrument only   Content TBD ** *** No Launch Service% Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS) planned& MoO dates are for instrument delivery to spacecraftCommercial crew transportation services to ISS planned two flights per year starting in CY2018^ SLS and Orion vehicle only - destination/mission elements TBD

Milestones on Page 2 

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Space Operations

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Astrophysics

Earth Sciences

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LEGEND

Heliophysics

Planetary Science

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International Space Station Operations

ISS Transition/Retirement

NASA Internal use only
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 Improve arrival operations efficiency while increasing arrival throughput using integrated aircraft-based and ground-based automation technologies. 

 Document an approach for creating a safety-case framework for representative adaptive, i.e. autonomous, functionality. 

 Establish the basis for safe air/ground functional allocation for separation assurance including safe, graceful degradation of performance.

 Mitigate problems and contributing factors that lead to flight crew loss of airplane state awareness

 Simultaneously increase arrivals, departures, and surface operations efficiency while safely increasing overall throughput.

 Develop a real/live, virtual, and constructive environment where NAS-level performance, safety, and benefits can be examined in an integ

 Increase efficiency and safety of flights by enabling trajectory-based operation

 Demonstrate integrated decision making 

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 Characterize in flight gaseous and particulate cruise emissions of alternative fuels such as hydroprocessed esters and fatty acid (HEFA) blended jet fuels and zero-sulfur jet fuel.  Validate high fidelity analysis tools and design techniques applicable to the creation of low sonic boom supersonic aircraft, including all key relevant features such as inlet and nozzle flow.

 Conduct a round-robin benchmark evaluation of progressive damage analysis methodologies applicable to the first level of the building block (BB) approach to develop and certify composite structures. Deliver test results for first level o

 Characterize potential benefit of vehicle-integrated boundary-layer ingesting propulsion systems for a representative vehicle at TRL3.  Demonstrate significant advances in variable speed power turbine technology and two-speed drive systems to enable fast and more efficient advanced rotorcraft configurations. Demonstrate lightweight aircraft quieting technologies and characterize the potential benefit/trades of an active flow control system that provides high lift for subsonic fixed wing aircraft.

 Demonstrate indoor and outdoor noise metrics, survey tools and test protocols required for the study of community response to overflight of low boom supersonic aircraft

 Demonstrate advanced low-emission, fuel-flexible (LE-FF) combustor concepts for emission reduction to 80% below CAEP6 standards via flametube tests. 

 Demonstrate through analysis and component testing technologies that enable a 50% fuel burn reduction/50% CO2 emissions reduction 

 Demonstrate throug

 Evaluate concepts related to UAS for separation assurance, sense and avoid, and ground contol stations with communication system performance estimates through an Integrated Human in the Loop (IHITL) simulation to provide data for futher technolo

 Complete flight test of the Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge technology which contributes to weight reduction and therefore the fuel burn goal of the ERA project Demonstrate the Low NOx combustor in the full annular rig ground test to validate predicted reductions of Landing and Takeoff (LTO) and Cruise NOx emissions

 Complete ultra high bypass integrated systems test contributing to the goal of the ERA project to reduce fuel burn by 50% at the air craft system level

 Complete the Active Flow Control enhanced vertical tail flight test supporting the ERA drag reduction challenge Complete high-speed performance testing of an ultra high bypass engine integrated with a hybrid wing body (semi-span)

 Flight test of the individual UAS-NAS subproject technologies integrated in a live flight environment representing the National Airspace System

 Deliver final recommendations for procedures and performance standards to enable UAS integration in the air transportation system

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NOTIONAL OUT YEAR

LEGEND

FY15 Agency Mission Planning Model (AM

Aligned with FY15 Congressional Request

NOTIONAL OUT YEAR

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Acronym Definition/Explanation ('x' denotes total or increment number) Mission Directorate

A/C aircraft STMD

DSAC Deep Space Atomic Clock STMD

FO (A/C) - x Flight Opportunity Program, x aircraft flights STMD

FO (GT) - x Flight Opportunity Program, x ground tests STMD

FO (SR) - x Flight Opportunity Program, x sounding rocket launches STMD

FO (CRSLP) - x Flight Opportunity Program, x commercial reusable suborbital launch providers (e.g. Virgin Galactic/ XCOR/ Blue Origin/ others) STMD

GCD (SR) Game Changing Development sounding rocket flight STMD

GPIM Green Propellant Infusion Mission STMD

GT ground test STMD

LCRD Laser Communications Relay Demonstration STMD

MISSE-X Materials International Space Station Experiment-X STMD

OCSD Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration STMD

ORB orbiter STMD

SR sounding rocket STMD

SSD Solar Sail Demo STMD

SST (ORB) Small Spacecraft Technology mission - orbiter STMD

TDM (ORB) Tech Demo Mission - orbiter STMD

AA-x Ascent Abort Test #x HEOMD, Exploration

CC Dev/Test Commercial Crew Development Test HEOMD, Exploration

EFT-1 Exploration Flight Test-1 HEOMD, Exploration

EM-x Exploration Mission #x HEOMD, Exploration

Exp-x Expedition #x HEOMD, Space Operations

FOC Full Operational Capability HEOMD, Space Operations

Future Cargo Future Commercial Resupply Service mission (service provider TBD) HEOMD, Space Operations

ISS International Space Station HEOMD, Space Operations

Orbital CRS Orbital Science Commercial Resupply Service mission HEOMD, Space Operations

SGSS Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment HEOMD, Space Operations

SpaceX CRS SpaceX Commercial Resupply Service mission HEOMD, Space Operations

TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite HEOMD, Space Operations

TDRS-4G-x Tracking and Data Relay Satellite 4th Generation Spacecraft #x HEOMD, Space Operations

AFTA/WFIRST Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets/Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope SMD, Astrophysics

Astro EX-x Astrophysics Explorer Mission #x SMD, Astrophysics

Astro MoO Astrophysics Mission of Opportunity SMD, Astrophysics

Astro SMEX Astrophysics Small Explorer Mission SMD, Astrophysics

Astro-H also known as NeXT (New X-ray Telescope) Mission SMD, Astrophysics

Astro-x Astrophysics Decadal Mission #x SMD, Astrophysics

ESA European Space Agency SMD, Astrophysics

HST Disposal Hubble Space Telescope Disposal Mission SMD, Astrophysics

ISS-CREAM Cosmic-Ray Energetics and Mass on ISS SMD, Astrophysics

JWST James Webb Space Telescope SMD, Astrophysics

L2 2nd Lagrangian Point SMD, Astrophysics

NICER Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer SMD, Astrophysics

SOF SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) SMD, Astrophysics

ST-7 New Millennium Program Space Technology Mission #7 (Lisa Pathfinder) SMD, Astrophysics

TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite SMD, Astrophysics

xx-Bal number of balloon flights SMD, Astrophysics

xx-SOF number of SOFIA observations SMD, Astrophysics

ASCENDS Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons Mission SMD, Earth Science

CYGNSS Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System Mission SMD, Earth Science

ESDS-x Earth Science Decadal Survey Mission #x SMD, Earth Science

EVI-x MoO& Earth Venture Instrument Mission of Opportunity SMD, Earth Science

EVM-x Earth Venture Mission #x SMD, Earth Science

EVS-x Earth Venture Suborbital campaign SMD, Earth Science

GPM Core Global Precipitation Measurement Core SMD, Earth Science

GRACE FO Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On Mission SMD, Earth Science

ICESat-x Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite Mission #x SMD, Earth Science

L-Band SAR L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) SMD, Earth Science

OCO-x Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission #x SMD, Earth Science

PACE Pre-Aerosol, Clouds, and ocean Ecosystem Mission SMD, Earth Science

SAGE-III Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment 3 on ISS SMD, Earth Science

SMAP Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission SMD, Earth Science

SWOT Surface Water Ocean Topography Mission SMD, Earth Science

TEMPO Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution Mission SMD, Earth Science

xx-Air number of aircraft flights SMD, Earth Science

GOLD Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk Mission SMD, Heliophysics

Helio EX-x Heliophysics Explorer Mission #x SMD, Heliophysics

Helio MoO Heliophysics Explorer Mission of Opportunity SMD, Heliophysics

Helio SMEX Heliophysics Small Explorer Mission SMD, Heliophysics

ICON Ionospheric Connection Explorer SMD, Heliophysics

LWS-x Living with a Star Mission #x SMD, Heliophysics

MMS Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission SMD, Heliophysics

SET-x Space Environment Testbed Mission #x SMD, Heliophysics

Solar Orb Solar Orbiter Collaboration SMD, Heliophysics

SPP Solar Probe Plus SMD, Heliophysics

STP-x Solar Terrestrial Probe Mission #x SMD, Heliophysics

xx-SR number of sounding rocket flights SMD, Heliophysics

Disc-xx Discovery Mission #x SMD, Planetary Science

Insight Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport Mission SMD, Planetary Science

JUICE JUpiter ICy moons Explorer Mission SMD, Planetary Science

MAVEN Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission SMD, Planetary Science

MOMA Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer SMD, Planetary Science

Mission Data Sources

Space Technology Missions Directorate (STMD)

Human Exploration and Operations (HEOMD)

Science Mission Directorate (SMD)

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD)