Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities: Request for Community Input
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate recently embraced as a standard practice the concept of exploiting opportunities for secondary science payloads on launches with excess mass capacity. The
National Academies Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) has been asked by NASA's Heliophysics Division to prepare a short report discussing possible elements of a program with the flexibility and agility to respond to such emergent rideshare opportunities.
The CSSP is seeking community input on this topic, in particular with regards to the following topics:
Input may be contributed by using the input form found at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/SSB/SSB_052324