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Grading NASA's Solar System Exploration Program: A Midterm Report
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Acronyms
AFL Astrobiology Field Laboratory
AMTEC Alkali Metal Thermoelectric Converter
AO Announcement of Opportunity
ASPERA Analyzer of Space Plasma and Energetic Atoms
ASRG Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator
ASTEP Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets
ASTID Astrobiology Science and Technology Instrument Development
CDR Critical Design Review
CETDP Cross-Enterprise Technology Development Program
CEV Crew Exploration Vehicle
CONTOUR Comet Nucleus Tour
CRISM Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars
CSSR Comet Surface Sample Return
DAP data analysis program
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DIXI Deep Impact Extended Investigation
DS-1 Deep Space-1
DSN Deep Space Network
EPOXI Extrasolar Planet Observations and Characterization (EPOCh) and Deep Impact eXtended Investigation (DIXI)
ESA European Space Agency
GSMT Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope
HiVHAC High Voltage Hall Accelerator
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Grading NASA's Solar System Exploration Program: A Midterm Report
IMEWG International Mars Exploration Working Group
IRTF Infrared Telescope Facility
ISPT In-Space Propulsion Technology
ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations
JIMO Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter
JWST James Webb Space Telescope
LIBS Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
LRO Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
LSST Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
M3 Moon Mineralogy Mapper
MAVEN Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (mission)
MEP Mars Exploration Program
MEPAG Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group
MER Mars Exploration Rover
MESSENGER Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging
MEX Mars Express
MIDP Mars Instrument Development Project
ML3N Mars Long-Lived Lander Network
MMRTG Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
MoO mission of opportunity
MRO Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
MSL Mars Science Laboratory
MSO Mars Science Orbiter
MSR Mars Sample Return
MTP Mars Technology Project
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEO Near Earth Object
NEP nuclear-electric propulsion
NExT (Stardust) New Exploration of Tempel 1
NEXT NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster
NRA NASA Research Announcement
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
OE Orbital Express
PDS Planetary Data System
PI principal investigator
PIDDP Planetary Instrument Definition and Development Program
PSD Planetary Science Division
R&A research and analysis
REP radioisotope electric propulsion
RORSAT radar-ocean reconnaissance satellite
ROSES Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
RPCT Radioisotope Power Converter Technology
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Grading NASA's Solar System Exploration Program: A Midterm Report
RPS radioisotope power system
RTG Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
SAG Science Analysis Group
SDT science definition team
SEP solar electric propulsion
SMD Science Mission Directorate
SSD Solar System Division
SSE Solar System Exploration
TAG Technology Assessment Group
TGE Traverse Gravimeter Experiment
TRL technology readiness level
VEX Venus Express
VEXAG Venus Exploration Analysis Group