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Appendix D: Report Findings
Pages 139-142

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... However, the new CubeSat Ideas Lab initiative, if continued, will reinstate the program to the level that was recommended in the decadal survey. 3.3.1 F3.4: NASA and NSF have provided a number of opportunities for the science community to add to the array of diverse observing platforms that enable Heliophysics science, including a robust and growing NASA CubeSat program, continuation of a strong suborbital program, and creation of a NSF Midscale facilities program.
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From page 140...
... In addition, NASA has continued to fund the Heliophysics Summer School. The former has a focus on beginning students and modeling of space weather, while the latter is more targeted to basic research science for advanced graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
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From page 141...
... The development of a scientific gap analysis, and an associated prioritization of required observables, models, data systems, and R2O/O2R projects are needed in order to develop a well-founded budget for the NSWSAP-related tasks of NASA, NSF, NOAA, and other agencies. 4.2.2 F4.3: Currently, the combination of ACE and DISCOVR in-situ particle and field measurements at L1, the GOES solar EUV imager and solar EUV and X-ray irradiance sensors at GEO, the ground-based GONG network for solar magnetograms, and the SOHO LASCO coronagraph at L1 provide the primary set of space weather monitoring assets, with support from SDO solar observations at GEO and STEREO solar and in-situ observations in an Earth trailing/leading orbit.
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... 6.1 F6.1: Community analysis group workshops and funded mission concept development for defining critical science goals and related mission concepts as employed by NASA's Planetary Science Division and Astrophysics Division in preparation for their decadal surveys have been productive for broader and deeper definitions of strategic mission concepts based on key science objectives and any emerging technology important for future missions. This midterm assessment committee emphasizes that the science objectives and related measurement requirements are more important to define than specific missions / facilities.
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