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Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities for the NASA Heliophysics Division (2020) / Chapter Skim
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5 Implementation
Pages 13-18

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... A streamlined proposal and review process could include a rolling solicitation process analogous to that used for the SIMPLEx program.2 In particular, the committee envisions a program with reduced NASA oversight of the secondary payload design and build phases in order to maximize efficiency and minimize cost. Formal preship review of all documentation and test data will continue to be critical to ensure successful integration and operation of the secondary 1 NASA, "NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)
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From page 14...
... Minimum acceptable CVV-level requirements could be defined prior to delivery. Calibration of comparable sensors built by different institutions is a specific CVV challenge that could also require cross-calibration to ensure adequate understanding of individual sensor performance and lab calibration response.3 Another challenge to overcome is that the teams that build the sensors have the advantage over third-party organizations in carrying out CVV activities owing to the former's scientific and technical heritage.
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From page 15...
... , and soliciting community input in the form of white papers. Finding: Key elements that would characterize potential secondary payloads for the agile rideshare program may include scientific benefit, secondary payload specifications, requirements on launch 4 Some of these data may be proprietary or competition-sensitive in nature and require appropriate protections.
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From page 16...
... For enhanced effectiveness in managing heterogeneous distributed arrays, the facility could provide a mechanism to support advanced or novel techniques for calibration across multiple instruments and mitigation or adaptation to nonideal accommodation by the host platform. An agile rideshare program may facilitate opportunities to build secondary payload development networks that engage new groups in heliophysics research and space technology.
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From page 17...
... -- for example, the suite of Virtual Observatories.13 Finding: The effectiveness of a new agile rideshare program may benefit from strategic investments to enable innovative management structures, increased TRL of enabling technologies, easy access to data archives, and broad community engagement with the program. Risk Tolerance Traditional NASA HPD flight programs are intolerant of risk that may jeopardize the success of the mission.
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From page 18...
... Finding: The effectiveness of an agile rideshare program may inherently depend upon some risk tolerance to the secondary payload in terms of performance or scientific return; however, substantially increased risk to the primary payload, host platform, or launch vehicle is not acceptable. Taken together, the findings in this section support the committee's conclusion, as follows: Conclusion: Implementation approaches aimed at optimizing the effectiveness of a new HPD agile rideshare program may include strategic investments in innovative infrastructure and management approaches along with risk tolerance that extends beyond the accepted norms of traditional HPD programs.
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