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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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... In particular, SMD stated that it would be adding Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter "ESPA ring" accommodations for additional payloads when excess capacity is available on future mission launches.5 One recent example is the call for secondary payloads for the NASA Heliophysics Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)
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... These initial inputs guided the agenda for the CSSP October 22-24, 2019, meeting, where further presentations and discussions occurred involving the committee, three panels of experts from the solar and space physics research and commercial spaceflight communities, along with representatives from NASA HPD, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geospace Section, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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