This workshop will chart a course for the new field of stellar particle environment observation and observation-guided modeling.
The workshop's final product will be a mutually-supporting list of experiments, models, and observations that will best determine Uranus's interior structure and bulk composition.
This workshop will develop a credible framework for a comprehensive SOC data analysis, modeling and prediction system that will enable accurate tracking of SOC changes from landscape to regional and national soils.
This workshop will develop a new framework for biological validation for future missions with science driving the instrument development.
This workshop will examine non-destructive instrumentation to detect biosignatures and sampling techniques to collect and preserve microhabitats while retaining the spatial context.
This workshop will unite experts in small bodies science, relevant instruments, ISO and LPC design, and mission implementation to tackle some of the most challenging aspects of developing and executing a mission to an LPC, ISO, or NEO.
This workshop will review current and planned Earth observations and the national and international landscapes associated with their continuity.
This workshop will identify the mission lifecycle changes required to explore an ISO and LPC and will dive deeper into “rapid response”, develop strategies and identify technologies to enable the up-close exploration of the next ISO or LPC discovered.
This workshop will examine non-destructive instrumentation to detect biosignatures and sampling techniques to collect and preserve microhabitats while retaining the spatial context.
This workshop will review current and planned Earth observations and the national and international landscapes associated with their continuity.
This workshop will systematically analyze feasibility, science return, and paths forward for architectures that collect samples at multiple locations for return to a longer-lived airborne laboratory.
This is the second workshop on Next-Generation Planetary Geodesy that will continue to focus on Mars, Venus, and Ocean Worlds of the outer solar system and analyze spacecraft-to-spacecraft technologies.
This workshop will conceive the mission architecture to access the Martian surface (entry-descent-landing; EDL) and conduct efficient operations of multiple Mars assets.
This workshop brought artists and scientists together to explore the sensory interpretation of NASA science data.
This workshop will systematically analyze feasibility, science return, and paths forward for architectures that collect samples at multiple locations for return to a longer-lived airborne laboratory.
This workshop will focus on Mars, Venus, and Ocean Worlds of the outer solar system, and consider technologies such as spacecraft-to-spacecraft ranging, gradiometers, and the deployment of retroreflectors and radio beacons on planetary surfaces.
The goal of this workshop is to explore approaches to the next-generation planetary radar capable of providing compelling science and offer NASA mission assurance by being able to track spacecraft.
The goal of this workshop is to identify the feasibility issues and possible solutions for an outer solar system exploration that requires no use of nuclear power sources.
This workshop will conceive the mission architecture to access the Martian surface (entry-descent-landing; EDL) and conduct efficient operations of multiple Mars assets.
This workshop will investigate innovation for detecting and tracking costly fires that affect human life, infrastructure, and the Earth system.
This is a second workshop to explore fundamental questions in black hole physics, and determine what EHT enhancements, as well as new directions, will allow us to answer those questions.
This workshop aims to explore how planned and potential exploratory microwave observations from space and their synergism with optical, hyperspectral, and/or thermal sensing can be used in sensing forest water dynamics from space.
How can we ensure that there is sufficient storage and computational capability for large quantities of data to be gathered, pre-processed and selected for optimal downlink to make the most of the bits that the Deep Space Network (DSN) can support?
The goal of this workshop is to explore approaches to the next-generation planetary radar capable of providing compelling science and motivating NASA science missions as well as potentially providing NASA mission assurance by being able to track spacecraft.
The goal of this workshop is to quickly assemble an interdisciplinary team of scientists, researchers and engineers to begin addressing the questions of COVID-19 impact on the climate system.
This workshop will determine the pathways for organic materials to be transported from the atmosphere to surface and eventually to the subsurface ocean and whether the physical and chemical processes in the ocean create stable, habitable environments.
This workshop will provide an estimate of the biological and biosignature potential of any ocean world and will aim to answer a question: On which ocean worlds, and with what measurements, will we have the greatest potential to successfully detect the presence of life?
The focus of this workshop is to greatly increase our current capacity to understand and predict the response of forest ecosystems to droughts and links between water and carbon processes in the earth’s biosphere.
A goal of this workshop is to explore fundamental questions in black hole physics, and determine what EHT enhancements, as well as new directions, will allow us to answer those questions.
The purpose of this workshop is to study how to reduce risk in future missions, accelerate science discovery, and enable a new class of high-data-rate, deep space science missions by taking advantage of high-performance spaceflight computing and data storage.
The focus of this workshop is new approaches toward the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe.
This workshop will address how the biodiversity and remote sensing communities can work together to implement a biodiversity monitoring system.
This workshop will review and integrate recent scientific advances, identify the key gaps in our current framework for understanding tides and tidal heating, and outline the specific requirements for bridging these gaps.
This workshop will explore how smallsats can be used to address the many challenges intrinsic to small body encounters in excess of 50 km/s and enable wholesome science investigations over a short observation window.
This workshop will review and integrate recent scientific advances, identify the key gaps in our current framework for understanding tides and tidal heating, and outline the specific requirements for bridging these gaps.
The focus of this workshop is to advance progress towards the development of a global biodiversity observation system and to explore how the fusion of diverse remote sensing measurements can contribute to monitoring biodiversity change.
This workshop will evaluate planetary surface construction for the moon and explore navigation and communication challenges for lunar mission.
This workshop workshop will explore the Technology Requirements for a potential mission to the Solar Gravity Lens Focus.
This workshop will address the design and concept of future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments and in particular a future CMB satellite to extract cosmological information from the polarized CMB photons.
This workshop is the incubator for determining science questions, key technologies, collaborations, strategies, and mission proposals that will make deep and wide Mars subsurface access a feasible and affordable reality beyond Mars 2020.
This workshop will explore the capabilities of the space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA and its unparalleled science returns.
This workshop will develop viable concepts for orbital and surface implementations of a PLD mission, and identify key technology gaps that could be addressed with near-term and long-term investments.
This workshop will determine the effect of surface hardness on sampling and drilling technology and identify case scenarios to address the extremes.
This workshop will evaluate the question of accessing the subsurface oceans of icy worlds of Europa and Enceladus in order to explore these water oceans and to discover the presence of alien extant life.
This workshop will evaluate recent breakthroughs in measurement capability and leverage recent collaborative activities within the OCS and SIF communities.
This workshop will identify future opportunities to leverage existing facilities for the study of Mars ice analog samples, and testing hardware for future missions.
In this second workshop, we will analyze how rapid progress in telerobotic technology might change the face of space exploration on the timescale foreseen for sending humans to Mars.
This workshop will determine the science impact tradeoffs for a series of temperature ranges for a cryogenic comet nucleus sample return mission.
In this second workshop, we will dive deeper into the current challenges, in order to craft recommendations for further investment from our sponsors and key stakeholders.
The second workshop will refocus on conceptual instrument designs, and on identifying technology development work packages. An ancillary goal will be to consolidate the complementarity and synergies between ground- and space-based platforms.
The aim of this workshop will be a critical review of a new space exploration approach: field scientific research on planetary surfaces conducted by astronaut/scientists using robotic surrogates.
The main technical goals will be to identify specific photoelectrochemical pathways that are well suited for carbon dioxide reduction in the unique Mars environment, as well as viable designs for scalable Mars oxygen and fuel production devices.
This workshop will evaluate the development of statistically grounded strategies for detecting faint signals in the presence of both coherent and incoherent backgrounds.
This study will bring together space scientists, technologists, and mission designers to understand the current limitations faced by SmallSat science missions stemming from the communication bottleneck.
This workshop will examine the photoelectrochemical production of fuel (such as carbon monoxide) and oxygen from carbon dioxide on the Mars surface.
Under this program, an interdisciplinary group of experts will develop an exploration and technology-development strategy for resolving methane sources and sinks on Mars. We will explore the best route for solving the profound puzzles arising from the recent detection of methane on Mars.
The goal of this workshop is to formulate space applications and mission concepts enabled by optical frequency comb technology and to identify high priority technology challenges and gaps that need to be addressed to implement these missions.
Under this program, an interdisciplinary group of experts will develop an exploration and technology-development strategy for resolving methane sources and sinks on Mars. We will explore the best route for solving the profound puzzles arising from the recent detection of methane on Mars.
The goal of this program is to formulate space applications and mission concepts enabled by optical frequency comb technology and to identify high priority technology challenges and gaps that need to be addressed to implement these missions.
The focus of this study is exploring new multi-instrument approaches to doing ecosystem science from space.
This is a follow-up workshop that analyzes terrestrial petroleum deposits isolated from liquid water, the methane-ethane seas of Titan, and CO2 above and below the critical point.
This study will consider how three-dimensional (3D) additive construction using in-situ resources can vastly decrease the launch mass required to establish exploration infrastructure on other planetary surfaces.
This study will investigate whether life could originate in hydrocarbon fluids using Titan as an exemplar of a low temperature exoplanetary surface. It will also investigate other fluids such as liquid and supercritical CO2 suggested to be present on exoplanets.
This study will bring mission designers together with experts in these technologies, resulting in a better understanding of where we can best apply these ideas in space science, and leading toward development of the most promising concepts.
The goals of the workshop are to articulate key scientific questions and derive mission objectives and preliminary design concepts that can be realized in the next two decades.
The purpose of this study program is to generate new ideas for new observations that can be used to constrain models and develop requirements for future instruments and space missions.
The technical challenge and the focus of the workshop is to assess mission implementation techniques that will enable affordable robotic probes to reach the ISM within 10 years.
At this workshop, a multidisciplinary group of scientists, engineers, and technologists will look for a solution to the challenge of mapping and assaying the NEO population quickly and affordably.
Read MoreThe goals of this program are to develop the science that can be teased out of spaceborne gazing, specific types of applications, and possible instrument configurations for future missions.
Read MoreThe goal of the study is to devise methods to determine the level of current seismic activity and constrain the global structure that would work in the severe environment of Venus.
We are seeking solutions that revolutionize space missions through a dramatic increase in the ability to survive extreme environments, leading to innovative types of lightweight and multifunctional structures.
This study investigates the feasibility of finding, characterizing, robotically capturing, and returning an entire Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) to the vicinity of the Earth for scientific investigation.
The focus of this second workshop will be to assess the current status of developing ground-based instruments, determine what proposals can or have been written for existing telescopes, and synthesize the results of study teams since the first workshop.
Read MoreAt the second workshop, we will review the findings from the subteams, which are focused on various aspects of the experimental design.
Read MoreThis study will explore integrated field programs and numerical studies to describe high frequency variability at the ocean-ice interface in Antarctica.
This summit will bring together the top experts in high-altitude ballooning and aerostat technology along with the scientists and experimentalists organizing the broad range of science goals emerging from the Airship study.
Read MoreThis study will develop innovative, low-cost mission concepts for detecting and mapping polar ice deposits on the Moon.
The principal goal of this study is to determine whether emerging technologies could enable crucial oceanographic and space science investigations.
Read MoreThe aim of this workshop is to inform scientists of the capabilities of airship vehicles as instrumental platforms.
Read MoreThis study will develop scientific requirements for an observing system to monitor the ocean conditions near key outlet glaciers and cultivate a new generation of sea level rise projections.
This study will assess the current state of knowledge about planetary magnetic fields, track the progress of the new ground-based instruments and develop observing strategies from existing optical/UV telescopes.
This study will develop innovative, low-cost mission concepts for detecting and mapping polar ice deposits on the Moon.
The goal of this workshop is to identify science observational/experimental projects that are uniquely addressed by airship vehicles, and determine which of these science goals could be simultaneously accommodated in one platform.
Read MoreThe goal of the proposed study program is to investigate the system capabilities, software architectures and autonomy technologies that will provide the needed resilience for these future missions.
The goal of this study is to develop new methods to test the radically new understanding of solar system formation that has recently emerged, and to identify innovative instrumentation targeted to this purpose.
The main objective of the second workshop is to identify the technology challenges that must be overcome to advance SmallSat capabilities for revolutionary space science observations.
The focus of this workshop is on a newly developed capacity to monitor chlorophyll fluorescence from terrestrial vegetation by satellite.
The goal of the proposed study program is to investigate the system capabilities, software architectures and autonomy technologies that will provide the needed resilience for future missions.
This workshop will bring together space scientists, technologists, and mission designers to conceive novel scientific observations enabled by small satellite systems.
This workshop will focus on concepts for low-frequency radio astronomy missions that are enabled by cubesat technologies. We plan to consider all aspects of such missions, from the science goals to concept definitions to specific technical challenges.
This study program aims at identifying the optimal combination of future ground-based and space-borne experiments in order to produce timely and definitive results.
The technical objectives of this workshop are to identify the set of application areas in space communications and sensing that could benefit from novel quantum-enhanced techniques.
The goal of this study is to develop new methods to test the radically new understanding of solar system formation that has recently emerged, and to identify innovative instrumentation targeted to this purpose.
The workshop will focus on key problems in the representation of physical processes in weather and climate models.
This workshop will bring together collaboration members from Caltech, JPL, NIST, and other participating institutions to summarize the progress made during the previous year and to discuss the project aims for the near future.
The aim of this workshop is to investigate the feasibility of finding, characterizing, robotically capturing, and returning an entire Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) to the vicinity of the Earth.
The goal for the closing workshop is to review some of the work done to date, and focus on some of the outstanding issues for the future studies.
The goal of this study is to create a new paradigm in UV/Optical instrument design, detector technology, and optics that will form the technological foundation for the next generation of UV/Optical missions.
This study focuses primarily on examination of concepts based on managing solar radiation into the climate systems.
This study considers technology requirements for a potential asteroid retrieval in the following areas: astrodynamics, robotics, discovery and observation of smaller Near-Earth Asteroids, human and robotic mission design, and planetary defense.
The goal of this study is to create a new paradigm in UV/Optical instrument design, detector technology, and optics to form the foundation for the next generation of UV/Optical missions.
The goals of this workshop are to develop a technical follow-up plan to define the requirements for a CO high-z mapping experiment and explore broader questions of interest to the EoR and Dark Ages.
The goal of this workshop is to spur innovation in a new multi-scale, multi-domain modeling framework, from small-scale granular physics and contact mechanics to large-scale spacecraft dynamics.
The goal of the program is to bring together key technical experts from across the U.S. to advance the study of surface interactions and to deepen our understanding of key mission life-cycle processes. The results will be enabling for many future missions in our solar system.
Our technical goal is to develop a few realistic, benchmark problems on which the methods can be compared, keeping in mind computational resources and available architectures.
This study focuses primarily on examination of concepts based on managing solar radiation into the climate systems.
The primary goal of this workshop is to substantially extend the state of the art in ultrasensitive photon detector arrays at far-infrared and near-infrared/optical wavelengths.
This study will identify the technology developments required to obtain the space-borne measurements needed to significantly reduce this key climate projection uncertainty.
The goal of this workshop is to formulate revolutionary technology breakthroughs that will enable the development of sample acquisition systems and relevant instruments capable of in-situ operation during NASA's missions to extremely cold environments.
This study will identify the technology developments required to obtain the space-borne measurements needed to significantly reduce this key climate projection uncertainty.
This study is structured around the principal theme of diffuse spectral radio/mm/sub-mm observations that target atomic and molecular lines as tracers of matter in the pre- and inter-galactic medium and early structures.
This workshop focuses on the potential to developing innovative ideas for future space missions based on the strategy of including a unique cross-fertilization of key experts from multi-institutional backgrounds.
This workshop explores the potential for making measurements relevant to exoplanets, using hardware on current and future missions within the Solar System.
The aim of this workshop is to to discuss perspectives regarding the use or improvement of remote sensing techniques to image and measure seismic waves from optical and SAR systems.
The goal of this study is to bring together scientists and engineers to discuss the planetary structure and seismological approaches. The outcome of the program will be a critical assessment of whether there are new directions to develop, or existing directions in need of technological impetus.
The study will evaluate how well current and near-term missions designed to demonstrate accurate atmospheric CO2 remote sensing (e.g. SCIAMACHY, AIRS, GOSAT, and ACCENDS) can constrain emissions and sinks of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
This study will significantly advance the capability to build single photon counting array detectors at submillimeter to ultraviolet wavelengths for astronomy, including optical single photon detectors for communications.
This workshop aims to take a fresh look at exoplanet characterization science from the point of view of new instruments that could do breakthrough science or that could pave the way for the next generation of space missions.
The goal of this study is to imagine remote sensing systems and processing techniques that will produce observations with optimal spatial and temporal coverage, ground resolution and registration accuracy to measure deformation and surface changes.
The goals of this Mini-Program is to bring together scientists from different branches of the climate research community to address key problems in the physics of climate feedbacks.
The goals of this mini-program are to bring together diverse theoretical and observational perspectives on dark matter particle candidates and their properties, astrophysical expressions, and the observations today and in the future that may solve the problem of the nature of dark matter.
The goal of this workshop is to explore new potential mission concepts for the exploration of high-risk planetary surfaces.
This workshop aims to explore the technical promise and projected capabilities of MMIC arrays over the next decade.
This workshop is a forum to explore new concepts that enable major scientific advances at modest cost in the far-IR / submm spectral range.
The aim of this workshop is to analyze the findings from the recent exploration of the surface of Mars.
The aim of this workshop is to analyze the state of the art in optical and RF apertures and to make a lasting impact on the field of large space apertures.
The objective of this workshop is to explore the science that would be enabled by large MMIC arrays for cosmology, astrophysics, planetary science, atmospheric science, and remote sensing of the Earth.