Maximizing Science Return of SmallSats with Programmatic Support
by Varoujan Gorjian, David Ardila, Lee Aermus, Anthony Freeman, Jae Sub Hong, Mary Knapp, Christopher Moore, Suzanne Romaine, Evgenya Shkolnik, and Scott Wolk
Published onSep 30, 2019
Maximizing Science Return of SmallSats with Programmatic Support
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Abstract
A new opportunity is opening up to the astrophysics community with the advent of SmallSats to do innovative astrophysics from space. But the infrastructure support for them right now is limited. We propose that NASA set up a support infrastructure for SmallSats by paying for common services separate from approved SmallSat budgets.
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