TY - JOUR
T1 - Astrophysics midex missions in the US
AU - Nousek, J. A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The second NASA MIDEX AO results were announced on 24 October 1999. The Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer was selected for a September 2003 launch. Swift is being developed by a joint team lead by Goddard Space Flight Center and The Pennsylvania State University, with major international contributions from the United Kingdom and Italy. The Swift Principal Investigator is Neil Gehrels of Goddard. FAME (Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer) was selected for a July 2004 launch. FAME is a joint development effort by the U.S. Naval Observatory, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, lead by Ken Johnston of the U.S. Naval Observatory. FAME receives additional funding from the U.S. Navy. In the following sections I will describe each of the four selected MIDEX missions.
Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Dr. Paul Hertz of NASA Headquarters has played a critical role in the execution of the Explorer MIDEX Program. Dr. Jim Burch of SwRI provided material for the IMAGE program. Dr. Charles Bennett of GSFC provided material for the MAP program. Drs. Ken Johnston and Scott Homer provided material for the FAME program. Dr. Neil Gehrels provided material for the entire MIDEX program and for Swift. JN acknowledges financial support from NASA contract NAS5-00136.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - NASA'S MIDEX program provides frequent flight opportunities for scientific investigations from space for missions of cost up to $140M (FY 1998), including launch, spacecraft, instruments, ground systems, operations and data analysis. The launch rate is approximately one per year, with selection of two missions occurring every two years. The program covers all areas of space science, excluding interplanetary probes. Mission selections to date include MAP (microwave background), IMAGE (magnetospheric imager), Swift (gamma-ray bursts) and FAME (astrometric survey).
AB - NASA'S MIDEX program provides frequent flight opportunities for scientific investigations from space for missions of cost up to $140M (FY 1998), including launch, spacecraft, instruments, ground systems, operations and data analysis. The launch rate is approximately one per year, with selection of two missions occurring every two years. The program covers all areas of space science, excluding interplanetary probes. Mission selections to date include MAP (microwave background), IMAGE (magnetospheric imager), Swift (gamma-ray bursts) and FAME (astrometric survey).
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U2 - 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)00614-2
DO - 10.1016/S0273-1177(02)00614-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037220958
SN - 0273-1177
VL - 31
SP - 277
EP - 283
JO - Advances in Space Research
JF - Advances in Space Research
IS - 2
ER -