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Chapter: Appendix F: Mission Teams' Technology Funding Inputs to the Committee

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Mission Teams' Technology Funding Inputs to the Committee." National Research Council. 2007. NASA's Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12006.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Mission Teams' Technology Funding Inputs to the Committee." National Research Council. 2007. NASA's Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12006.
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F Mission Teams’ Technology Funding Inputs to the Committee The funding requirements and assumptions for continuing the mission development activities for the 11 mission candidates shown in Table F.1 were essentially developed from inputs provided to the committee by the individual mission teams. As shown, the teams were asked to identify continuation activities at two budgetary levels: (1) the level of mission risk reduction to prepare input for the next astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey of the National Research Council and (2) the bare minimum budget level to sustain the mission team in a meaningful way. 152

APPENDIX F 153 TABLE F.1  NASA Investment Options for 11 Beyond Einstein Candidate Missions Assessment of Mission Team Requirements: Assessment of Bare Minimum: Fully Prepare for the Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Surveya Team Sustainment Levela Mission Areaa Mission FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 Inflation CMBPol b,c,d Probes EPIC-Fb,c,e $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 EPIC-Ib,c,f $250,000 $250,000 $250,000 <$250,000 <$250,000 <$250,000 Without APRA funding $750,000 $750,000 $750,000 <$750,000 <$750,000 <$750,000 CIPg $870,000 $840,000 $682,000 <<$875,000 <<$875,000 <<$875,000 Cross-mission $2 million $2 million $2 million $2 million $2 million $2 million CMB detector flight—packagingb,c BHFP CASTER $740,000 $740,000 $740,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 Balloon Flight in $240,000 $240,000 $240,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 Phase Ah EXISTi $200,000 $1.8 $1.8 million $100,000 $600,000 $600,000 million Con-X Con-Xj $10 million $10 million $10 million $6.2 million $6.2 million $6.2 million JDEM ADEPT $2.3 $2.3 $2.3 million $0.9 million $0.9 million $0.9 million million million SNAPk $3.0 $3.0 $3.0 million $3.0 million $3.0 million $3.0 million million million DESTINY $1 million $1 million $1 million $1 million $1 million $1 million LISA LISAl $6 million $6 million $6 million $6 million $6 million $6 million NOTE: Acronyms are defined in Appendix G. a Does not include civil service or Jet Propulsion Laboratory costs. b Investment in detectors and focused detector integration into large-scale flight-ready arrays. c Assumes additional ongoing NASA, DOE, NIST funding of an additional $2 million per year for development of bolometric array technology continues. d No data provided to the committee from the mission team. e Assumes team is successful in proposed funding for a balloon experiment “SPIDER” to demonstrate instrument, six detectors, wave plate, and telescope concept. f Assumes team is successful in proposed NASA Astronomy and Physics Research Analysis (APRA) Program funding for a balloon flight demonstration of a scalable millimeter-wave bolometric interferometer at $1,549,513 over the period from the second quarter of FY 2008 through the second quarter of FY 2011. g Assumes successful JWST detector demonstration. h Assumes team is successful in proposed funding for a balloon experiment under NASA’s APRA Program or it is deferred to Phase A. i Assumes $600,000 APRA Program proposal for LET development is successful and current HET APRA funding is maintained through March 2009. j Constellation-X input scaled back from the team’s input that was proposed as needed for a new start to a level assessed by the committee that would allow the team to prepare for the 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey. k Currently there is $3 million per year in DOE funding for SNAP. l Excludes ESA funding and NASA ROSES research grant funding.

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"Beyond Einstein science" is a term that applies to a set of new scientific challenges at the intersection of physics and astrophysics. Observations of the cosmos now have the potential to extend our basic physical laws beyond where 20th-century research left them. Such observations can provide stringent new tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity, indicate how to extend the Standard Model of elementary-particle physics, and -- if direct measurements of gravitational waves were to be made -- give astrophysics an entirely new way of observing the universe.

In 2003, NASA, working with the astronomy and astrophysics communities, prepared a research roadmap entitled Beyond Einstein: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. This roadmap proposed that NASA undertake space missions in five areas in order to study dark energy, black holes, gravitational radiation, and the inflation of the early universe, to test Einstein's theory of gravitation. This study assesses the five proposed Beyond Einstein mission areas to determine potential scientific impact and technical readiness. Each mission is explored in great detail to aid decisions by NASA regarding both the ordering of the remaining missions and the investment strategy for future technology development within the Beyond Einstein Program.

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