2018 Heliophysics Science Missions of Opportunity

Missions of Opportunity are conducted as a Principal Investigator (PI)-led space investigation to advance NASA's strategic objective in heliophysics, which is to "[u]nderstand the Sun and its interactions with the Earth and the solar system, including space weather." The solicitation will be released through a NASA Program Element Appendix (PEA) to the Third Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON-3).
 
 

• December 29, 2020 ... NASA announced the investigations selected for the Explorers component of the 2018 Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity (MO). (Press Release 20-135).
• December 3, 2020 ... NASA announced the science and technology demonstration investigations selected for the Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) component of the 2018 Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity (MO) and the 2018 STP Technology Demonstration MO. (Press Release 20-120).
• December 2, 2020 ... NOTICE: Amended December 1, 2020. The CSR Evaluation Plan has been amended to update the Organization Charts for all three evaluations and to update the list of Observers for both Programs. New text is bold; deleted text is struck through.
• November 6, 2020 ... NOTICE: Amended November 6, 2020. The CSR Evaluation Plan has been amended to update the Organization Chart for the Explorers Component of the CSR evaluation and to update the list of STP Observers. New text is bold; deleted text is struck through.
• August 13, 2020 ... NOTICE: Amended August 13, 2020. The CSR Evaluation Plan has been amended to reflect changes in the CSR Guidelines and Criteria document that was amended on May 19, 2020. The CSR Guidelines and Criteria changes include the impacts of COVID-19 (date changes and fully virtual evaluation process) and language changes to Evaluation Factors B and C. The amended CSR Evaluation Plan also reflects the assignment of Dr. Amy Winebarger as the CSR Evaluation and Science Panel Chair for the Heliophysics Science - STP Component MO CSRs and the current evaluation process. New text is bold; deleted text is struck through.
• September 3, 2019 ... NASA announced the science investigations selected for the Explorer component of the Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity (MO) (Press Release 19-071).
• August 13, 2019 ... NASA announced the science investigations selected for the Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) component of the 2018 Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity (MO) (Press Release 19-067).
• April 19, 2019 ... NOTICE: Amended April 19, 2019. 2018 Heliophysics Science MO Evaluation Plan slides #46 and #52 were amended to reflect the current evaluation process. New text is bold and italicized; deleted text is struck through.
• November 14, 2018 ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is seeking information under this Request for Information (RFI) to assess community interest, concepts, and rough order of magnitude (ROM) cost for secondary payload integration services onto Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) rings to be exercised on future Science Mission Directorate (SMD) missions. (See https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=%7bE9DE429F-AA6E-18D9-F6A1-E9C9BE0D197B%7d&path=open for more information.).
• September 26, 2018 ... NOTICE: Amended September 26, 2018. Amendment 10 to the SALMON-3 AO makes seven changes in Sections, 4, 6 and 8, including modifying previously published restrictions on changing team membership after the notification proposal has been submitted. New text is bold and deleted text is struck through.
• August 28, 2018 ... NOTICE: Amended August 28, 2018. This amendment makes three changes to this PEA: In Section 9 the Due Date for Notification Proposal has been changed to October 1, the Due Date for Receipt of Electronic Full Proposals in NSPIRES has been changed to November 30, and the Due Date for Receipt of Full Proposal CD-ROMs has been changed to December 6. New text is in bold and deleted text is struck through.
• August 20, 2018 ... NOTICE: Amended August 20, 2018. This amendment makes two changes to this PEA: Requirement M-25 in Section 5.6.1 refers specifically to New Missions using Existing Spacecraft (NMES) and in Section 9 it is noted that the date for Preproposal Conference has been changed to August 24. New text is in bold and deleted text is struck through.
• August 17, 2018 ... The 2018 Heliophysics Science MO Preproposal Web Conference has been rescheduled for August 24, 2018 and the preliminary agenda (subject to change) can be found at https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/2018HelioMO/preprop-webex.html.
• August 7, 2018 ... FINAL 2018 Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity (MO) Program Element Appendix (PEA) M released on NSPIRES. See https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/2018HelioMO/announcements.html.
• May 3, 2018 ... DRAFT 2018 Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity (MO) Program Element Appendix (PEA) released at https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId={898898C3-59D2-E86A-274D-403D48432ABD}&path=open. See “PEA on NSPIRES” link to the left.
• March 8, 2018 ... Community Announcement released for the 2018 Heliophysics Science Mission of Opportunity via SALMON-3. See Announcements.