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2018 Heliophysics Technology Demonstration (TechDemo)

Mission of Opportunity (MO) under the Solar Terrestrial Probes Program

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).

 
 

TechDemo MO (TDMO) News

 
  • 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.
  • August 15, 2019 ... NASA has announced the selection for the 2018 Heliophysics Technology Demonstration solicitation (Press Release 19-068).
  • 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. This amendment makes the following changes to this PEA: in Sections 6.1.2 and 6.2.2, it is noted that restrictions on changing team membership after the Notification Proposal has been submitted have been modified. New text is in bold and deleted text is struck through. See https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/tdmo/tdmo-announcements.html.
  • August 28, 2018 ... NOTICE: Amended August 28, 2018. This amendment makes the following changes to this PEA: in Section 9 it is noted that the dates for Notification Proposal, Final PEA Full Proposal Due (NSPIRES), and Final PEA Full Proposal Due (CD ROMs) have been changed. New text is in bold and deleted text is struck through. See https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/tdmo/tdmo-announcements.html.
  • August 6, 2018 ... FINAL 2018 Heliophysics Technology Demonstration (TechDemo) Mission of Opportunity (MO) Program Element Appendix (PEA) L released on NSPIRES. See https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/tdmo/tdmo-announcements.html.
  • May 2, 2018 ... Technology Fair/Industry Day page added, with invitations for presentations, at https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/tdmo/tdmo-technology_fair.html. Teaming Interest page added at https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/stp/tdmo/teaminginterest.html.
  • May 1, 2018 ... DRAFT 2018 Heliophysics Technology Demonstration (TechDemo) Mission of Opportunity (MO) Program Element Appendix (PEA) released at https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary!init.do?solId=%7B847150E1-67CC-B2B6-C6B6-EA32884560E2%7D&path=open. See "PEA on NSPIRES" link to the left.
  • April 30, 2018 ... Program Library population initiated in preparation for DRAFT SALMON-3 PEA release. Strategic Documents and SALMON-3 Specified Documents sections addressed. Additional documents pending for other sections. See the Change Log at https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/tdmo/tdmo-library.html for details.
  • April 24, 2018 ... Community Announcement released for the 2018 Heliophysics Technology Demonstration Mission of Opportunity via SALMON-3. See https://soma.larc.nasa.gov/STP/tdmo/tdmo-announcements.html.