ASU Space Activity Overview Lindy Elkins-Tanton

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PI’d missions In Development In Flight

• Super Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope • Mastcam-Z on NASA's Mars 2020 • Psyche (Discovery 14) for Polarization (Super BLAST-TNG) (2021) Perseverance rover • LunaH-Map • LunaH-Map cubesat Moon orbiter (2021) • Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer (EMIRS) • SPARCS • Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer (L’TES) (2021) on UAE al-Amal orbiter • Phoenix • James Webb Space Telescope (2021) • Phoenix CubeSat – Earth orbiter • Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz • OSIRIS-Rex Thermal Emission Spectrometer Observatory (GUSTO) balloon mission (2021) (OTES) • ShadowCam on Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Korea • Hayabusa 2 from JAXA Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (2022) • MastCam on NASA’s Curiosity Rover • Psyche mission (2022) • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera • Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (2022) from ESA (LROC) on NASA’s LRO • Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of • High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) (2021) Mars Express • Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) (2023) • MARCI, CTX, CRISM on NASA’s MRO • Europa Thermal Emission Imaging System (E-THEMIS) on • Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Europa Clipper (2024) on NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter • REASON, SUDA, MASPEX on Europa Clipper (2024) • Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and • Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (late 2020s) Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s • CASE on ESA’s ARIEL mission (2028) Terra satellite

P.I.: Phil Christensen

P.I.: Lindy Elkins-Tanton Mastcam-Z on the Perseverance Rover

P.I.: Jim Bell

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Director: Jim Bell Program Manager: Scott Smas Research Director: Travis Gabriel

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Copyright © 2020 Arizona Board of Regents. Copyright © 2020 Arizona Board of Regents. ASU’s Interplanetary Initiative is building the future of of humans in space, and thus create a bolder and better society here on Earth.

Co-chair: President Michael Crow Co-chair and Managing Director: Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Envision and implement a new functional organization that brings together all space sector stakeholders.

Form interdisciplinary partnerships that fulfill essential ~20 external partners research needs for space exploration. active right now

Envision and implement a new functional organization that brings together all space sector stakeholders.

Form interdisciplinary partnerships that fulfill essential ~20 external partners active research needs for space exploration. right now

The Technological Leadership Major Invent interdisciplinary educational programs that create Satellite command & control the workforce of the future. certificate More…

Brainstorm the Vote on the Volunteer into biggest questions most important teams

Decide on one- Choose a Place under project year milestones leader management

How our projects are launched Project research impact by the numbers (2019-2020)

Research 12 projects

1) Brainstorm big questions 2) Vote on most important External Interplanetary project 15 collaborations 200K seed funding 870% + Team External 100 members 2.1M funding

Cumulative return on pilot project investments 3) Volunteer into working groups 4) Decide on one-year milestones (2017-2020)

Interplanetary project Return 850K seed funding 8.7X on investment

External 5.9M funding

5) Choose a leader 6) Place under project management

11 Starting 2021: Innovation Sprints • Teams of ~6 • Process is 3 - 5 days • Followed by project-managed development

Vision Explore Select Prototype Test The team completes a Team members create Individuals’ solutions The team creates a Tests with end users series of diverging and individual solution sets are vetted and a final rapid prototype for feedback and to converging steps such team solution is determine the path for as setting a near-term decided upon pilot projects vision, interviewing SMEs, and exploring alternative solutions

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