Status and News from NASA’s Heliophysics Division of SMD

July 9, 2013

Jeffrey Newmark NASA Headquarters 2 IRIS with Solar Arrays Deployed IRIS & Pegasus Launch Vehicle

4 IRIS & Pegasus Launch Vehicle

5 Explorer Program Selections

ICON GOLD Ionospheric Connection Explorer Global Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk

• How neutral atmosphere affects the ionosphere … how the ionosphere and • How solar wind and magnetosphere thermosphere respond to affect the ionosphere geomagnetic storms, solar radiation, and upward propagating ICON is a single s/c traveling atmospheric tides eastward and continuously imaging Two identical scanning imaging the thermosphere and ionosphere. spectrographs on a geosynchronous commercial communication satellite. Orbit: 550 km at 24o inclination

PI: Thomas Immel / UC Berkeley PI: Richard Eastes / U. Central Florida

Next AO, ~FY16 based on President’s FY14 budget Heliophysics System Observatory (HSO)

• The HSO utilizes the entire fleet of solar, heliospheric, geospace, and planetary spacecraft as a distributed observatory to discover the larger scale and/or coupled processes at work throughout the complex system that makes up our space environment.

• HSO consists of 19 operating missions: Voyager, Geotail, Wind, SOHO, ACE, Cluster, TIMED, RHESSI, TWINS, Hinode, STEREO, THEMIS, AIM, CINDI, IBEX, SDO, ARTEMIS, Van Allen Probes, IRIS

• Missions in Development: MMS, Solar Orbiter Collaboration, Solar Probe Plus

• Adding New selections: ICON, GOLD

7 Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS)

Observatory #1 Observatory #2

Observatory #4 Observatory #3

HPD Objectives and Programs Strategic Objective: Understand the sun and its interactions with Earth and the solar system

Solve fundamental mysteries of Solar Terrestrial Explorers Heliophysics: Explore the physical processes in the space environment Probes from the sun to the Earth and throughout the solar system Understand the nature of our home in Smaller, Competed space: Advance our understanding of Strategic Mission Flight Program Flight Program the connections that link the sun, the Earth and planetary space Research environments, and the outer reaches of Living With a Star our solar system. Build the knowledge to forecast space weather throughout the heliosphere: Develop the knowledge and capability to Research tasks utilizing detect and predict extreme conditions in Strategic Mission suborbital and existing assets space to protect life and society and to Flight Program safeguard human and robotic explorers beyond Earth. Heliophysics Research Grant Programs (FY2013) Typical Annual Award Size $125k-$150k (Approx $400k for LCAS)

Program Funding Level Number of Awards

LWS Science: Targeted Research $15.8M Total 105 - Including focus teams, workshops, post and Technology doc program, summer school, and sun-climate

Supporting Research and $14M Total 95 - Including supporting research, instrument Technology: Solar and development and LCAS Heliospheric

Supporting Research and $14M Total 100 - Including supporting research, instrument Technology: Geospace development and LCAS

Guest Investigator Program - $8.8 M Total 80 – Guest investigator awards (intended to maximize the scientific output of Heliophysics missions)

Education and Public Outreach TBD

8 Heliophysics Research Grants Program (FY2013) Support for Larger, Critical Mass Efforts

Program Funding Level Details Theory Program (problems $4.5 M Total Anticipate 10 new awards requiring critical mass of

expertise) Daytime Dynamo July 10

Living With a Star Strategic $4M Total Approximately 11, new awards Capability – Development of pending first-principle models

STP Interdisciplinary Science $350K Each per year 3 10-year grants Teams (IDS)

9 ROSES 2013

• Submission Process: 2 Step process – All Heliophysics programs will review Step-1 and Step-2 proposals for compliance.. In addition to compliance checking, the H-GI Step-1 proposals will be reviewed for importance of the science, feasibility of the methodology, and likelihood of success by a panel of peers and will result in encouragement or discouragement to submit a full proposal. • Program Elements: – Heliophysics Supporting Research (H-SR) program – Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science (H-TIDeS) – The Heliophysics Guest Investigator (H-GI) – Heliophysics Grand Challenges Research (H-GCR) program (Theory, competed every 3 years) – Heliophysics Living With a Star (H-LWS) science – Heliophysics Infrastructure and Data Environment Enhancements (H-IDEE) 2012 Senior Review Process and Budget

Many of the Heliophysics extended mission MO&DA budgets support data collection and data calibration/validation activities only, science being supported by other research grant programs. • Senior Review panel was instructed to evaluate each according to two criteria: (1) Individual Scientific Merit and (2) Value of their Contribution to the Heliophysics System Observatory

Budget Information:

The 2010 Senior Review panel was informed of the need to cut the prospective MO&DA “minimal science” budget from $59.5M to $54.7M in FY11 and from $57.9M to $51.8M in FY12.

For the 2013 Senior Review, the FY14 MO&DA budget for extended missions was set at $49.5M in February 2013 (sum total in-guide budget) with a monotonically decreasing budget to the $47M level in FY18.

This represents a 14% decrease in the funding of the 14 operating missions within the portfolio in the space of 2 years: this presents a clear and elevated risk to continued successful operations of the mission suite. 14 Heliophysics Program Content

FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 (FY15-18 estimates are notional)

He liophys ics 644.8 653.7 633.1 636.8 664.3 664.6

Heliophy s ic s Res earc h 166.7 195.7 163.0 167.5 172.1 174.1 Heliophysics Research and Analysis 32.9 33.5 33.9 34.0 33.9 33.9 Sounding Rockets 52.3 51.6 53.7 53.0 53.0 53.0 Res earc h Range 20.1 21.0 21.3 21.6 21.7 21.7 Other Missions and Data Analysis 61.3 89.6 54.2 58.8 63.5 65.5 CubeSats 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 Voyager 5.3 5.3 5.3 5.5 5.4 5.4 SOHO 2.0 2.2 1.9 1.9 1.9 1.9 Wind 2.0 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2 CLUSTER-II 2.5 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 Geotail 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 SOLAR Data Center 0.7 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 Data & Modeling Services 3.8 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.0 Space Physics Data Archive 1.4 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 Guest Investigator Program 10.4 8.2 7.2 8.0 8.0 8.0 Community Coordinated Modeling Center 2.0 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 (continued on next slide)

8 Heliophysics Program Content (cont’d)

FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 (FY15-18 estimates are notional)

Heliophysics Research Other Missions and Data Analysis (cont'd) Science Data & Computing 1.7 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 Space Weather Research to Operations 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 Space Science Mission Ops Services 10.1 11.0 11.3 11.6 11.7 11.7 Direc ted Res earc h & Tec hnology 13.5 37.8 3.4 6.9 11.4 13.3 Science Planning and Research Support 5.7 6.3 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8

Living w ith a Star 196.3 216.2 277.7 332.6 353.9 374.4 Solar Probe Plus 52.6 104.8 137.1 229.3 213.5 329.7 Solar Orbiter Collaboration 19.7 55.5 97.3 68.2 100.0 6.7 Other Missions and Data Analysis 124.0 55.8 43.3 35.1 40.5 38.0 Van Allen Probes (RBSP) 86.1 13.8 8.4 Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) 16.7 14.1 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 BARREL 1.6 1.5 0.3 LWS Space Environment Testbeds 0.5 0.6 0.1 LWS Science 15.0 17.2 17.5 17.5 17.5 17.5 LWS Program Mgmt and Future Missions 4.0 8.7 7.5 8.1 13.4 10.9

16 Heliophysics Program Content (cont’d)

FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 (FY15-18 estimates are notional)

Solar Terrestrial Probes 216.0 146.6 68.7 48.9 50.1 27.9 Magnetos pher ic Multis c ale ( MMS) 194.6 120.9 39.5 20.2 12.3 2.7 Other Missions and Data Analysis 21.4 25.8 29.2 28.7 37.8 25.2 STEREO 9.0 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.6 9.6 Hinode (Solar B) 8.2 8.3 8.3 8.5 8.5 8.5 TIMED 3.0 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.5 STP Program Mgmt and Future Missions 1.4 5.2 8.6 7.9 17.1 4.6

Heliophysics Explorer Program 65.8 95.2 123.7 87.9 88.2 88.2 Heliophysics Explorer Future Missions 3.8 65.7 99.8 67.6 64.5 67.5 Interf ac e Region Imaging Spec togr (IRIS) 39.1 8.4 1.0 THEMIS 6.0 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.2 Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) 1.6 3.7 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 Aeronomy of Ice in Mesophere (AIM) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 ACE 3.7 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 RHESSI 1.9 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.1 2.1 CINDI 1.0 0.9 0.2 0.0 TWINS 1.0 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 Heliophysics Explorer Program Mgmt 4.7 3.7 6.4 4.1 7.4 4.4

10 Roadmap and Decadal • Roadmap released Summer 2013 • Follows vision and priorities of Decadal, however due to budgetary differences stresses flexibility in achieving science targets. • Roadmap and Decadal both assume current missions in formulation and development are top priority – Account for total budget until ~FY18-19. • Differences in top level budget by end of decade is $100M/year less using FY12 and $150M as compared to decadal “enabling budget.” This is exasperated by the necessity of funds for ongoing HSO missions, further reducing the amount available for future mission by ~$50M/year. • If we therefore look at futures going out 10-15 years, the difference between the Decadal and Roadmap is >$1 billion or the equivalent of the recommended LWS mission or 3-5 Explorer missions! Given the Presidents FY14 fulfilling the decadal recommendations in their presented implementation would take 20 years!

• => Note, FY14 budget was developed prior to release of Decadal!

18 Decadal Survey & Draft Roadmap Budget Plan and Priorities

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STP LWS

ROSES Competed Research

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