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SMEX LIBRARY
.The listing below includes requirements documents and documents that are intended to be helpful background material for investigators in developing their proposals in response to the SMEX and Missions of Opportunity Announcement of Opportunity. Not all documents are available directly from the library. However, access information is given. Please report any broken links to the website curator.
1. NASA Strategy and Requirements
This document describes the strategy and goals for achieving the national vision for space exploration.
This document provides a reference for typical activities, milestones, and products in the development and execution of NASA missions.
NPR 7123.1A – Systems Engineering Processes and Requirements (March 26, 2007).
This document articulates and establishes the requirements on the implementing organization for performing, supporting, and evaluating systems engineering.
NPR 7150.2 – Software Engineering Requirements (September 27,2004).
This document provides the minimal set of requirements established by the Agency for software acquisition, development, maintenance, operations, and management.
NPR-8000.4 – Risk Management Procedural Requirements (April 25, 2002).
This document provides the requirements and information for applying risk management to programs and projects.
Updated NPR 8705.4 – Risk Classification for NASA Payloads (Revalidated July 9, 2008).
This document establishes baseline criteria that enables a user to define the risk classification level for NASA payloads on human- or nonhuman-rated launch systems or carrier
vehicles and the design and test philosophy and the common assurance practices applicable to each level.
This document provides the requirements for the management of NASA STI.
NASA-STD-8739.8 – Software Assurance Standard (July 28 2004).
This document provides a standard for assessing software systems for their contribution to safety and quality. It describes the processes and procedures for analyzing and
applying appropriate assurance techniques and methods to software.
This document serves as the education strategic coordination framework for an Agency portfolio approach to education. It aligns NASA’s total education portfolio with the Agency’s
Strategic Plan, provides a coordination structure, and creates an Agency-wide strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation framework for the Agency’s investments in education.
2. Science Mission Directorate Strategies and Policies
Science Plan for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate 2007- 2016
(January 2007).
This document describes the goals and objectives of NASA’s SMD, and of the major ideas described in the context of the overall NASA Strategic Plan..
Updated Explanatory Guide to the NASA Science Mission Directorate Education and Public Outreach Evaluation Factors
(April 2008).
Provides a descriptions and elaborates on each of the SMD E/PO evaluation factors. Provides answers to frequently asked questions.
Explanatory Guide to the NASA Science Mission Directorate Educational Merit Evaluation Factors for Student Collaboration Elements
(September 2007).
Provides a descriptions and elaborates on each of the SMD SC educational merit evaluation factors. Provides answers to frequently asked questions.
New Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Management Handbook
(February 8, 2008).
3 Space Science Roadmaps
The science research programs of the NASA SMD, through the Space Science Advisory Committee and its subcommittees, have developed Roadmaps.
These planning documents prioritize the space science goals for NASA for the years 2007-2035. The following Roadmaps apply to the Explorer Program:
The Heliophysics Division of the SMD through its Advisory Subcommittee has developed a roadmap. This document prioritizes the heliophysics science goals for NASA for the year 2005-2035.
Community Roadmap: Astrophysics (2006).
The Astrophysics Division of the SMD through its Advisory Subcommittee has developed a roadmap. This document prioritizes the astrophysics science goals for NASA for the year 2005-2035.
4. Space Science Supporting Documents
Report of the NASA-National Science Foundation (NSF)-Department of Energy (DOE) Dark Energy Task Force, which was asked to advise the agencies on the optimum near- and
intermediate-term programs to investigate dark energy and, in cooperation with agency efforts, to advance the justification, specification and optimization of a ground-based Large Survey
Telescope (LST) and a space-based Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM).
This report of the NASA-NSF-DOE Task Force on Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) presents a roadmap for leading CMB research to its logical next step, using precision polarization
measurements to learn about ultra-high-energy physics and the Big Bang itself.
National Research Council report of the Committee on the Physics of the Universe. A study undertaken by the Board on Physics and Astronomy assessing the science opportunities at the
intersection of physics and astronomy.
National Research Council report of the Committee on Gravitational Physics. A research briefing by the Board on Physics and Astronomy to reassess the
opportunities for scientific advances in gravitational physics.
National Research Council report of the decennial Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee. A study undertaken by the Space Studies Board and the Board on Physics and
Astronomy of both ground and space based astronomy recommends priorities for new initiatives in the decade 2000 to 2010.
National Research Council report of the Committee on Cosmic-ray Physics. A review was undertaken by the Board on Physics and Astronomy to review the field that addresses
both experimental and theoretical aspects of the origin of cosmic radiation from outside the heliosphere.
National Research Council report of the Solar and Space Physics Survey Committee. A study undertaken by the Space Studies Board and the Board on Physics and Astronomy of
both solar and space physics recommends priorities for new initiatives in the decade 2003 to 2013.
Report of the Gamma Ray Astronomy Program Working Group.
15-Year Plan for X-Ray Astronomy (June 1999).
Report of the X-Ray Astronomy Program Working Group.
The Emergence of the Modern Universe: Tracing the Cosmic Web (November 1999).
Report of the Ultraviolet-Optical Astronomy Program Working Group.
5. SMEX Guidelines and Requirements Documents
Approval of the Reclassification of Small Explorer (SMEX) Mission (July 10, 2007).
Letter from the Associate Administrator for SMD to the Director of GSFC approving the reclassification of SMEX missions as
tailored Class D.
SMEX Expendable Launch Vehicle Services Information Summary (November 19,2007).
This document provides information and points of contact on available expendable launch vehicles.
This document provides information and points of contact on the functions and costs of NASA-provided ground data systems, mission operations
capabilities, and the access to NASA's space communications networks.
This document describes the guidelines used by SMD Senior Reviews when reviewing extended mission proposals.
Updated SMEX Guidelines and Criteria for the Phase A Concept Study(September 18, 2008).
This document describes the requirement for preparation of the Phase A Concept Study Report.
Document with changes shown from previous draft.
Updated SMEX Guidelines and Criteria for the Phase A Concept Study for Missions of Opportunity(September 18, 2008).
This document includes updates and notes related to Missions of Opportunity. Document with changes shown from previous draft.
This document describes the requirements for a Phase A Concept Study Contract.
This is a draft model contract for the Phase B/C/D/E contract for further formulation and implementation of missions
downselect for proceeding beyond Phase A.
GPR 7120.3B – Management of Principal Investigator Mode Missions (December 15, 2004).
This document describes the roles and responsibilities of the PI, the program office (including the Mission Manager), the implementing organization, and NASA HQ with respect
to the overall management of PI-mode missions at the GSFC.
GPR 7120.4A – Risk Management. (June 14, 2005)
This document provides procedures for applying risk management to GSFC projects.
GPR 8700.4F – Integrated Independent Reviews. (June 2, 2005)
This document establishes the process for planning, conducting, and reporting Integrated Independent Reviews for GSFC products.
GPR 8700.6A – Engineering Peer Reviews. (January 26, 2005)
This document defines the process for Engineering Peer Reviews of applicable GSFC products.
410-RQMT-0036 – Small Explorer (SMEX) Program, Low Priority, High Risk Payload (Class D), Mission Assurance Requirements. (September 24, 2007)
This document describes the responsibilities of the PI with regard to Safety, Reliability, and Quality Assurance.
410-PLAN-0068A – System Safety Implementation Plan For The Goddard Space Flight Center Explorers Program Office. (May 10, 2005)
This document describes the safety approach that will be followed during the design, development, fabrication, assembly, and test phases of mission hardware from
conception through launch.
410-PLAN-0095 – SMEX General Project Plan. (September 2007)
This document is the portion of the Project Plan that is applicable to all missions. When appended with the PI developed Mission Implementation Plan, it will be the
controlling Project Plan for the mission. (This document is in the final signature process.)
GSFC-STD-1000C.2 – Rules for the Design, Development, Verification, and Operation of Flight Systems. (December 12, 2006)
This document provides a high-level subset of all the design rules required for safety and mission success for all space flight products.
This document provides requirements and guidelines for environmental verification programs for GSFC payloads, subsystems and components and describes methods for
implementing those requirements.
6. General Guideline and Requirements Documents
Example of such requirements for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX).
Example of such an agreement for IBEX.
These guidelines incorporate best business practices for the implementation of an Earned Value Management System.
Example of such an agreement for IBEX.
7. Explorer Program Background
Predicting Mission Success in Small Satellite Missions (Octoberber 1999).
Paper providing an overview of the process by which proposals submitted in response to Announcements of Opportunity are evaluated. It was presented at the 50th
International Astronautical Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, IAF-99-IAA.
Lessons Learned from Technical, Management, and Cost Review of Proposals (February 21, 2006).
A Summary of 10 Years Experience in Reviewing Competitively Selected Proposals for New Science Missions.
8. Education and Public Outreach
Describes the breadth of SMD Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) programs and accomplishments in space science.
Describes SMD space science E/PO newsworthy activities.
9. Procurement-related Information
NPR 5800.1E -- Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook (May 7, 2002).
10. Orbital Debris
NPR 8715.6 - Procedural Requirements for Limiting Orbital Debris (August 17, 2007).
NASA-STD-8719.14 – NASA Process for Limiting Orbital Debris (August 28, 2007).
11. Other
Includes links to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)
Includes links to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
NPD 8610.7C – Launch Services Risk Mitigation Policy for NASA-Owned Or NASA-Sponsored Payloads
(April 5, 2005).
12. Focused Opportunity for the Solar Orbiter (FOSO) Mission
NASA/TM–2006-214137 - Solar Sentinels: Report of the Science and Technology Definition Team (August 2006).
Defines the goals of the Sentinels mission.
HELEX: Heliophysical Explorers: Solar Orbiter and Sentinels (October 5, 2007).
This is the pre-publication version of the Joint Science and Technology Definition Team Report (JSTDT).
Solar Orbiter Experiment Interface Document - Part A (October 9, 2007).
Defines the requirements of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft and instruments. However, in some cases instrument requirements have changed as indicated in the JSTDT report.
Solar Orbiter Payload Definition Document (August 23, 2007).
Defines the payload accommodation requirements and interfaces for the Solar Obiter mission.
Solar Orbiter Science Requirements Document (March 31, 2005).
Science requirements for the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission.
Geospace-Radiation Belt Storm Probes(G_RBSP) Program Mission Assurance Requirements (MAR) (June 2007).
13. International Space Station
This short document briefly describes opportunities for payloads utilizing the International Space Station including constraints and requirements.
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