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5.7 Report Series: Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Small Explorer Missions
5.7 Report Series: Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Small Explorer Missions
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mission call.2,3 In response, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued a charge to the committee, which is given in Appendix A The primary task to the CAA in the charge is for the CAA to "write a brief report addressing whether there may or may not be sufficient compelling science motivations for a SMEX-sized mission to justify a SMEX Announcement of Opportunity (AO)
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The Midterm Assessment Report recommended the following: NASA's Astrophysics Division should execute its current plan, as presented to the committee, of at least four xplorer E Announcements of Opportunity during the 2012-2021 decade, each with a Mission of Opportunity call, and each followed by mission selection.4 This plan included the SMEX round that is the subject of this report. 4 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2016, p.
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