Maximizing Science Return of SmallSats with Programmatic Support
Varoujan Gorjian, D. R. Ardila, Lee Aermus, A. Freeman, JaeSub E. Hong, Mary Knapp, Christopher Moore, Suzanne E. Romaine, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, S. J. Wolk · Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society · 2019
A new opportunity is opening up to the astrophysics community with the advent of SmallSats to do innovative astrophysics from space. But the infrastructure support for them right now is limited. We propose that NASA set up a support infrastructure for SmallSats by paying for common services separate from approved SmallSat budgets.