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NASA hints?

By catdynamics on March 12, 2007.

The NASA ROSES-2007 is out.
This is the omnibus announcement of opportunity/request for proposals for most of th in-house activities for the science mission directorate - everything from evolutionary biolology through test of relativity via the moon and mars - but it doesn't include the great observatory proposals - Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra have their own solicitations and support structure.

One of the few surviving fundamental science categories, as distinct from mission oriented proposals, is the Astrophysics Theory Program - which basically covers theoretical research which is not mission specific to a currently flying mission. It is now merged with what was "Beyond Einstein Foundation Science" - and the total amount of funding for both activities cut, incidentally. Classic move that.

But, "foundation science" includes experiment development - both concept studies and minor instrumentation (there is a separate proposal line for major instrument development for different class missions - nice work if you can get it).

The ATP call specifies that only LISA instrument development proposals will be considered; not Con-X or JDEM or other Beyond Einstein programs. Concept study proposals are allowed.

This is quite curious, and encouraging for people who like LISA
We'll see this autumn what it really means

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