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PACE Technical Report Series, Volume 5: Mission Formulation StudiesThis chapter summarizes the mission architecture for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, ranging from its scientific rationale to the history of its realized conception to itspresent-day organization and management. This volume in the PACE Technical Report series focuses ontrade studies that informed the formulation of the mission in its pre-Phase A (2014-2016; pre-formulation:define a viable and affordable concept) and Phase A (2016-2017; concept and technology development).With that in mind, this chapter serves to introduce the mission by providing: a brief summary of thescience drivers for the mission; a history of the direction of the mission to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC); a synopsis of the mission's and instruments' management and development structures; and a brief description of the primary components and elements that form the foundation ofthe mission, encompassing the major mission segments (space, ground, and science data processing) and their roles in integration, testing, and operations.
Document ID
20190001724
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Cetinic, Ivona (Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Columbia, MD, United States)
McClain, Charles R. (Science Applications International Corp. Reston, VA, United States)
Werdell, Jeremy P. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bontempi, Paula (NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Cairns, Brian (NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Studies New York, NY, United States)
Craig, Susan E. (Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Columbia, MD, United States)
Dress, Andre (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Franz, Bryan (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Lossing, Robert (Science Applications International Corp. Reston, VA, United States)
Mannino, Antonio (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
McKinna, Lachlan I. W. (Go2Q Pty Ltd Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia)
Pahlevan, Nima (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Lanham, MD, United States)
Patt, Frederick S. (Science Applications International Corp. Reston, VA, United States)
Schweiss, Robert (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
March 20, 2019
Publication Date
December 1, 2018
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Report/Patent Number
NASA/TM-2018-219027/Vol. 5
GSFC-E-DAA-TN65849
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG11HP16A
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Use by or on behalf of the US Gov. Permitted.

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