Funding Alternatives
BepiColombo Mission Visitor Investigators
Necessary Letters of Intent are resulting from ESA by 12:00 pm CEST on Might 20, 2025.
Emails requesting a NASA letter of endorsement have to be obtained by NASA no later than Might 30, 2025.
Full proposals are resulting from ESA by 12:00 pm CEST on June 10, 2025.
The Opportunity for an Interdisciplinary Scientist and Guest Investigators in the BepiColombo Mission was launched by ESA on April 22, 2025, soliciting proposals from scientists to reinforce the scientific return of BepiColombo, see https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/bepicolombo-ids-gi-2025.
As much as 11 Visitor Investigators (GIs) will likely be appointed by this chance. The GI name is open to scientists based mostly in ESA Member States (as much as 5), Japan (as much as one), and the U.S. (as much as 5).
NASA POC
Shoshana Weider
Program Scientist
Planetary Science Division (Science Mission Directorate)
NASA Headquarters
e mail: shoshana.z.weider@nasa.gov
ROSES-2024
Future Solicitations
Chances are you’ll obtain the present planning checklist of SMD Solicitations (NRAs and AOs) as a PDF from the SOMA web page. ROSES is launched annually on or about February 14th. Deliberate program components of ROSES are listed within the ROSES tables of due dates as ‘TBD’ and hypertext hyperlinks from every title within the desk of due dates connects to the NSPIRES web page for that program factor with a abstract and level of contact.
Astrophysics Small Explorer AO 2025 Replace
A draft 2025 Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) Announcement of Alternative (AO) was printed January 2025 as NNH25ZDA008J see https://go.nasa.gov/NNH25ZDA008J.
Initially, the ultimate SMEX to have been launched in April 2025. Nonetheless, the Astrophysics Division is taking extra time to refine its strategy to the SMEX name to extra successfully and effectively present significant proposal alternatives for the astrophysics neighborhood. NASA has decided that the subsequent alternative to suggest for an Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) mission will be postponed till no sooner than April 2026.
Inquiries must be addressed through e mail to Doris Daou, APD SMEX Program Scientist at Doris.Daou@nasa.gov and E. Lucien Cox APD SMEX Program Government at Elbert.l.Cox@nasa.gov. Responses could also be given by e mail or posted within the Questions and Solutions (Q&A) part on the SMEX Program Acquisition web site at https://explorers.larc.nasa.gov/APSMEX25/SMEX/
New Frontiers 5 AO Replace
NASA obtained feedback on the draft New Frontiers 5 Announcement of Opportunity in 2023. The present estimated launch of ultimate AO isn’t any sooner than 2026. Feedback supplied in response to that draft will feed into improvement of the AO focused for launch no sooner than 2026. To help proposers, NASA plans to share the key insurance policies for the subsequent AO roughly 18 months earlier than the focused launch of the AO.
Additional data will likely be posted when it’s obtainable on the New Frontiers Program Acquisition Web site hosted by the Science Workplace for Mission Assessments (SOMA) at NASA Langley Analysis Middle (LaRC) at https://newfrontiers.larc.nasa.gov/NF5/
Neighborhood Bulletins
New Landsat Subsequent Evaluation Crew
NASA is establishing a Mission Alternate options Evaluation Crew to evaluate choices to restructure the Landsat Subsequent mission to supply continuity of the Landsat imagery at a decrease value.
In Might, the company’s Fiscal 12 months 2026 Price range Request said that NASA will develop a revised plan for the Landsat Subsequent mission. On Might 28, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate commissioned an impartial Landsat Mission Alternate options Evaluation Crew with the specific intention of figuring out choices in step with the administration’s priorities. The staff will consider different mission architectures to assist a extra inexpensive strategy whereas sustaining continuity of the present Landsat program efficiency. The staff kicked off in June and can ship findings to the Science Mission Directorate and the U.S. Geological Survey following completion of the 16-week evaluation.
Data on Future Portal for Archiving NASA-funded Accepted Manuscripts
The NASA Scientific and Technical Data (STI) Program is growing an exterior submission portal for NASA-funded investigators to submit Accepted Manuscripts and different STI merchandise. The portal is anticipated to be obtainable later this summer season.
The exterior portal will likely be used rather than the Nationwide Institutes of Well being Manuscripts System (NIHMS), for grant and cooperative settlement recipients. The exterior portal will present a extra direct and streamlined Accepted Manuscript submission course of for recipients. The STI Program will ship communications previous to the beginning date with directions and reminders.
As a part of this transition, an data web page in regards to the new portal is on the market on the STI Program web site which will likely be up to date all through the method: https://sti.nasa.gov/new-external-submission-portal/.
The STI Program invitations feedback and questions on this new exterior manuscript submission portal through the Research Access Help Desk at https://sti.nasa.gov/sti-contact-form/?RequestType=ResearchAccess.
Twin-Nameless Peer Evaluation
In our “ROSES” analysis solicitation we now have expanded using dual-anonymous peer evaluate through which, not solely are proposers not advised the identification their reviewers, the reviewers are usually not advised the identification of the proposers (till after they’ve evaluated the scientific benefit of the entire anonymized proposals). To be taught extra about dual-anonymous peer evaluate see https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/dual-anonymous-peer-review.
No Due Dates?
In our “ROSES” analysis solicitation we now have expanded the variety of applications with no fastened due date. To those no due date applications (together with seven in planetary science), proposals could also be submitted at any time with none preliminary assertion resembling a Discover of Intent or Step-1 proposal. For extra data see https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/NoDD.
Want Recommendation about ROSES and proposal writing?
On the library and useful links page we now have sources which may be helpful to those that are new to proposing to ROSES: Hyperlinks to YouTube variations of displays given at Goddard in February 2022 at https://youtu.be/62QqJ2Nnlzc and older by Max Bernstein (NASA HQ) and Christina Richey (JPL) about proposal writing. Each the video of Dr. Richey (because of the SETI Institute) and the video of Max Bernstein (because of NASA Ames Analysis Middle). Different data that possibly helpful to early profession/ potential new PIs could also be discovered at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/new-pi-resources.
