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Senior Review 2012 Summary Presented to AAAC May 11, 2012. Jaya Bajpayee Program Executive Astrophysics Operating Missions & Physics of the Cosmos Program. 2012 Senior Review of Operating Missions. Call for proposals and results of past senior reviews at:
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Senior Review 2012 SummaryPresented to AAACMay 11, 2012 Jaya Bajpayee Program Executive Astrophysics Operating Missions & Physics of the Cosmos Program
2012 Senior Review of Operating Missions • Call for proposals and results of past senior reviews at: • http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/2012-senior-review/ Astro 2012 SR - Presentation to AAAC
Overall Findings SRC 2012 didn’t provide an overall rank-order • They felt we have a minimum set of missions – nothing can be turned off • SRC rated Missions in 5 Metrics: • Discovery Space, Long Term Impact, Publications/$, Synergy, Criticality • SRC also considered missions among each class • Great Observatories: HST & Chandra • Discovery/Probe Class: Kepler, Fermi, Spitzer • Explorer: Swift • Foreign: Planck, Suzaku, XMM-Newton Overall Recommendations: • Reduce cost of mission operations • Increase GO funding Astro 2012 SR - Presentation to AAAC
Rating by Metrics Astro 2012 SR - Presentation to AAAC