#OPAG - Concluding posts for Day One here. Here's the agenda for Wednesday November 19 2025

#OPAG - General Discussion period open. Won't be posting about those proceedings.

#OPAG - Q&A Period: One question was if the new OWWG website is being hosted gratis by the Planetary Science Institute; the answer was yes, it was. OPAG team members are taking note and are thankful to PSI for doing so.

#OPAG - Astrobiology Survey is complete but the survey itself still going on, the speaker is asking the OPAG community to chime in. Presentation concludes.

#OPAG - in the FLOW survey - "Are you planning to stay in academia?" Less than 50% are thinking about remaining in the field, hearing that it's hard to justify staying in the field due to a lack of funding. Just can't see porting over to a career path at this time.

#OPAG - Attempting to navigate the Uncertainty for Early Career science

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#OPAG - Presentation concludes, but one can see really how this topsy-turvy environment has impacted NASA Science by this presentation. PS- there IS a NASA HQ Rep in attendance, but NASA itself is not presenting due to repercussions from the Govt. Shutdown.

#OPAG - Moving forward tasks for Ocean Worlds Working Group:

#OPAG - Current status:

#OPAG - Current impact - Decided that the OWWG should continue, Worked with PSI to set up a new non-redacted website, could not use the old mailing list, so we used other methods to inform the community, and can join a new mailing list, however it is run by Google, its having issues

#OPAG - Has been a disruptive year for the OWWG

#OPAG - Next

#OPAG - OPAG in a 15 m inute break

#OPAG - Presentation concludes

#OPAG - Some of the driving science looking at planetary defense is one of the elements but its for characterization, not detection

#OPAG - Some of the topics from the July 2025 Conference

#OPAG - Community science cases submitted thus far...some relevance here for the OPAG comminity, carefully tracking the reqirements

#OPAG - don't have a formal launch date yet, extected in the late 2030s so design is still in work. SPecs and instruments considered thus far

#OPAG - What is Habitable Worlds Observatory a "Hubble on Steroids"

#OPAG - reminder of what telescopes in space can do in space,

#OPAG - Giada Arney Habitable Worlds Observatory Update

#OPAG - Still HST's 35 anniversary!

#OPAG - Impacts of US Govt Shutdown on Hubble Space Telescope operations

#OPAG - Pippa Molyneux taking over HST - Sowing some of the other planet proposals accepted in cycle 33, still don't know the amount of $$ , will be using a formula-based approach. Still don't know the value of the Cyle 33. HST Funding is dropping a little.

#OPAG - Cycle 5 pie chart and Solar System GO per cycle,

#OPAG - Cycle 4 (closed) and JWST Cycle 5 information currently have an over subscription of 13 to 1 broke the record once more, community is growing and expanding 59 countries , 47 US States. Puts pressure on the community, proposals need to be reviewed.

#OPAG - Next

#OPAG - Question on Icing, A: will only be a few 100 meters above the surface will warm motors before we fly, rotors should not be an issue

#OPAG - #Dragonfly flight path to launch