#SBAG - (cont) ...less efficient and will impair scientific return.
#SBAG - there is EXTREME concern that the community is losing institutional knowledge in the workforce across all career levels. People are leaving the field. This introduces knowledge gaps across the board. Also mission cancellations will make the remaining missions more costly, (cont)
#SBAG - Ramifications of Large Scale Cutbacks, Shared Resources & Loss of Workforce: The entire community is interconnected, there's overlap among personnel, hardware, software, processes and tech development that impacts mission science and engineering teams. (cont)
#SBAG - "Doing so with an existing asset just makes sense in a budget tight scenario."
#SBAG - 2) OSIRIS-APEX: NASA has said they will not fly the JANUS SmallSats to Apophis, nor participate in the ESA RAMSES mission to the same Asteroid when it makes it close approach to Earth in 2029. OSIRIS-APEX which reuses the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is the only viable low cost & low risk option.
#SBAG - of two-way communication between the various science communities and NASA. That the AG's represent the voice of the various science communities and this link is vital to both the science community and NASA.
#SBAG - SBAG has concluded. Some concerns coming out I'll caution and say these are preliminary. 1) Saving the Assessment/Analysis Groups. (AG)The contention is that groups like SBAG play a role in small bodies science as do the other AGs and they should be kept in tact to provide a conduit...
#SBAG - Next science team meeting
#SBAG - Got more dust detector data back, expecting dust destines to drop off as we get further out. Have NOT seen that
#SBAG - Still looking for flyby targets targets are 1 au forth spacecraft, hoping together time on Rubin, Roman would be the best bet,
#SBAG - can only sat in active ops 3 months per year, already a bit behind at getting data back and at some point we won't get data back.
#SBAG - All instruments operating well, new modes can do better science will re enter hibernation 7 August collecting dust particle data but can't get data down, have to hibernate due to budget Discussed doing a solar system portrait
#SBAG - Upcoming Pluto System conference
#SBAG - Next
#SBAG - Conclusion
#SBAG - When arrays are shutting they go to 0 voltage between the two currents , produces a magnetic field, good news no impact to any PSYCHE observations
#SBAG - On the Magnetometer is easy to see when the spacecraft is moving or thrusting can see something from a CME, and saw attempts to open up the stuck latch valve, we had some unexpected magnetic noise. Had a spike and didn't know where. Its coming form shunting of the solar arrays.
#SBAG - Instrument Status
#SBAG - Objectives and timelines , spacecraft is healthy DSOC is having a tech demo in July - August , came out of a long anomaly investigation , switched to the backup latch valve on June 17 began thrust, that has been confirmed. Only had 2 months of thrusting left, no impact to arrival date
Hal Levison at #SBAG makes the excellent point that because of the way the field works - everyone shares resources, and most people work on more than one program - even though Lucy is funded in the PBR, the effect of the proposed cuts would be 3-4x Lucy's reserves. Tell your reps to save US science!
#SBAG - Next
#SBAG - Lucy shares resources with other missions we can share those costs some of the missions we work with. some of those missions we work with are being cancelled this will eat into us by 3x-4x budget our reserves so this will impact heathy missions
#SBAG - Whereis the spacecraft now.
#SBAG - Here's at least the image I can show since its been all over the place
#SBAG - The results are subject to change told they are proprietary so a bit uncomfortable with showing additional information
#SBAG - shows the encounter geometry
#SBAG - Some of the main science instruments on the spacecraft
#SBAG - These astroids are tremendously diverse, its telling us something about the history of the solar system, on the right shows some of the key events including artists rendering of what the objects may look like