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2020 Technical Development Proposals Due
The Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) is soliciting follow-on technical development proposals from Caltech Campus faculty who have been participants in previous KISS Study Programs. Submit a PDF version of your Proposal by April 1, 2020.
22 - 26
Workshop: The Next-Generation Ground-Based Planetary Radar
The goal of this workshop is to explore approaches to the next-generation planetary radar capable of providing compelling science and motivating NASA science missions as well as potentially providing NASA mission assurance by being able to track spacecraft.
6 - 10
Workshop: Next-Generation Planetary Geodesy
This workshop will focus on Mars, Venus, and Ocean Worlds of the outer solar system, and consider technologies such as spacecraft-to-spacecraft ranging, gradiometers, and the deployment of retroreflectors and radio beacons on planetary surfaces.
Proposal Concepts Due
Proposals Due
Panel Session/Networking Event:
The Space Connection - Navigating the Bridge between JPL and the Caltech Campus
Proposals Selections Announced
Solicitation Release Date
Proposal Concepts Due (noon)
Proposals Due (noon)
Star Formation and Nearby Galaxies with JWST
Proposal Concepts Due
KISS Affiliates Program Nominations Concepts Due
Proposals Due
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2020 KISS Study Program Selections Announced
The KISS Steering Committee has selected the following programs for inclusion into the 2020 KISS Study Program
- Next Generation Planetary Geodesy
- The Next-Generation Ground-Based Planetary Radar
- Venus In-Situ Sample Capture Mission
- Revolutionizing Access to the Martian Surface
- Non-Nuclear Exploration of The Solar System
Exploring Jupiter
In this lecture, Dr. Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, a senior scientist from the Planetary Science Institute, discussed how our knowledge of Jupiter has evolved and talked about the latest mission, Juno, in orbit now around Jupiter.
Juno carries a visible imager (“JunoCam”) on the payload. Conceived as an outreach instrument, JunoCam has engaged the public in many aspects of the real work of an imaging team.
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Does Io Have a Magma Ocean?
Future space missions will further our knowledge of tidal heating and orbital resonances, processes thought to create spectacular volcanism and oceans of magma or water on other worlds. For as much as we know, there remain fundamental gaps in our understanding of tidal heating. At a Keck Institute for Space Studies workshop [de Kleer et al., 2019] in October 2018, participants discussed the current state of knowledge about tidal heating as well as how future spacecraft missions to select solar system targets could help address these gaps.
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Final Report: The Architecture of the LISA Science Analysis
The space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA will offer unparalleled science returns, including a view of massive black hole mergers up to high redshifts, precision tests of general relativity and black hole structure, a census of thousands of compact binaries in the Galaxy, and the possibility of detecting stochastic signals from the early Universe.
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