NASA Space Weather Science Application Strategy and Activities

<p>The NASA Heliophysics Division Space Weather Science Application (SWxSA) program has as its strategic mission to establish a preeminent space weather capability that supports human and robotic space exploration and meets national, international, and societal needs. This is done by advancing measurement and analysis techniques and expanding knowledge and understanding that improves space weather forecasts and nowcasts. Ultimately, the SWxSA program enables space weather forecasting capability that the Agency and Nation and international community require, in partnership with NASA’s Artemis Program and other Federal agencies, and international partners. This includes the development and launch of missions/instruments that advance our knowledge of space weather and improve its prediction, and the transitioning of technology, tools, models, data, and knowledge from research to operational environments. This presentation will provide an update on NASA’s SWxSA space weather strategy and activities.</p>

Cross-NASA divisional relevance of an Ice Giant mission

Robotic space exploration to the outer solar system is difficult and expensive and the space science community works inventively and collaboratively to maximize the scientific return of missions. A mission to either of our solar system Ice Giants, Uranus and Neptune, will provide numerous opportunities to address high-level science objectives relevant to multiple disciplines and deliberate cross-disciplinary mission planning should ideally be woven in from the start. In this review, we recount past successes as well as (NASA-focused) challenges in performing cross-disciplinary science from robotic space exploration missions and detail the opportunities for broad-reaching science objectives from potential future missions to the Ice Giants. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Future exploration of ice giant systems’.

Virtual Environment Systems for Simulating Robots in Manned Space Fligts.

The article considers computer-based prototyping as part of simulation stands and space simulators for future human-robotic space exploration, as well as features of using virtual environment systems (VES) for this purpose. The article describes the formulation of research tasks related to the use of VES-based simulation stands and systems in modeling the cosmonauts’ activities relying on the experience of designing orbital simulators. In prospect it will justify the composition and purpose of the VES modules for lunar projects and clarify the use of VR-technologies in the simulation of robotic operations during human exploration of the moon.