The PI Launchpad Expanding the base of potential Principal Investigators across space sciences

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The PI Launchpad:

Expanding the base of potential Principal

Investigators across space sciences

Erika Hamden 1,∗, Michael H. New 2, D.E. (Betsy) Pugel 3, Michael Liemohn 4,

Randii Wessen 5, Richard Quinn 6, Paul Propster 5, Kirsten Petree 2, Ellen M.

Gertsen2, Paula Evans7, and Nicole Cabrera Salazar 8

Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 S Cherry Ave, Tucson AZ, 85719,

USA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters, 300 Hidden Figures

Way SW, Washington D.C., 20546, USA

3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771,

USA

4Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of

Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109,

USA

6NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 94035, USA

7LMI Consulting, LLC, 7940 Jones Branch Dr, Tysons, VA 22102, USA

8Movement Consulting, LLC, Atlanta, GA, USA

Correspondence*:

Erika Hamden

hamden@arizona.edu

ABSTRACT

The PI Launchpad attempts to provide an entry level explanation of the process of space

mission development for new Principal Investigators (PIs). In particular, PI launchpad has a

focus on building teams, making partnerships, and science concept maturity for a space mission

concept, not necessarily technical or engineering practices. Here we brieﬂy summarize the goals

of the PI Launchpad workshops and present some results from the workshops held in 2019 and

2021. The workshop attempts to describe the current process of space mission development

(i.e. space-based telescopes and instrument platforms, planetary missions of all types, etc.),

covering a wide range of topics that a new PI may need to successfully develop a team and

write a proposal. It is not designed to replace real experience but to provide an easily accessible

resource for potential PIs who seek to learn more about what it takes to submit a space mission

proposal, and what the ﬁrst steps to take can be. The PI Launchpad was created in response to

the high barrier to entry for early career or any scientist who is unfamiliar with mission design.

These barriers have been outlined in several recent papers and reports, and are called out in

recent space science Decadal reports.

Keywords: Space Missions, Space Sciences, PI training, Inclusion, Workshops

arXiv:2210.03769v1 [astro-ph.IM] 7 Oct 2022

Hamden et al. The PI Launchpad

1 INTRODUCTION

The process of successful space mission development is long, iterative, and challenging. It can also be

extremely rewarding, inspiring, and even fun! Due in large part to the competitive nature of the proposal

process, the behind the scenes work of developing a new mission and writing the resulting proposal can be

relatively opaque. It is often a challenge for new PIs to break into this space, ﬁnding themselves behind the

ball from the start, uncertain of next steps, and without adequate support and resources to move forward.

These obstacles are borne out by the demographics both of PIs and Science team members for selected and

proposed space missions, which tend to be both very male and very white (Centrella et al., 2019). A recent

report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine has detailed both the problem

in PI demographics and made recommendations which cover, among other things, de-mystifying and

simplifying the proposal process, supporting potential PIs with training, building PI training into existing

missions, and supporting underrepresented groups (National Academies of Sciences and Medicine, 2022a).

Here we present the PI Launchpad, a workshop which seeks to address some of the challenges a new

PI will inevitably run into when developing a mission concept for the ﬁrst time and give them tools and

contacts to address these challenges with an eye towards mission success. The workshop is jointly funded

by the Heising-Simons Foundation and NASA. The ﬁrst workshop was held in November, 2019 in Tucson,

Arizona, over three days. A second workshop was held virtually in June 2021 and took place over two

weeks. A third workshop is in development for July 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Additional workshops

will be held every two years.

For more detail on the proposal process itself, including NASA’s review and evaluation process, please

see NASA’s webpage for new PIs (New PI Resources) and a colloquium by Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen

which describes the evaluation process (Link to Youtube). In addition, a presentation from the 2019 PI

Launchpad provides an outline for the NASA evaluation process (Proposal Process), with a graphic from

this presentation shown in Figure 1. For more detail on best practices for proposal development, with a

focus on how to create compelling science-driven mission concepts, see Wessen et al. (2022).

Figure 1.

A ﬂowchart of the NASA evaluation process for PI lead missions. Slide taken from 2019 PI

Launchpad.

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