Code 810: Sounding Rockets Program Office
Code 810: Sounding Rocket Process
NASA Headquarters supports scientific research by soliciting proposals through NASA Research Announcements. A peer review process is used to evaluate and select proposals. Please visit the NSPIRES website for information on NASA science opportunities.
The Sounding Rockets Program Office (SRPO) encourages
organizations, not funded through a NASA Research Opportunity,
to arrange missions by contacting the
SRPO directly. The following SRPO staff members support re-imbursable
missions in the listed areas of expertise, and are available
to discuss requirements and capabilities.
Philip Eberspeaker - Chief/Sounding Rockets
Program Office
Charles Brodell - Exploration
Greg Smith - Hypersonics
John Hickman - Department of Defense (DoD)
Emmett (Tripp) Ransone - NASA
Program Flow for NASA supported research missions :
1. Principal Investigator (PI) responds to a NASA Research Announcement
by submitting a proposal.
2. Abstracts are reviewed by the Sounding Rockets Program Office
(SRPO)
3. SRPO provides feedback on feasibility and potential issues
4. NASA Headquarters selects propsals for funding
Mission Implementation Flow (following proposal acceptance):
(Download Flow Chart, pdf)1. PI requests a Mission Initiation Conference (MIC) through SRPO
2. SRPO schedules the MIC
3. SRPO conducts the MIC
4. NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract (NSROC) works with the PI to refine requirements and develops a cost estimate.
5. NSROC conducts the Requirements Definition Meeting
6. Design effort begins
7. NSROC conducts Design Review
8. Hardware fabrication
9. Payload Integration
10. Environmental Testing (T&E)
11. NSROC holds Mission Readiness Review
12. NSROC ships payload
12 a. Science Team Performs final instrument calisbration and post T&E checks
13. NSROC travel
13 a. Science team travels and ships instrument
14. Field integration and testing
15. Launch Operations
16. Data Distribution
17. PI Feedback
18. Mission Task Closeout
19. Fee determination during 6 month PEB
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NASA Fact
Can you hear in space? In theory, if there is nothing to receive the sound, there is no sound. Because there are no "air waves" in space to conduct the sound, it would not carry. So, the object would make a noise, but it would not carry to any receiver, and no one would hear it.
