2024 ASCEND Day 1: MICRO 07 Should Technology Advances Drive Decadal Survey Science or Vice Versa
This session brought together a group of experts in science and technology who had supported the National Academies Decadal Surveys process across Earth, Astrophysics, and Planetary science.
They debated whether our scientific ambitions had been limited by the perceived community consensus that developing low-risk and high-heritage missions could produce the most exciting scientific discoveries. New technology capabilities, not necessarily broadly known or considered too high-risk, had the opportunity to change scientific thinking, leading to the ability of the community to ask more ambitious and transformative science questions that could dramatically alter our view of the solar system and universe beyond.
The experts debated whether a change in the Decadal Survey recommendation process should be considered to achieve such goals.
Panelists:
Harriet Brettle, Executive Director, Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS)
Adrienn Luspay-Kuti, Principal Investigator, PIMS, Johns Hopkins University Applied
Charles Norton, Deputy Chief Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Miguel San Martín, Engineering Fellow, Guidance & Control, Autonomous Systems Division,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Thomas Zurbuchen, Professor and Director ETH Zurich Space, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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