Enduring Quests and Daring Visions
Enduring Quests and Daring Visions is a vision for astrophysics programs released in late 2013.[1] It lays out plans over 30 years as long-term goals and missions.[1] Goals include mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and finding Earth like exoplanets.[2] To go deeper into space-time studying the Large Scale Structure of the Universe, extreme physics, and looking back farther in time.[2]
Examples of discussed missions include:[3]
- Astro-H (Hitomi)
- Black Hole Mapper
- CMB Polarization Surveyor
- Cosmic Dawn
- Euclid
- ExoEarth Mapper
- Gaia
- Gravitational Wave Surveyor/Mapper
- Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx)
- Far-Infrared Surveyor (later renamed the Origins Space Telescope)
- JEM-EUSO
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
- Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR)
- Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- WFIRST-AFTA
- X-Ray Surveyor (later renamed the Lynx X-ray Observatory)
References
- ^ a b "NASA Lays Out Long-term Vision for Astrophysics - Moonandback". moonandback.com. 2013-12-22.
- ^ a b "Astrophysics Roadmap" (PDF). nasa.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-07-12.
- ^ Hall, Shannon (17 January 2014). "Enduring Quests and Daring Visions: NASA Lays Out a Roadmap for Astrophysics - Universe Today". universetoday.com.