2022 Senior Review of Operating Missions
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) periodically conducts independent, comparative reviews of its operating missions. NASA uses the findings from these reviews to define an implementation strategy and give programmatic direction to the missions and projects concerned for the next five fiscal years.
These reviews of operating missions are NASA’s highest form of peer review, as the subject is not a single science investigation, or even a single space mission, but rather a portfolio of operating missions. The reviews of operating missions are referred to as Senior Reviews, in recognition of the high level of the peer review.
The 2022 Senior Review included the following missions:
- Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra)
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi)
- Hubble Space Telescope (Hubble)
- Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)
- Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
- Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift)
- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission-Newton (XMM-Newton)
Panel Composition and Structure
The 2022 Astrophysics Senior will use a multi-level review structure (see figure below), in which four panels report to a Senior Review Subcommittee, which was established as a subordinate group to the Astrophysics Advisory Committee, consistent with the Charter of the Astrophysics Advisory Committee and compliant with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (P.L. 92-463).
2022 Call for Proposals - The Call for Proposals contains detailed instructions for proposal submission along with charges to the panels and Senior Review Subcommittee.
For information about prior Senior Reviews, please visit the Astrophysics Documents page.
