Senior Review Reports
The NASA Science Mission Directorate, or SMD, conducts comparative reviews of operating missions within each science division to assess the scientific return from these missions. The Senior Review, held every two years, assists NASA in maximizing the productivity from its operating missions within a constrained budget. NASA uses the findings from the Senior Review to define an implementation strategy and give programmatic direction to the missions and projects reviewed through the next five fiscal years.
This established practice was codified in the NASA Authorization Act of 2005: “The Administrator shall carry out biennial reviews within each of the Science divisions to assess the cost and benefits of extending the date of the termination of data collection for those missions that have exceeded their planned mission life time.”
- NASA Response to the 2023 Senior Review for Heliophysics Operating Missions
- 2023 Heliophysics Senior Review Report
- 2022 HSO Infrastructure Review Decision Memo
- 2020 Senior Review of the Heliophysics Operating Missions
- NASA Response to the 2020 Senior Review for Heliophysics Operating Missions
- 2017 HPAC Recommendations Acceptance Letter
- 2017 Senior Review of the Heliophysics Operating Missions
- 2017 NASA Helio Division Response to Recommendations
- 2015 Senior Review of the Heliophysics Operating Missions
- NASA Response to the 2015 Senior Review for Heliophysics Operating Missions
- Final report of the 2013 Heliophysics mission Senior Review
- 2010 Senior Review of the Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program for the Heliophysics Operating Missions
- 2009 Senior Review of the Heliophysics Data Archives
- Reactions to the Senior Review of Data Centers, Fall 2009
- 2008 Senior Review of the Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program for the Heliophysics Operating Missions
- 2006 Senior Review of the National Space Science Data Center and the Heliophysics Data and Modeling Centers
- 2005 Senior Review of Sun-Solar-System Connection Missions Operations and Data Analysis Program
- 2003 Senior Review of the Sun-Earth Connection Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program
- 2001 Senior Review of the Sun-Earth Connection Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program
- 2001 Assessment of NASA’s Space Science Research and Analysis Programs
- 2001 Recommendations and Decision for the Space Science Research and Analysis (R&A) programs
- 1997 Senior Review of the Sun-Earth Connection Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program
