Amendment 39: B.9 Heliophysics Low Cost Access to Space Proposal Due Date Delay

B.9 Heliophysics Low Cost Access to Space (H-LCAS) solicits proposals to investigate key heliophysics science questions and to advance the development of technologies and their application to enable new investigations of heliophysics science questions in the coming years. This is achieved through investigations flown on suborbital rockets, stratospheric balloons, or airborne platforms.

ROSES-2024 Amendment 39 delays the due date for proposals to November 15, 2024.

Recent changes in the NASA HQ guidance for the Sounding Rocket Program, starting in 2026 and extending beyond, imposes unanticipated programmatic constraints on the selection of LCAS investigations with sounding rocket launch requirements outside of currently existing campaign plans that utilize ranges other than WFF and WSMR.  These constraints on sounding rocket launch opportunities apply to most of the sounding rocket proposals submitted to the LCAS 2023 competition. Implementing these programmatic constraints on the evaluation of proposals has delayed the 2023 LCAS selection. Since some LCAS 2024 proposals will have critical input from the evaluations of declined LCAS 2023 proposals, the due date for the 2024 LCAS proposals has been delayed until November 15, 2024.

A subsequent amendment will provide further guidance to proposers to the 2024 LCAS program element utilizing sounding rocket access to space.

On or about August 7, 2024, this Amendment to the NASA Research Announcement "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2024" (NNH24ZDA001N) will be posted on the NASA research opportunity homepage at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2024

Questions concerning B.9 LCAS may be directed to Dan Moses at dan.moses@nasa.gov.

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