Instrument suite cost optimisation in a science megaproject

A Guide for Megaproject Researchers

Regression Testing Cost Reduction Suite

The estimated cost of software maintenance exceeds 70 percent of total software costs [1], and large portion of this maintenance expenses is devoted to regression testing. Regression testing is an expensive and frequently executed maintenance activity used to revalidate the modified software. Any reduction in the cost of regression testing would help to reduce the software maintenance cost. Tes...

GENESIS: The General Earth Science Investigation Suite

GENESIS is a NASA-sponsored partnership between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, academia, and three NASA data centers to develop a new suite of web services tools to facilitate multi-sensor investigations in Earth System Science. Residing within a framework known as SciFlo, these tools will offer versatile operators for data access, subsetting, registration, fusion, compression, and advanced sta...

Cost/Risk Optimisation (C/RO)

The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus

NASA’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission will make the first in situ measurements of the solar corona and the birthplace of the solar wind. The FIELDS instrument suite on SPP will make direct measurements of electric and magnetic fields, the properties of in situ plasma waves, electron density and temperature profiles, and interplanetary radio emissions, amongst other things. Here, we describe the...