Dear all,
as promised, this is an email to set-up a common discussion between Chapter 2 and Chapter 4.
The background for this discussion: So far, most mission requirements and key design parameters have been derived from a science objective / requirement that had the form of ‘first blindly search and identify X many targets belonging to certain category and them characterise them all w.r.t. certain features’.
From what I understood last week, in addition to such objectives Chapter 2 will be formulating new science objectives that might use very different approaches and concepts. We will have to discuss how these can be picked up in Chapter 4.
For the goals of meeting I would suggest (but feel free to suggest something else entirely):
- Present (not discuss!) the current state of the science objectives. Be as concrete as possible in how the ‘experiments’ could be conducted.
- Collect to-dos that are needed to translate the new science objectives to mission requirements and key design parameters.
I would suggest to keep this meeting to 1h. If we have the time we can additionally discuss:
- Decide what can be done until the end of the year (what are action items, what are work packages)
- Discuss if the resulting content of Chapter 4 is a sufficient representation of the changed objectives in Chapter 2.
In case you are interested to join this discussion, please fill it out until this Wednesday.
Thanks and best,
Felix