The following selections have been made in response to the Small Explorer (SMEX) and Mission of Opportunity Announcement of Opportunity (AO 99-OSS-05):

SMEX proposals selected for study:
PRIME (Wei Zheng, The Johns Hopkins University)
STEP (C. W. FrancisEveritt, Stanford University)
AIM (James M. Russell, Hampton University)
JMEX (Nicholas M. Schneider, University of Colorado, Boulder)
SPIDR (Supriya Chakrabarti, Boston University)
HNX (W. Robert Binns, Washington University, St. Louis)
Joule (Richard L. Kelley, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

Mission of Opportunity proposal selected for study:
SPEAR (Jerry Edelstein, University of California, Berkeley)

Mission of Opportunity proposal selected for flight:
CINDI (Roderick A.Heelis, University of Texas, Dallas)

Due to budget limitations within the Explorer Program, the beginning of the concept studies will be delayed until October 1, 2001.

Abstracts from the selected investigations may be found at http://spacescience.nasa.gov/codesr/smex/.

This notice is for your information. Letters are being sent to all proposers to this Announcement of Opportunity.

Paul Hertz
Explorer Program Scientist
Office of Space Science

SMEX Downselect Page

NASA Headquarters Responsible Office: Code SR
Last Updated: 13 September 2000
Author: Paul Hertz (Code SR)