Talk:Planetary Missions Program Office

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SIMPLEx
I have been working on a draft article about the SIMPLEx program. It hasn't been approved to become an article because it doesn't have enough sources, and I think it will do better as a section of an article. I want to add parts of my draft page to this page. Should I add it? Which information from my draft should I keep? Nrl103 (talk) 20:41, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, the Planetary Missions Program Office isn't involved in SIMPLEx. At least, their web page doesn't claim any SIMPLEx mission as one they manage, and the SIMPLEx acquisition page says it's under the Science Office for Mission Assessments (SOMA) at NASA Langley Research Center. So I don't think the article on the Planetary Missions Program Office is the right place for information on SIMPLEx. Fcrary (talk) 00:00, 15 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Okay. I think SOMA is just the office that selects NASA missions. According to an article on the NASA website about the Janus mission, which is a part of SIMPLEx, Janus is managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office. What makes it more confusing is that it then says that Janus is a part of the Solar System Exploration program. There isn't very much information about SIMPLEx on the internet, and some of it is confusing. I'm not sure whether information on SIMPLEx should go here or somewhere else, but I think that it needs to be somewhere on Wikipedia. Nrl103 (talk) 22:53, 19 February 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree SIMPLEx should be covered in some way, but it's organizationally a mess. So it's not surprise the available information is confusing. Q-PACE, for example, was an ELaNa] project, which are managed by Launch Services Program at Kennedy. But it was funded through SIMPLEx. And, although I don't have published references, future solicitations for SIMPLEx missions are on hold until NASA figures out what to do with it. Several SIMPLEx missions have had real problems staying within the $55 million cost cap. So NASA headquarters is reevaluating how to handle small spacecraft planetary missions. Until they figure that out, which program office is responsible is likely to be inconsistent, probably confusing and definitely hard to find good references for in a wikipedia article. I'm not sure what we can do about that; it's like articles concerning current events but with the events talking years to resolve themselves. [[User:Fcrary|Fcrary (talk) 03:27, 20 February 2022 (UTC)


 * I think NASA will make a decision when we start getting science results from a SIMPLEx mission. That could happen in just a few months after LunaH-Map launches. I'm now thinking that maybe I can add a section on SIMPLEx to the wikipedia page 'List of uncrewed NASA missions'. Do you know of any other pages that would work? Nrl103 (talk) 16:54, 21 February 2022 (UTC)


 * The small satellite article might also be a place for information on SIMPLEx. Fcrary (talk) 18:53, 21 February 2022 (UTC)