Open Science Opportunities for Missions and Observatories: Practical Choices to Shape Your Observing Adventure

This appendix presents a wealth of potential tasks to incorporate Open Science practices into a mission’s activities. These activities are roughly divided into three mission phases - the pre-proposal phase, the pre-launch phase, and the post-launch phase - with further divisions into culture and artifact related tasks. The list of tasks in a given mission phase does not repeat those listed in earlier phases even though the earlier tasks may still be relevant, and missions can choose to complete a given task related to any mission phase regardless of the current mission status. For example, the task “create a PID for the mission” is listed in the pre-launch phase, but it could be completed in the post-launch phase if not completed earlier or even in the pre-proposal phase if so desired. The motivation for including each task is included, along with a starting point on how to complete that task. We do not consider this list of activities to be exhaustive. In fact, many recommendations in this section are related to the NASA / USA mission process, but we hope the structure and the recommendations are useful, even outside the US-centric view. The ideas for several of these stem from the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles for data and research software, including existing standards in those areas (e.g., the many outcomes from the Research Data Alliance and the Research Software Alliance) (Barker et al. 2022). If you think of additional activities, please add them to the earliest relevant mission phase and category using the suggestion mode on the document. Please make sure the suggested activity is not already represented in the list before adding it. Link to the main living document: https://tinyurl.com/OpenScienceMissions