Open Science for Missions and Observatories: Practical Choices to Shape Your Observing Adventure
<ns5:p>Open Science activities are now used by multiple US agencies in the review of space- and ground-based observatory proposals, including NASA missions, as driven by federal mandates in the USA and reflected in related international statements. Including significant and numerous Open Science activities on those proposals makes missions and related efforts more competitive in the review process. However, some missions are hindered from completing the typical Open Science activities associated with mission products and would benefit from alternative options. This work provides a list of both the typical activities and additional innovative ideas for the production of mission artifacts and for mission culture generated from a discussion at the 2023 Data Analysis and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) meeting. We invite the mission and wider observing community to use this resource to improve their proposals by selecting the most relevant activities from the provided list to include in their proposal material. A mission is an adventure into the unknown. Open Science practices enrich that adventure. This work provides a starting point for missions to choose their own adventures or improve their current efforts. This work is written for space-based missions, but offers many ideas that are easily applicable to observatories and related observing efforts. We consider the online version of this publication to be a living document, meaning that additional contributions from the community to the provided list in the appendix are welcome even after publication.</ns5:p>
Authors
- Dariusz Wójcik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2658-6068)
- Matthew West (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7605-0050)
- B. Thomas
- Carl Shneider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3689-6959)
- Hook Hua (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-0933)
- Chris Lowder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8318-8229)
- J. Marcus Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-7650)
- Baptiste Cecconi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7915-5571)
- Brian W. Knosp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2266-8883)
- J. Ireland (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2019-8881)
- Zesen Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9570-5975)
- Ritesh Patel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8504-2725)
- Rebecca Ringuette (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-2023)
- Julie Barnum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8755-0694)
- Daniel Brandt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3034-5440)
- Rebecca Bishop (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6920-8625)
- Jon Vandegriff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0781-1565)
- Savvas Raptis
- Barbara Thompson
- Mike Frame
Institutions
- Centrum Badań Kosmicznych (PL)
- United States Geological Survey (US)
- Southwest Research Institute (US)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (US)
- University of Luxembourg (LU)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Observatoire de Paris (FR)
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (US)
- Heliophysics (US)
- PaneraTech (United States) (US)
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (US)
- European Space Research and Technology Centre (NL)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- F1000Research
- Published
- 2026-07-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.183314.1
- Primary Topic
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- California Institute of Technology
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory