NASA SALMON AO Amendment 9: Release of a solicitation for SOFIA Second Generation Instrument Investigations

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Release Date: July 8, 2011
Preproposal Teleconference: August 4, 2011
Notice of Intent to propose Due: August 15, 2011
Proposals Due: October 7, 2011

With this amendment, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Announcement of Opportunity (AO) NNH08ZDA009O, “Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON),” is amended to establish a new Program Element Appendix (PEA) as Appendix H8, SOFIA Second Generation Instrument Investigations. This PEA is a call for science investigations that include the development, delivery, and use of second generation instruments for the SOFIA observatory. SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, consists of a German