1. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 1 SIM Science Team Meeting #10 Project Programmatic Update Jim Marr Project Manager J. Brett Watterson Deputy Project Manager Dec 16, 2003

2. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 2 Space Interferometry Mission Salient Features 3 parallel Michelson Stellar Interferometers 10 meter baseline Visible wavelength Launch Vehicle: Atlas V or Delta IV ELV Earth-trailing solar orbit 5 year mission life with 10 year goal SIM is a JPL, Caltech, Lockheed Martin, KSC NGST, and SIM Science Team partnership Science Goals Perform a search for other planetary systems by surveying 2000 nearby stars for astrometric signatures of planetary companions Survey a sample of 200 nearby stars for orbiting planets down to terrestrial-type masses Improve best current catalog of star positions by >100x and extend to fainter stars to allow extension of stellar knowledge to include our entire galaxy Study dynamics and evolution of stars and star clusters in our galaxy to understand how our galaxy was formed and how it will evolve. Calibrate luminosities of important stars and cosmological distance indicators to improve our understanding of stellar processes and to measure precise distance in the distant universe

3. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 3 SIM Synoptic Schedule Tech. Dev. FY’98FY’99FY’00FY’01FY’02FY’03FY’04FY’05FY’06 Phase A Phase B Select Ind. Partners FY’07 Design Selection 3/01 ERB IA 12/09 Launch 9/06 CDR AO Science Team Selection FY’08 Phase C/D FY’09 11/03 SRR 8/03 5/05 PDR/ NAR 6/05 CR (NASA PMC) 10/05 New Beam Launcher Demo (Complete) MAM-1 and Kite at Level 1 (Complete) Nano technologyFinished (STB-3) (Complete) Pathlength Feedfoward Verification (4/05) 4/03 PMSR ICA 6/10/03 ICRR 6/18/03 ICR FY’1 0 13-year Phase E Starts in 06/10 Ends in 06/23 MAM-1 Wide Angle Basic Req (Complete) MAM-1 NA Goal Benchmark (Complete) MAM-1 WA Goal Benchmark (2/04) CA 6/05 CRR Pre-Phase B Tech Gates Pre-Phase C Tech Gates 1/08 I&T Start 8/09 Ship to KSC IOC New: 1+5 mo IOC now In Ph CD New: NA goal met New: SRR completed ATLO = Assy, Test & Launch Ops ERB = External Review Board PMSR = Preliminary Mission & Systems Review SRR = System Requirements Review CA = Confirmation Assessment IA = Independent Assessment NAR = Non Advocate Review ICRR = Initial Confirmation Readiness Review (JPL GPMC) CDR = Critical Design Review I&T = Integration & Test PDR = Preliminary Design Review ICR = Initial Confirmation Review (Code S EPMC) CR = Confirmation Review (NASA PMC) NASA PMC = Programmatic Management Council Last ST update Today

4. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 4 SIM Organization ELV MIM (KSC) C. Malloy = Members of Project Integrated Management Team Outreach (NP) W.M. Green SIM Program Executive (HQ) L. LaPiana Navigator Program (NP) M. Devirian - Manager C. Beichman - Scientist Project Manager J. Marr Deputy Project Manager B. Watterson Project Scientist M. Shao Project Business Manager M. Raymond Project System Engineering C. Guiar - System Engr) Mission System D. Bindschadler - Mgr K. Simpson - DMgr (Act) Mission Assurance A. Doran - Mgr APD (JPL) L. Simmons - Mgr J. Van Zyl - Dep Mgr SIM Program Scientist (HQ) P. Crane Launch Support Office A. Chatterjee Programmatic Line Support Project Technical Staff Instrument Partner Manager M. Margulis S/C-ATLO Partner Manager K. Rourke Project Engineer/Architect J. Yu Project Technologist R. Laskin Project Business Office Acquisition Manager/CTM John Davidson Administrator/Librarian Joy Hodges Project Resource Administrator Martha Criss Scheduler John Mann Flight System (Seg) R. Laskin - Manager C. Bell - Dep Mgr Instrument Spacecraft Science Office S. Unwin- Mgr & DPS SIM Science Team Science Planning Team A. Wehrle - Lead SIM Science Ops System D. Perz -Mgr MSC Ground Segment D. Biondschadler (Actg) New

5. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 5 Accomplishments Since ST#9 (1) Programmatic: Launch vehicle changed from STS to Atlas V or Delta IV Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) June 22nd -Held technical interchange meeting with KSC mission integration team on Oct 1st & 2nd SIM completed transition to Phase B on August 18th System Requirements Review (SRR) completed Nov 18-20th -Level 2 Preliminary; Level 3 Draft; Level 4 Key/Driving -Navigator Program Independent Review Team (NP IRT) briefed NASA OSS Astronomy & Physics Division (APD) on Dec 10th -No significant issues Decision made to move responsibility for Lockheed Martin (LM) effort from LM to JPL following significant phase B cost estimate increase -Collector subsystem; Metrology subsystem; Instrument Integration & Test -Transition underway now

6. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 6 Accomplishments Since ST#9 (2) Updated SIM PLRA to Preliminary for SRR -Format has changed somewhat (still evolving) to make actual Level 1 requirements clearer -See PLRA for details (in ST folder on sim-lib, ‘Collection 817’) SIM was given an $8M budget reduction in FY04 by the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) to cover a small piece of the NASA “earmarks” -Estimated impact is 1 to 1.5 month slip in SIM schedule but details of what work will slip have not yet been completed Awarded one Grid Star RV survey contract for the northern hemisphere -Verne Smith at U of Texas using McDonald 2.1m telescope with echelle spectrograph with iodine cell -Developed a plan for non-competitive contracts to provide remaining sky coverage Equatorial Band: Mt. Wilson Observatory 2.5m telescope with CfA/SAO portable spectrograph AFOE Southern Hemisphere: Swiss 1.2m telescope in Chile using planet-finding instruments already in place. Also have backup options.

7. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 7 Accomplishments Since ST#9 (3) Technical: Held SIMTAC #30 at JPL (Jun 26th & 27th) -Topics: LV trade; Astrometric Error Budget; Modeling updates in several areas; Tighter AACS trade study; SIM alignment; Instrument electronics design; MAM milestone #5 update Held SIMTAC #31 at JPL (Sep 9th & 10th) -Topics: AEB peer review; Grid star plan; Removal of field dependent astigmatism; MAM latest results; TOM 1c status; Spacecraft slew and settle; and Dynamics & control requirements & verification Met HQ Milestone #6, Narrow Angle Goal Performance -SIMTAC and NP-IRT concurred with achievement of 20 pm against goal performance of 24 pm needed for 1 uas narrow angle astrometry Requirements and design reviews held for Brassboards needed for technology milestone #8

8. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 8 Milestone#6: MAM Narrow Angle Results 0+0.5degree-0.5degreeField position TR4TR2TR3T SSSSSS 30 s TR5R2 S….SS time T R2R2 R4R4 R5R5 R3R3 Results Benchmark capability of the MAM single baseline interferometer, used as the SIM science interferometer sensor would be used in the narrow angle (1 deg field of regard) planet finding deep- search mode, to perform at the ‘goal’ level (24 pm) needed for 1 uas astrometry. The project will continue investigating reasons for the data dispersion (resulting in the large standard deviation) as part of continuing Milestone #7 activities Overall SIM Narrow Angle Astrometry performance predict is currently 1.2 uas vs 1.0 uas goal

9. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 9 SIM Narrow Angle Metric

10. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 10 SIM Wide Angle Metric

11. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 11 Accomplishments Since ST#9 (4) Other: (N) Held (June 18) “Fireside Chat” on SIM Science with OSS AA -SIM contributions to astrophysics beyond planet finding (N) Gave a SIM status briefing to the Origins Subcommittee on July 1st -Covered project status and SIM contributions to astrophysics beyond planet finding -Concept for a large number (~20k) of medium accuracy (~50 uas) astrometry measurements in a guest observer like role was well received The 27th SIM Newsletter “Fringes” was published Jun 6th announcing and explaining the completion of NASA HQ milestone #5, MAM wide angle basic performance (needed for 30 uas wide angle astrometry) The 28th SIM Newsletter “Fringes” was published Jun 20th, announcing SIM’s completion of the major reviews required for Phase B entry (actual Phase B start was August 18th)

12. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 12 Near Term Plans AAS Atlanta, GA meeting Jan 4th through 8th -Special session on SIM GO program SIM cost to complete update planned for Jan through March -Delayed to Feb through April due to waiting for expected budget changes in the President’s budget to be released in late January SIMTAC #32 meeting Jan 14th & 15th to set evaluation criteria for meeting HQ milestone #8 (due Feb 2004) SIMTAC #33 meeting (TBD, March?) to review results of HQ technology milestone #7, MAM wide angle goal performance that is due in Feb 2003

13. J Marr SIM ST#10 Space Interferometry Mission A NASA Origins Mission SIM Dec 16-18, 2003SIM Pgm Status, 13 Manager’s Assessment SIM continues to make good progress towards technology completion -All four milestones needed for Phase B entry are now complete -First two of four Phase C/D milestones completed (MAM Wide Angle Baseline Performance & MAM Narrow Angle Goal Performance) SIM completed transition to Phase B on schedule SIM System Requirements Review (SRR) completed in Nov, 2003 on schedule SIM is holding schedule so far, although budget changes from above may impact that soon