NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) Webinar 29 July 2025
On July 29th at 12:30pm EDT, NASA’s Planetary Science Division (PMD) and Research and Analysis (R&A) Programs will be hosting a webinar regarding this year’s Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES). More details in the comments below.
- Join link: https://nasaevents.webex.com/nasaevents/j.php?MTID=m108697d5492b17ad8a6607c8b4cae66f
- In advance of and during the webinar, questions may be submitted and upvoted on at:
https://nasa.cnf.io/sessions/ss4t/#!/dashboard - Webinar number: 2821 078 7645
- Webinar password: xKwZry59Ek3 (95997959 when dialing from a phone or video system)
Join by phone
- +1-415-527-5035 United States Toll
- +1-312-500-3163 United States Toll (Chicago)
- Access code: 282 107 87645
Questions regarding this announcement may be directed to Dr. Kathleen Vander Kaaden, Director of Planetary Research Programs, at [email protected].
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Editor’s note: These are the questions submitted in advance of the event
162 Upvotes: If the final budget is not as dire as the PBR, will there be programs added later in FY2026, or more awards given per call?
140 Upvotes: How will reviewers be expected to rigorously evaluate a 5-page proposal for an award that could be 3-4 years in duration?
131 Upvotes: How will a sufficient number of reviewers be sourced for the Solar System Science program since it is so all encompassing?
125 Upvotes: How can NASA maintain US leadership and expertise in planetary science with such an anemic R&A program?
115 Upvotes: Are some of the programs rolled in to Solar System Science this year expected to be separated out again in the future?
105 Upvotes: ROSES SoS-10 states that a PI may only submit 1 proposal per cycle to a given program element. For SSS, which incorporates many previously disparate programs (e.g., MDAP, SSW, DDAP, PDART) this would seem to seriously limit opportunities that previously would have existed to apply to multiple programs within one ROSES cycle.
104 Upvotes: How will budget and number of selected proposals be balanced between all the programs now under SSS?
100 Upvotes: Are PIs allowed to submit an unlimited number of proposals to SSS or will there be a cap?
85 Upvotes: Is there a budgetary scenario in which the number of SSS awards is significantly increased above the currently expected number of 40-55?
82 Upvotes: Will there be a ROSES-2026 in February 2026 or will all the future ROSES be slipped in the calendar as well?
80 Upvotes: With no MATISSE or PICASSO, where do non-lunar instrumentation proposals be submitted? Are those also expected to go to SSS?
72 Upvotes: How is NASA planning to mitigate the disproportionate harm of lower selection rates and shorter proposals to underrepresented peoples and early career researchers?
69 Upvotes: Please clarify the rules for restrictions on interagency funds. For example, if a PI is at a NASA center, are funded Co-Is not allowed from other NASA centers and/or the USGS? If the PI is from the USGS, are they not allowed to have funded Co-Is from JPL or NASA centers?
66 Upvotes: How is this ROSES consistent with OWL’s prioritization of R+A? What’s the point of missions if we can’t analyze the data?
60 Upvotes: Are the prohibition on funding to government agencies other than NASA permanent or might they be removed in ROSES-26? What will happen to existing IAAs?
59 Upvotes: How soon after a PI is notified that their proposal is Selectable should they be expected to submit the E&R section and budget?
40 Upvotes: Would it be possible to have this webinar recorded for folks who are traveling and/or cannot attend at the time? Would it also be possible to have an FAQ with all the relevant questions posed here?
37 Upvotes: Would NASA clarify that organizations are still permitted to and even encouraged to collaborate with MSIs and other similar institutions in their efforts?
34 Upvotes: Please outline the process. 5-page STM, then when to work on budget and Data Management? Aren’t most proposals selectable?
33 Upvotes: How is the 1 yr limit for re-applying determined for the SSS program, e.g. a 2 yr 5 page proposal compared to a previous one?
32 Upvotes: Given the size of SSS, can the PI of a proposal submitted to SSS still serve on an SSS review panel? And what about Co-Is on submitted SSS proposals — can they serve on SSS review panels?
31 Upvotes: In the SSS program, will if be possible for the expert review panels to give feedback on the non-anonymized portion of the proposal? Or will program officers be solely responsible for judging if a team has sufficient expertise for a project?
29 Upvotes: Comment: one thing I like about the new SSS program is that it streamlines the process by only requiring the 5-page STM on initial submission.
26 Upvotes: If the budget cuts are really bad, will funding for year 2 and 3 of existing grants be prioritized over funding new grants?
24 Upvotes: In the NASA FY26 budget request, “the DAVINCI, VERITAS, and EnVision missions are eliminated. No funding is provided for the Venus Technology project and funding is reduced for peer-reviewed science” for Venus science. Are Venus science proposals that align with SMD goals still welcome and likely to get funded?
23 Upvotes: Please give some examples of how to anonymously describe participation on science or human analog missions for the A3 PSP.
19 Upvotes: Is SSS the new standard going forward? IE will there no longer be separate DAPs (MDAP, LDAP) in future years?
18 Upvotes: Let’s say X is the number of ultimately “Selected” proposals — roughly how many “Selectable” proposals do you anticipate? 1.5 X…? 2X…? 3X…? Even more…?
18 Upvotes: The massive cut in R&A funding (estimates are ~80% for ‘SSS’ programs, compared to 50% cut in PBR for NASA science) is completely inconsistent with the Decadal Survey rec of increasing the fraction of the PSD budget allocated to R&A. Does this mean NASA is no longer interested in following the DS and if so, what is the incentive for the community to participate in future surveys?
16 Upvotes: F.3 Exoplanets Research Step 1 is due on 11-23-15, a Sunday. Is this an error or a new standard going forward?
16 Upvotes: Regarding the question above about multiple SSS submissions that begins: “ROSES SoS-10 states that a PI may only submit 1 proposal per cycle to a given program element…” it references this specific line in ROSES 25 (page SoS-10): “The first limitation on submission bars multiple proposals by a PI to a given program element.” However that same line was also in ROSES 24 (page SoS-8). And of course in ROSES 24 proposers were not prohibited from submitting more than one proposal to most individual elements (e.g., SSW). So is it correct to conclude that the above line is NOT a general prohibition that applies to all program elements, but only to those that specifically prohibit multiple submissions in their individual call (e.g., B.2)?
13 Upvotes: A 5 page limit strongly favors conventional research over novel approaches. How will new ideas be given a fair shake?
11 Upvotes: Does NASA intend to solicit PRISM in ROSES-2025? Is it contingent on a funding increase above that of the President’s Budget Request?
11 Upvotes: Exobiology seems to have been removed. Where should projects that are in this area be sent to?
11 Upvotes: Will the new (and highly truncated) 5-page proposal format continue to be used moving forward, or is this a temporary change?
11 Upvotes: Can PSD provide the new rubric reviewers will use to evaluate 5-pg S3 proposals?
10 Upvotes: Will the priorities (section 1.1) in C2 SSS equate to a disproportionately higher amount of selections in those topics?
9 Upvotes: Regarding the “triage” process that SSS will use to review proposals, will the “independent reviews” be from external reviewers or from individual panelists themselves?
9 Upvotes: Can proposals substantially use data from missions w/active Guest Observer programs (e.g.,HST) or do archival research?
7 Upvotes: Are PIs allowed to submit 1 proposal to SSS program or can they submit 1 proposal to the three priorities listed in the ROSES-25?
7 Upvotes: Aside from budget, what was the rationale for not soliciting MATISSE and PICASSO in ROSES-25?
7 Upvotes: The PBR (not the beer) outlines a 25% cut to NASA to be transferred to ICE and Defense. While this is “dynamic” enough, SSS represents a 70% cut to the 2024 budgets of all those programs it replaced. Why?
6 Upvotes: Will selections in C2 SSS reflect the proportions of topics selected in previous years for the programs now covered by SSS?
6 Upvotes: For an individualized call like the Artemis 3 PSP, can a PI list specific programs / missions / prior training they have been a part of, or should that be avoided to follow DAPR rules?
5 Upvotes: What is the review process after the non-anonymized materials are provided? Will that go back to the panel?
4 Upvotes: What happens if congress passes a budget with less severe cuts but the executive branch uses “rescissions” to override it?
3 Upvotes: Is NASA going to use multi-year funding obligations as a strategy to reduce new award numbers like the NIH is doing?
3 Upvotes: Section 3.3 of C.1 contains restrictions for individuals that are “associated” with active mission teams. What counts as “associated? Could individuals not currently funded by a mission count as “associated”?
3 Upvotes: Section 3.3 of C.1 restricts activities that are “within the scope of a mission.” What documents should be referred to do define the scope of the mission for purposes of this section?
3 Upvotes: Will review panels be able to see which budget bucket (S/M/L) the proposal is in?
3 Upvotes: What should we expect to be the indirect rate to be and can we expect that it will not be changed during the lifetime of a grant?
2 Upvotes: Can a more granular breakdown of changes from year-to-year be included with each ROSES release? I.e. funds, page numbers etc.
2 Upvotes: Is the prohibition on transfer of funds to other government agencies expected to grow to apply to mission IAAs as well?
2 Upvotes: S3 says conops not allowed (presumably PSTAR) but says “tools development” is. Props abt mission-relevant techniques allowed?
2 Upvotes: How does removing the ability for non-NASA federal employees to receive funding on NASA proposals “encourage collaborations?
2 Upvotes: Comment: Thank you so much for working to respond to this dynamic environment and finding a way to still provide ROSES25!
1 Upvotes: What’s difference between Near Space Studies and Deep Space Network? Does any of our planet/s rotates clock wise and anti clock wise?
1 Upvotes: What is President George W Bush’s NASA New Millenium Program? What’s Artemis Accord?
1 Upvotes: When will the selections for Emerging Worlds 2024 be posted?
1 Upvotes: Can the 5-page STM proposals to SSS be submitted by PIs? Or do they require submission by AORs?
1 Upvotes: Is there any estimate of the selection rate if the PBR is final?
