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Spaceflight instrument mass and size have a large impact on mission planning. NASA has been investing in a new generation of Earth-observing instruments through the Instrument Incubator Program. Several instruments and their improvements are described. A companion paper examines the mission planning implications.

This paper describes the development of an information management tool, called SYNERGE, to provide a low‐cost, desktop‐based, generalized user interface to a project information base. SYNERGE enables the management and analysis of interrelated requirements, tests, system elements, organizations, activities, resources, and other types of system engineering information, thus integrating a variety of activities and facilitating analysis of impacts of changes to the baseline. By making the project information base accessible to all process participants, SYNERGE will encourage an institutional transition to the more extensive use of automation, including high‐capability COTS products.