Data management challenges and solutions

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The Roman Space Telescope: Data Management Challenges & Solutions
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on track for launch in late 2026. The wide-field instrument (WFI) is capable of surveying the sky in the near-infrared more than 1000 times faster than Hubble, with similar spatial resolution. Key science goals include conducting a census of exoplanets via gravitational microlensing and constraining cosmology via weak lensing, baryon acoustic oscillations and high-redshift supernovae. The same observations will be useful for a wide range of astrophysics. An additional 25% of the time in core 5-year mission will be allocated through peer review. Among the key data-management challenges are the high data volume, stringent calibration requirements, a distributed ground system, the need to produce high-level products, and the desire to offer the community computational resources with high-bandwidth access to the data products.

SPHEREx and the VO at IRSA

IRSA's goal in developing the SPHEREx archive is to use VO protocols and models as much as possible. While this has simplified some things, it's not without challenges - we'll discuss what went well and what's been a struggle.

The COSI gamma-ray telescope: Data management challenges

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite mission scheduled for launch in 2027. COSI is a wide-field Compton telescope designed to survey the entire gamma-ray sky at 0.2-5 MeV with excellent energy resolution, providing powerful observations of sources with gamma-ray emission lines. In this presentation, we will present an overview of the COSI mission, an introduction to some of the major data challenges with a modern Compton telescope, and a discussion of the plan to align with data standards.