Abstract
NASA needs to put the “living” back into the Living With a Star (LWS) program by moving ahead with the Ionosphere‐Thermosphere Storm Probes and Imager. For the U.S. taxpayer and the other 6.5 billion inhabitants of the Earth, there are significant space weather impacts driven by the Sun and mediated by the magnetosphere and the ionosphere‐thermosphere systems. On the basis of these impacts, Congress approved the LWS program and the National Academy Decadal Survey of Solar and Space Physics recommended that the Ionosphere‐Thermosphere Storm Probes (ITSP) and the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) be implemented following the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This synergistic sequence of missions was designed to overlap in order to advance our understanding and subsequently enable specification and forecasting. Now a new wave of budgetary constraints demands that NASA reconsider the content and timing of the LWS missions.
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