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Sitting here in the never-ending Zoom meeting hellscape that work has become, I took a few minutes off to mull on something. About flagship missions and our ability to fund them, and how we can build the next great observatories. This thread is the result. (1/ )
First, let’s note we are at a very interesting time, and no, I don’t mean COVID. At this moment, four things are roughly coincident: 1) Chandra's 20th, 2) Hubble's 30th, 3) Spitzer's end, and 4) Astro2020 (2/)
Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer constitute 3/4 of NASA's "Great Observatories" (Compton was the 4th, and its mission ended in 2000). By far, the impact of these missions together exceeds the sum of the parts (3/)
Yesterday was an incredible day for publications in my research groups. One big surprise to me was that my own first, first-authored paper made its way onto arxiv last night! I’m so excited to share this work with all of you. #AAS235 arxiv.org/pdf/2001.01338…
One of the most well known potentially habitable exoplanets, TRAPPIST-1e, has been the subject of transit modeling simulations with JWST for the last few years. Thanks to the findings of these works, it was determined that only CO2 may be detected if the planet is “Earth-like”. 
Because of this reality, I wanted to know what it would take for an observatory to expand their detections beyond CO2 to include signatures of habitability/life such as CH4, H2O, O2, O3, and N2.
