The program utilizes instruction modules that can integrate state math and science objectives.

The model payload was used to assess the feasibility of the science objectives and allow for system cost estimates.

Landsat 8 consists of three key mission and science objectives:

Each sensor has unique design features that will enable scientists to meet a wide range of science objectives.

The South Pole Telescope has similar, but complementary, science objectives.

Planners looked for a site that could contribute to a wide variety of possible science objectives.

For a complex mission with multiple science objectives, the relative merits of competing goals are difficult to quantify.

The mission's primary science objectives, as paraphrased from the original proposal fact sheet, were:

The primary science objective was to study detailed spectral features in cosmic sources and their temporal changes.

A secondary science objective would have been be to address the need for long-term atmospheric pressure data from the Martian surface.