The Chandra X-ray Observatory Program conducted a two day semi-annual Engineering review on 11/9-10/21, via Google Meet. The Flight Operations Team technical subsystem engineers presented health and status data for each of the subsystems to Chandra engineers and management at …
Chandra Conducts Periodic Flight Operations Engineering and Program Quarterly Reviews Read More »
A paper entitled “Modeling the Hydrodynamics, Sediment Transport, and Valley Incision of Outlet-Forming Floods From Martian Crater Lakes” by Caleb Fassett (ST13) and Tim Goudge (UT-Austin) was published in JGR-Planets on 11/8/21. The paper examines crater lakes on ancient Mars …
Paper Published in Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets Read More »
Stephen Bongiorno and Steven Ehlert (ST12) recently participated in a Twitter Spaces event held by NASA HQ and hosted by Thomas Zurbuchen discussing recent developments in X-ray astronomy, including the upcoming launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Approximately …
MSFC Scientists Joins NASA HQ on Twitter Spaces to Discuss IXPE Launch Read More »
Laura Duncanson was a key speaker in the “Monitoring the Lungs of the World from Space” panel at COP26. The panel discussed tracking carbon emissions from deforestation rates from space, as well as, how much carbon is being drawn from …
Manil Maskey (ST11/IMPACT) made an invited presentation entitled “Deep Learning for Earth Observation and Remote Sensing” at the Pacific Islands GIS & Remote Sensing User Conference on 11/22/21. The presentation discussed how NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program is …
Presentation at the Pacific Islands GIS & Remote Sensing User Conference Read More »
To support the NASA OSSI outreach effort, the IMPACT team designed and developed a responsive framework to publish OSSI related content. The framework focuses on updating content easily and using only markdown files (instead of the html, which is much …
IMPACT Contributes to the Open-Source Science Initiative (OSSI) Outreach Read More »
During the week of 11/15/21 the Lightning Instrument Package (LIP) was successfully integrated onto the NASA ER-2 aircraft at Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in advance of the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) field campaign. …
Sabrina Savage (ST13) was prominently featured in the American Geophysical Union’s EOS article titled “NASA Prepares its Artemis Gateway to Orbit the Moon.” The article discussed Gateway’s mission as an orbiting lunar space station allowing astronauts to come and go …
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The Brazilian Technical Institute for Aeronautics (ITA) continues Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) testing utilizing the engineering model (EM), currently working on ADCS software (SW) v1.5. They have started the ADCS SW and On-Board Data Handling (OBDH) SW integration …
Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) Update Read More »
On 11/4/21, a Chandra outreach product, “Explore Exoplanets with Chandra X-ray Observatory”, was featured in the NASA STEM Newsletter. This newsletter was sent to 55,348 subscribers and shared via Social Media Tools within NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement which has approximately …
