Wallops Island Regional Alliance Meeting
April 14, 2015
Chris ScoleseDirector, Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA GSFC Installations• GSFC Greenbelt, MD• GSFC Wallops Flight Facility, VA• IV&V Facility, WV• Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NY• Ground Stations at White Sands Complex, NM
GreenbeltCampus
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Independent Verification and Validation Facility
Wallops Flight Facility
White Sands Complex
TDRS - M MAVEN
Curosity MSL/SAM
HS3
Suborbital Missions JWST (ISIM) Testing
Recent Accomplishments
GPM
SMAPDSCOVR 2/11/2015 MMS
Cygnus
Humanity’s Big Questions
Translate the knowledge and technologies derived from these areas of exploration to practical applications today.
Aircraft missions that have led to the development of Earth Science spacecraft instruments
• Aircraft flights in the 80’s and 90’s led to the GSFC laser altimetry
design of the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA on the Mars
Global Surveyor and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA).
• Laser altimetry by the WFF Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM)
started to map the height of the ice caps operationally in 1993 and
has since then provided the data set that first showed the loss of
the Greenland ice mass and is the primary instrument for
Operation IceBridge. ATM was also critical for the development
of ICESat and will be a key instrument for ICESat-2 cal/val efforts.
The 20+ year ATM Greenland time series is baseline data set for
all cryospheric missions and science efforts.
• Aircraft flights of the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) MASTER,
AirMISR and MOPITT instruments lead to the MODIS, MOPITT
and MISR instruments on the EOS- Terra and Aqua satellites.
• The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar on the CALIPSO/CloudSat satellite was
demonstrated first on NASA aircraft flights.
MGS
ICESat/OIB
CALIPSO/CLoudSat
Tiamat—first sounding rocket research flight (1945)
BAT-4—AirSTAR UAS test (April 13)
Wallops Flight FacilityGlobal Hawk operations—HS3
Aerodynamic flight research
Swift
WFF-managed Balloon missions have contributed in essential ways to GSFC scientific spacecraft missions.
• Over 30 spacecraft instrument in the last 4 decades first flew on balloons.
• Balloon flights of the differential radiometer and Far IR spectrum of the CMB laid the critical ground work for the design of instruments for COBE and WMAP.
• Detectors on the RHESSI mission were first developed and demonstrated on balloon-borne instruments.
• The scintillating fiber trajectory detector on the ACE Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer was demonstrated first in a balloon flight.
• On the EOS-Aura satellite to study the atmosphere's chemistry and dynamics, the MLS, TES, and HIRDLS instruments all trace their heritage to instruments that first flew on balloons.
• GSFC In-Focus Balloon flights of the cadmium-zinc-telluride CZT array led to the design the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) instrument.
COBE
RHESSI
WMAP
Aura
Little Joe and Mercury crew capsule testing
Wallops Flight Facility
Max Launch Abort System test—July 2009
Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft integration
Future Opportunities
AFTA
EVI Competition
Discovery AOs
Ammonia Leak Locator Tool on ISS
Asteroid Retrieval Mission
ATLAST
Raven demonstration on ISS
SLS
EUROPA
PACE
Future Land Imaging
Enabling the science of 2035+ at GSFC
20152018
+
2020-2026
Fly PACE, WFIRST,
Earth Lidar observatory,
Mars recon/telesat,
continue Landsat, next-gen
GRACE, new EVM’s,
SpaceCubes
2035
Science
Vision
Leverage JWST, fly
MMS, OSIRIS, MOMA
(ExoMars), and LDCM, plus GEDI,
Suomi, JPSS
Legacy of HST, EOS, Landsat,
LRO, GPM, EO-1, etc
Start path for next gen ES with NOAA,
USGS
EarthSensorWebs(REMS)
In situ organic analysis
Labs to targets (not all SR)
GiantApertures and Formations
New Sensor techniques
QE
Planetary probes
TODAY:
2014 Agency Honor Award Selections
Outstanding Leadership Medal John Hickman - Code 810Steven Kremer - Code 840
Exceptional Achievement Medal Frank Bellinger - Code 800 Douglas Voss - Code 840
Exceptional Service MedalJohn Dickerson - Code 840David Stuchlik - Code 820Gregory Waters - Code 569
Exceptional Public Service MedalJoseph Jimmerson/LIT and Associates, Inc. - Code 840
Group Achievement Award 2013 Wallops Launch Support Team Code 800 LDSD Balloon Launch Tower Development Team Code 820 NASA Sounding rockets Program (NSRP) Team Code 810 Wallops Communications Branch Code 763Wallops CubeSat Ground Station Support Team Code 453Wallops Office of Communications Team Code 130
2014 Robert H. Goddard Award Recipients Engineering (Individual)Scott Hesh - Code 569Jeffrey Dorman - Code 589
Engineering (Team)Wallops Arc-Second Pointer Team Code 598
WFF Awards and Recognition
Engineering (Team) Cont.Goddard Wallops Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentine(HS3) Capabilities Development Team Code 830Low Density Supersonic Decelerators (LDSD)Project Team Code 840
New Opportunities Captured (Team)Wallops Field Carrier Landing Practice Team Code 840
Professional Administrative (Individual)Teena Haugh - Code 201 Bloxom, Julie - Code 810
Science (Team)GPM Ground Validation Team Code 610 - Petersen, Walter
Secretarial/Clerical (Individual)Sandra Banks - Code 610
Customer Service (Team)GSFC's WFF Hurrican and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3)Pilot and Ground Crew Operations Team Code 830NASA's GSFC WFF C130 Aircraft Arctic RadiationIceBridge Sea & Ice Experiment (ARISE) Mission Team Code 830
Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity (Individual)Sheryl Eni - Code 271Benjamin Cervantes - Code 589Thomas Pittman - Code 800
Mission & Enabling Support (Individual)Aaron Darby - Code 763 Hall, Brian - Code 840
Safety (Individual)John Hickman - Code 810
Dr. Joyce L. Winterton received the “Eastern Shore Community College’s Virginia Community College System Chancellor’s Award in the Career Pathways category” on November 3, 2014
Virginia Space Grant and NASA Wallops Flight Facility staff accept the Programs That Work award for the Virginia Space Coast (VSC) Scholars program. The VSC Scholars program is done in partnership with NASA Wallops.
Wallops Safety Award presented to the Antares Volunteer Team
Wallops Awards Ceremony December 5, 2014
Wallops Krieger Award presented to the LDSD Team
2014 Robert H. Goddard Award Ceremony – April 8, 2015
Ms. Amy Davis was named the Eastern Shore Community (ESSC) 2015 Distinguished Alumni on March 27, 2015
WFF Awards and Recognition
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