astrophysicist (solar/stellar) + aerospace engineer @JHUAPL, formerly @LASPatCU and @NASA | principal investigator of @SunCETcubesat for @NASASun
Maryland, USA
Joined February 2012
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@NASA selected @SunCETcubesat for spaceflight!
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I am elated and grateful. #PI_Daily
Video summary of the mission here, and thread below.
If you want more detail, see press release at the end and/or feel free to @ me!
#scicomm
You have a say in how we color @SunCETcubesat extreme UV images! Our bandpass is a new one that encompasses two of the traditional ones. Should we just pick one of the colormaps? Should we be inspired by sunsets? Vote for as many as you like at
suncet.github.io/suncet_inst…
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"It’s Official: China Tops U.S. in R&D Spending" by @MattHourihan aau.edu/newsroom/leading-res…
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As humans return to the Moon with @NASAArtemis II, APL is working on what’s next. Teams across the Lab are advancing cislunar infrastructure & technologies like Comms & PNT, autonomous systems, and surface power, to sustain future missions beyond Earth. jhuapl.link/LSII
Liftoff.
The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.
Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.
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Spacecraft integration has begun! We had the whole thing plugged together in a flatsat configuration to do a bunch of testing before it gets much harder to fix things post-integrate. So this video shows us tearing that down and starting prep to put everything inside the structure
Nice! #heliophysics is now officially in the @MerriamWebster dictionary
merriam-webster.com/dictiona…
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⚡ The @NSF Inouye Solar Telescope completed its largest single-day data transfer: 41.5TB in under 4 hours from Maui ➡️ Boulder. Check out the infographics to see the numbers in action! Congrats to our HLS, Data Center, and NSO-Inouye teams 👏Full story: nso.edu/blog/data-at-record-…
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🚨 Big news! The @NSF National Solar Observatory will design ngGONG, the Next-Generation Solar Observing Network, with NSF funding! This global network would advance solar science & space-weather forecasting, replacing the long-serving GONG stations. nso.edu/press-release/nso-re…
Has anybody used AWS Ground Station for downlinks before? We're going to use it for SunCET CubeSat but it's our first time and just looking for someone we know to field questions when they arise, if willing and able.
Here's what the President's Budget Request does to the fleet of observations that has _literally taken us decades to build_ that monitors the explosive Sun and how solar storms impact Earth and other planetary bodies.
It is really depressing that all of the excitement from the forward-looking Decadal -- a Congressionally-mandated major planning report we expend tremendous community effort preparing once per decade -- has been usurped by the decimation the administration is proposing.
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What’s really at stake if NASA’s science budget gets slashed and entire science missions are canceled?
We asked the scientists leading those missions, and their stories reveal what we all stand to lose.
Here’s what they told us: planetary.org/articles/scien…
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This has never happened before. Every living former NASA Science Chief united to sign a joint letter to Congress, urging them to reject a devastating 47% cut to NASA’s science budget.
Led by our board member and former NASA Associate Administrator of Science John Grunsfeld, we helped bring this letter to life. Read the full letter here ⬇️ planetary.org/press-releases…
