Exploring the engineering challenges facing space flight missions in heliophysics, translating recent anecdotes to lessons learned, and providing discussion on the strategies and best practices improve future space flight experiments

Williams, Brad

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Exploring the engineering challenges facing space flight missions in heliophysics, translating recent anecdotes to lessons learned, and providing discussion on the strategies and best practices improve future space flight experiments

Session ID#: 252334

Session Description:

To formulate and design groundbreaking space flight missions in heliophysics, engineers and scientists face numerous challenges developing the science enabling systems required by the science requirements and guaranteeing science objectives are met. This session will offer the opportunity from engineers from recent NASA Heliophysics missions to share their perspective and orient the SPA community to the possible challenges awaiting them as they imagine the next generation of heliophysics space flight experiments.Presentations may span a variety of science considerations that may result in expensive and slow engineering solutions. Presentations may provide best practices and practical guidance for scientists when formulating space flight experiments. This session will help to translate and illustrate problems in a way not seen in other science conferences and provide a necessary and unique opportunity for dialogue resulting in reduce barriers between scientist and engineers of the SPA and Heliophysics communities.

Co-Sponsor(s):

SA - SPA-Aeronomy
SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

Index Terms:

2494 Instruments and techniques [IONOSPHERE]
6339 System design [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Primary Convener: Brad Williams, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States

Conveners: Esayas Shume, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, Asal Naseri, Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT, United States and Reinhard H W Friedel, NASA HQ, Lancaster, United States

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Delaney Lee-bellows, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, David Malaspina, University of Colorado, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, United States, Jan Deca, LASP, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Millan Diaz-Aguado, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Robert Ergun, Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, Mingzhe Liu, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Meudon, France and John W Bonnell, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States

In Silico Design of RNA Aptamers Targeting Microgravity-Crystallized Aspartyl-tRNA Synthetase for Neurological Disease Intervention (1933138)

Gaurav Sharma, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Prisha Paliwal, Evergreen Valley High School, San Jose, United States

Lessons Learned During HelioSwarm Mission Development: A Mission Characterizing Turbulence in Space Plasmas (1959188)

Harlan E. Spence, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Kristopher G. Klein, University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States and The HelioSwarm Science and Mission Teams

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Christopher Mark Bert¹, Roman G Gomez¹, Stephen A Fuselier² and David T Young², (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States

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Sanae Kubota, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Kieran Hegarty, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States

The PADRE Mission Blueprint: Accelerating Scientific Instrument Development Through Commercial CubeSat Partnerships (1981033)

Ace Stratton¹, Chris Moeckel¹, Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas¹, Christopher Smith¹, Viktor Mihaylov², Giuseppe Naso² and Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros¹, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)Endurosat, Sofia, Bulgaria

Channel Your Inner Ernest Shackleton: Lessons Learned from the PUNCH SMEX Mission (1994559)

Ronnie Killough¹, Craig DeForest², Matthew Beasley², Jennifer Campbell², Glenn Thomas Laurent³, Steven C Persyn¹, Keith Smith⁴, Kelly Smith⁵, William Wells⁵ and The PUNCH Team, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)SwRI, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States

Multi-Modal Characterization of Foil Topography for Enhanced Particle Transmission in Space Plasma Detectors (2001576)

Rishika Porandla and Jamie Sue Rankin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

Reflections on NASA's "Test Like You Fly" Golden Rule - A Case on End-to-End Testing Using the GOES-R SUVI (2002401)

Jonathan Darnel, CU/CIRES-NOAA/NCEI, Boulder, United States

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SH008
Exploring the engineering challenges facing space flight missions in heliophysics, translating recent anecdotes to lessons learned, and providing discussion on the strategies and best practices improve future space flight experiments