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Smallsat Constellations at Earth and Beyond: Future Mission Concepts and Enabling Technologies I

Thursday, 17 December 2020: 05:30-06:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Pamela Millar, NASA Headquarters, ESTO, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Chairs:  Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
OSPA Liaison:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States
05:30
Janus: A NASA SIMPLEx mission to explore two NEO Binary Asteroids (Invited) (671064)
Daniel Jay Scheeres1, Jay McMahon2, Beau Bierhaus3, Joshua Wood4, Lance Benner5, Christine M Hartzell6, Paul Ottinger Hayne7, Robert Jedicke8, Lucille Le Corre9, Shantanu Naidu10, Petr Pravec11, Michael A Ravine12, Kya Sorli13 and Alex Meyer1, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Lockheed Martin, Denver, CO, United States, (4)Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, United States, (5)JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (7)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, (9)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)University of California, LA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (11)Fricˇova, Ondrˇejov, Czech Republic, (12)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (13)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
05:34
ESCAPADE: Unraveling Cause and Effect in Mars' Unique Hybrid Magnetosphere with Class D Smallsats (Invited) (688060)
Robert J Lillis1, Shannon Curry1, David W Curtis2, Ellen Taylor3, Janet G Luhmann4, Roberto Livi1, Phyllis L Whittlesey1, Yingjuan Ma5, Christopher T Russell6, Aroh Barjatya7, Davin E Larson8, Christopher M Fowler9, Shaosui Xu1, Jeffrey Parker10, Ronan Modolo11, David Brain12, Edward Thiemann13, Nathan Parrish14, Sasha Courtade3, Yuki Harada15 and Kathleen Gwen Hanley1, (1)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physical Sciences Department, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (8)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (9)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Advanced Space, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France, (12)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)Advanced Space LLC, Boulder, United States, (15)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
05:38
Using Small-Sats, Cube-Sats and Out-of-the-Box Ideas to Address Major NASA Science Goals (Invited) (705763)
Allison N Jaynes, University of Iowa, Physics & Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States
05:42
The role of timing and location knowledge in enabling the SunRISE mission (Invited) (736979)
Justin Christophe Kasper1, Joseph Lazio2, James P Lux3, Andrew Romero-Wolf2, Alexander Michael Hegedus4 and The SunRISE Mission Team, (1)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
05:46
The Future of CubeSat Constellations of Microwave Atmospheric Sounders: Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) Mission (Invited) (719984)
Steven C Reising1, Gaier Todd2, Shannon Thomas Brown2, Christian Kummerow3, Wesley K Berg3, V. Chandrasekar4, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Boon Lim2, Cate Heneghan2, Richard Schulte3, Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan5, Yuriy Goncharenko1, Matthew Pallas6, Doug Laczkowski6, Nancy Gaytan6 and Austin Bullard6, (1)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Fort Collins, United States, (6)Blue Canyon Technologies, Boulder, CO, United States
05:50
Capella's sub-meter X-band SAR constellation (Invited) (758411)
Payam Banazadeh, San Francisco, California, United States
05:54
Discussion
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