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Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD), Principal Investigator Richard Eastes, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla. GOLD will increase our understanding of the temperature and composition in the ionosphere; and provide understanding of the global scale response of the Earth’s thermosphere and ionosphere. To learn more, please visit: http://appel.nasa.gov/knowledge-sharing/pi-team-masters-forums/

The primary responsibility of the Explorer Program Office is to ensure Explorer missions are successful in achieving their science objectives. We do this by working with the PI and the project team to manage the cost, schedule, and technical elements of the project and by guiding them through the various processes that make up the […]

Lynn M. Kistler is the principal investigator for the ion mass spectrum analyzer for the SCOPE mission. She is a professor in the department of physics and the Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire. Her research focuses on using composition measurements as a tool for understanding the dynamics of the magnetosphere and […]

Critical resources also include operational timeline and relationships (teaming). Timeline here differs from development schedule although considerations of adequate timeline for post-launch activities have design and implementation trade-space implications. Team building includes many items, such as establishing effective communication paths and lines of authority, matching skills to tasks, delegating appropriately, and providing leadership. A common […]

John Kohl is a senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. He is the principal investigator for the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), and he was the principal investigator for the Ultraviolet Coronal Spectrometer on Spartan 201, a shuttle-deployed and -retrieved satellite that carried out four successful two-day flights. […]

The development and implementation of a satellite mission in today’s world brings with it many problems, and it is often the case that many of these are unplanned and unforeseen. Consequently, the success of the mission depends heavily on the degree of preparation and anticipation of problems that has occurred going into the development. Despite […]

Pietro N. Bernasconi is a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and is currently the observatory principal investigator (PI) and mission scientist of the Stratospheric TeraHertz Observatory balloon program (STO). He obtained a doctorate in natural sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1997. He has worked at […]

Mark Swain is one of the pioneers for methods for spectroscopic detection of molecules in exoplanet atmospheres and he led the discovery team that made the first detection of methane and carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere. He has played a key role in developing calibration methods for exoplanet spectroscopy for Hubble, Spitzer, and ground-based […]

Thomas J. Immel is an associate research physicist at the Space Sciences Laboratory at University of California– Berkeley (UCB). He is the principal investigator for the Ionospheric Connection Explorer mission. Currently, he is the project manager for UCB’s National Science Foundation CubeSat for Ions, Neutrals, Electrons, and Magnetic fields mission, to be launched in June […]