Abstract: Dr. Nancy J. Currie, of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC), Chief Engineer at…
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Monte Carlo Analysis as a Trajectory Design Driver for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Mission
Abstract: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be injected into a highly eccentric Earth orbit…
Prospects for Dating the South Pole-Aitken Basin Through Impact-Melt Rock Samples
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The Electrostatic Environments of Mars: Atmospheric Discharges
Abstract: The electrostatic environment on Mars is controlled by its ever present atmospheric dust. Dust devils…
Environmentally Preferred Coatings for Steel
Abstract: NASA is responsible for a number of facilities and structures with metallic structural and nonstructural…
Spectral Confusion for Cosmological Surveys of Redshifted C II Emission
Abstract: Far-infrared cooling lines are ubiquitous features in the spectra of star-forming galaxies. Surveys of redshifted…
Prototype Imaging Spectrograph for Coronagraphic Exoplanet Studies (PISCES) for WFIRST-AFTA
Abstract: Prototype Imaging Spectrograph for Coronagraphic Exoplanet Studies (PISCES) is a lenslet array based integral field…
Assessment of Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Predictability in CMIP5 Decadal Hindcasts
Abstract: This paper examines the ability of coupled global climate models to predict decadal variability of…
Space Telescope Design to Directly Image the Habitable Zone of Alpha Centauri
Abstract: The scientific interest in directly imaging and identifying Earth-like planets within the Habitable Zone (HZ)…
The CHARIS IFS for high contrast imaging at Subaru
Abstract: The Coronagraphic High Angular Resolution Imaging Spectrograph (CHARIS) is an integral field spectrograph (IFS) being…