A22F:
Nanosatellite Atmospheric Sensors I

Session ID#: 2058

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Boon Lim, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Co-conveners:  William J Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, Albin John Gasiewski, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Boon Lim, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
Index Terms:

0350 Pressure, density, and temperature [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Radiometer Atmospheric Cubesat Experiment (30852)
Boon Lim1, Maxwell Bryk1, Jessica Clark1, Kenneth Donahue1, Raymond Ellyin1, Sidharth Misra1, Andrew Romero-Wolf1, Shannon Statham1, Joel Steinkraus2, Subhanshu Gupta3, Andrew Fear3, Parker Francis3, Henri Kjellberg3 and Karl McDonald3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Icecube: Spaceflight Validation of an 874-GHz Submillimeter Wave Radiometer for Ice Cloud Remote Sensing (Invited) (5613)
Dong Liang Wu, PhD1, Jaime Esper1, Negar Ehsan1, Jeffrey R Piepmeier2 and Paul Racette1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) CubeSat Constellation (Invited) (6646)
Steven C Reising1, Gaier Todd2, Sharmila Padmanabhan3, Shannon Thomas Brown4, Boon Lim3, Christian Kummerow5, V Chandrasekar6, Susan C van den Heever7, Tristan S L'Ecuyer8, Zhengzhao Johnny Luo9, Ziad S Haddad10, Stephen J Munchak11, Christopher S Ruf12, Greg Berg13, Timothy Koch3, Sid Ahmed Boukabara14 and TEMPEST Program, (1)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (8)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (9)City College of New York, New York, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (13)Boeing Company Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach, CA, United States, (14)NOAA NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, United States
The RAVAN CubeSat mission: Progress toward a new measurement of Earth outgoing radiation (30721)
William H Swartz1, Lars P Dyrud2, Steven R Lorentz3, Dong Liang Wu, PhD4, Warren J Wiscombe5, Stergios Papadakis6, Philip M. Huang1, Allan W Smith3 and David Deglau6, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)L-1 Standards and Technology, Inc., Manassas, VA, United States, (4)Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration, Laurel, MD, United States
Development of a High Resolution Passive Microwave 3U Cubesat for High Resolution Temperature Sounding and Imaging at 118 GHz (11581)
Brian T Sanders1, Albin John Gasiewski2, David W Gallaher3, Lavanya Periasamy1, Glenda Alvarenga1, Ron Weaver4 and Scambos Ted5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Recent Results from the MicroMAS Global Environmental MonitoringNanosatellite Mission (31347)
William J Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States and Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Wincs/Swats Initial on-Orbit Performance Results (7513)
Andrew C Nicholas, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, United States, Federico A Herrero, Space Systems Research Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States, Andrew W Stephan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States and Theodore T Finne, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States
PC/CIC: A Tandem 3U CubeSat Mission for Global Cloud Ice Mass Measurement (20257)
Albin John Gasiewski1, Brian T Sanders2, David W Gallaher3, Lavanya Periasamy2, Glenda Alvarenga2, Scambos Ted4, Ron Weaver5, K Franklin Evans2, Andrew Heymsfield6, Peter Pilewskie7 and Stefan A Buehler8, (1)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration Mission (MiRaTA): Advancing Weather Remote Sensing with Nanosatellites (20690)
Kerri Cahoy1, William J Blackwell2, Rebecca L Bishop3, Neal Erickson4, Chad S Fish5, Tim L. Neilsen6, Erik M Stromberg6, James Bardeen3, Pratik Dave2, Anne Marinan7, Weston Marlow2, Ryan Kingsbury8, Andrew Kennedy8, James M Byrne8, Eric Peters8, Gregory Allen2, Dennis Burianek2, Franz Busse2, David Elliott2, Christopher Galbraith2, Vincent Vincent Leslie2, Idahosa Osaretin2, Michael Shields2, Erik Thompson2, David Toher2 and Michael DiLiberto2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (3)Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (5)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates LLC, Louisville, CO, United States, (6)Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT, United States, (7)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States
The strengths of constellation missions when exploring our atmosphere (Invited) (5816)
Aaron J Ridley, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Christopher S Ruf, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Derek J Posselt, University of California, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States, Randy Rose, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States and Damen Provost, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States