A22F:
Nanosatellite Atmospheric Sensors I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States and Boon Lim, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Inst of Tech, 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 Liaisons:  Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
The Radiometer Atmospheric Cubesat Experiment
Boon Lim1, Maxwell Bryk1, Jessica Clark1, Kenneth Donahue1, Raymond Ellyin1, Sidharth Misra1, Andrew Romero-Wolf1, Shannon Statham1, Joel Steinkraus1, E. Glenn Lightsey2, Andrew Fear2, Parker Francis2, Henri Kjellberg2 and Karl McDonald2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
10:32 AM
 
Icecube: Spaceflight Validation of an 874-GHz Submillimeter Wave Radiometer for Ice Cloud Remote Sensing
Dong Liang Wu, Jaime Esper, Negar Ehsan, Jeffrey R Piepmeier and Paul Racette, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
10:44 AM
 
Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) CubeSat Constellation
Steven C Reising1, Gaier Todd2, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Shannon Thomas Brown2, Boon Lim2, Christian D Kummerow1, Chandrasekar V Chandra1, Susan C van den Heever1, Tristan S L'Ecuyer3, Zhengzhao Johnny Luo4, Ziad S Haddad2, Stephen J Munchak5, Christopher S Ruf6, Greg Berg7, Timothy Koch2 and Sid Ahmed Boukabara8, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (4)City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (7)Boeing Company Huntington Beach, Huntington Beach, CA, United States, (8)NOAA NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, United States
10:56 AM
 
The RAVAN CubeSat mission: Progress toward a new measurement of Earth outgoing radiation
William H. Swartz1, Lars P Dyrud2, Steven R Lorentz3, Dong Liang Wu4, Warren J Wiscombe4, Stergios Papadakis1, Philip M. Huang1, Allan Smith3 and David Deglau1, (1)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Space Exploration, Laurel, MD, United States, (2)Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)L-1 Standards and Technology, New Windsor, MD, United States, (4)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
11:08 AM
 
Development of a High Resolution Passive Microwave 3U Cubesat for High Resolution Temperature Sounding and Imaging at 118 GHz
Brian T Sanders1, Albin John Gasiewski2, David W Gallaher3, Lavanya Periasamy1, Glenda Alvarenga1, Ron Weaver4 and Theodore A Scambos5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
11:20 AM
 
Recent Results from the MicroMAS Global Environmental MonitoringNanosatellite Mission
William J Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States and Kerri Cahoy, Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States
11:32 AM
 
Wincs/Swats Initial on-Orbit Performance Results
Andrew C Nicholas, Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, Federico A Herrero, Space Systems Research Corporation, Glenn Dale, MD, United States, Andrew W Stephan, Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States and Theodore T Finne, US Naval Rsrch Lab-Space Sci, Washington, DC, United States
11:44 AM
 
PC/CIC: A Tandem 3U CubeSat Mission for Global Cloud Ice Mass Measurement
Albin John Gasiewski1, Brian T Sanders2, David W Gallaher3, Lavanya Periasamy2, Glenda Alvarenga2, Theodore A Scambos4, Ron Weaver5, K Franklin Evans2, Andrew Heymsfield6, Peter Pilewskie2 and Stefan A Buehler7, (1)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, 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 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
11:56 AM
 
Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration Mission (MiRaTA): Advancing Weather Remote Sensing with Nanosatellites
Kerri Cahoy1, William J Blackwell2, Rebecca L Bishop3, Neal Erickson4, Chad S Fish5, Tim L. Neilsen6, Erik M Stromberg6, James Bardeen3, Pratik Dave2, Anne Marinan1, Weston Marlow2, Ryan Kingsbury1, Andrew Kennedy1, James M Byrne1, Eric Peters1, Gregory Allen2, Dennis Burianek2, Franz Busse2, David Elliott2, Christopher Galbraith2, R. Vincent Leslie2, Idahosa Osaretin2, Michael Shields2, Erik Thompson2, David Toher2 and Michael DiLiberto2, (1)Massachusetts Inst of Tech, 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, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT, United States
12:08 PM
 
The strengths of constellation missions when exploring our atmosphere
Aaron J Ridley1, Christopher S Ruf2, Derek J Posselt3, Randy Rose4 and Damen Provost3, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, AOSS, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
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