The Astrobiology Explorer (ABE) is a MIDEX mission concept, currently under Concept Phase A study at

Infrared spectroscopy in the 2.5-16 micron range is a principle means by which organic compounds can

shown that organic molecules likely permeate the universe. .... and some classes of molecule display distinctive characteristic infrared bands, ...

Infrared spectroscopy in the 2.5-16 micron range is a principle means by which organic compounds are

High resolution (R greater than 2500) infrared spectroscopy in the 2.5-16 micron range is a principal means by which gas phase and solid organic compounds can be detected and identified in space via their vibrational transitions. Ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne IR spectral studies have already demonstrated that a significant fraction of the carbon in the interstellar medium (ISM) resides in ...

Swift is a NASA gamma-ray burst MIDEX mission that is in development for launch in December 2003. It

Guidelines and requirements for conducting an appropriate safety, ...... provide means of periodic evaluation of the hardware, software and ground support ...

Following a description of the science drive which originated the Swift Mission, this is US NASA MIDEX Mission with the collaboration of Italy and the UK, we will describe the status of the hardware and the observing strategy. The telemetry is carried out...

Nov 21, 1996 ... This mission will explore the Earth's magnetosphere for the first time using coordinated imagery of neutral particles, charged particles, ...

Aug 14, 2011 ... The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) is a NASA MIDEX class mission designed to probe the conditions present in the early ...

Oct 14, 1999 ... The second mission, to be launched in 2004, is the Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer (FAME), a space telescope designed to obtain highly ...

What single aspect of your mission will most engage the general public? The presentation should briefly describe the intrinsic scientific merit, the goals, ...

Communication and Data Service (SCDS formerly Space Operations ... SCDS services include communications, tracking mission operations, flight ...

Mar 1, 1999 ... Abstract: We propose the Advanced Solar Coronal Explorer Mission (ASCE) ... (2) measure the impedance of the mid-altitude coupling region; ...

The drift chamber anode cathode wires are replaced by thin metal traces ... appears feasible within a MIDEX mission cost and weight constraints. ...

A number of space astrometry missions have been proposed and planned for the next decade, as follow up to the highly successful Hipparcos space astrometry mission (1989-1993). These include DIVA, AMEX (SMEX), AMEX (MIDEX), FAME, JASMINE, SIM-PlanetQuest, ...

Spacecraft Structure and deployment mechanisms and structure ...... A MUA and stress corrosion cracking evaluation form shall be submitted for .... Give generic identification of materials used for the component, e.g., 440C steel, PTFE. ...

The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) is the second Medium Class Explorer (MIDEX) mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The main goal of the MAP observatory is to measure the temperature fluctuations, known as anisotropy, of ...

a MIDEX (Intermediate Explorer) mission (Grindlay et al 1995), it was later studied for a much more .... tion for the desired total detector area (8m2) required to ..... the gravitational wave signature. AGN and QSO variability and QPOs ...

The Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) is the third launch in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) a Medium Class Explorers (MIDEX) program. MAP will measure, in greater detail, the cosmic microwave background radiation from an orbit...

Infrared spectroscopy in the 2.5-16 micron range is a principle means by which organic compounds can

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The Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer is a NASA Mid-sized Explorer (MIDEX) with the primary mission of determining the origins of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). It will be the first mission to autonomously respond to newly-discovered GRBs and provide immediate fol...

A number of space astrometry missions have been proposed and planned for the next decade, as follow up to the highly successful Hipparcos space astrometry mission (1989-1993). These include DIVA, AMEX (SMEX), AMEX (MIDEX), FAME, JASMINE, SIM-PlanetQuest, Gaia, and OBSS. The capabilities and current status these ...

Following on the highly successful Hipparcos space astrometry mission of the early 1990s, a number of space astrometry missions have been proposed and planned for the next decade, including DIVA, FAME, Gaia, SIM, AMEX-SMEX, JASMINE, AMEX-MIDEX and OBSS. We will review the astrometric capabilities and status of each of these proposed ...

Project Data Management Plan for the IMAGE Mission ... IMAGE Program Scientist ... 4.0 - IMAGE End-to-End Data Flow ... IMAGE is NASA's first medium- sized Explorer mission (or MIDEX) whose development cost ... The IMAGE mission will operate with a near 100% duty cycle with all ... [IMAGE Orbital Evolution ...

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) MIDEX mission is surveying the entire sky in four infrared bands from 3.4 to 22 micrometers. The WISE instrument consists of a 40 cm telescope, a solid hydrogen cryostat, a scan mirror mechanism, and four 1K x1K infrared detectors. The WISE spacecraft bus provides communication, data handling, and avionics ...

Artillery based explorers (ABEs) are small impact-tolerant rockets that are launched from a platform landed on a celestial body. ABEs follow an approximately ballistic trajectory to a nearby site of scientific interest without an active landing system, and are single use only. Due to their high impact velocities, ABEs carry g-tolerant ...

The S-type asteroid � ordinary chondrite controversy and discoveries by the Hayabusa mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa. T. Hiroi1 , M. Abe2 , K. Kitazato2,3 , S. Abe4 , B. E. Clark5 , S. Sasaki6 , and M-standing controversy concerning the parent bodies of ordinary chondrites and the identity of the S-type asteroids

This paper presents the scientific objectives of the Solar Physics and Interferometry Mission (SPI), describes succinctly the model payload and summarizes mission's issues. Novel instrumentation (interferometry) and clever mission design (small platform on low orbit with high telemetry and dedicated smaller platform on hexapod for ...

The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) was selected as one of two MIDEX programs approved by NASA for a year 2000 launch. Its mission is to acquire, for the first time, a variety of 3-D images of magnetospheric boundaries and plasma distributions in the near-Earth environment. It will investigate their changes due to interactions ...

cosmic microwave background radiation over the entire celestial sphere by executing ... (MIDEX) mission, was launched on June 30, 2001 as a follow-on to the Cosmic ... of the Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR) instrument on COBE and ..... Figure 3: Pre- and Post-Calibration System Angular Momentum Magnitude ...

The Small Explorer (SMEX) program of NASA was initiated during the late 1980s to provide frequent, cost-effective opportunities to carry out sharply focused and relatively space science missions. The SMEX program together with the Mid-size Explorer (MIDEX) program were timely reactions to the increasingly long development times and cost over-runs for a ...

Savvy is a tool from a MDAC subsidiary that is implemented on an. IBM PC/XT. 7.3 .3. Automatic. Programming. The ABE system, being developed by Technowledge ...

The oceanographic community is moving towards unmanned autonomous vehicles to gather data and monitor scientific sites. The mission duration of these vehicles is dependent primarily on the power consumption of the propulsion system, the control system and...

images the spectra onto a single 1024 x 1024 pixel IR FPA [Figure 61. Each arm's camera system is fl2.2 with an effective focal length of 152 mm. ...

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a NASA Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) mission, is surveying the entire sky in four bands from 3.4 to 22 microns with a sensitivity hundreds to hundreds of thousands times better than previous all-sky surveys at these wavelengths. The single WISE instrument consists of a 40 cm three-mirror anastigmatic ...

The Galactic Exoplanet Survey Telescope (GEST) is a proposed MIDEX mission to survey microlensing extrasolar planets of Mars mass and upward. GEST/MIDEX telescope has a relatively small diameter (1m) and a large focal plane ( 2.2 square degrees) filled with 0.6 billion red-sensitive 10 micron pixels with large well-depths (> 100,000 ...

ENA cameras are being readied for flight on the Argentine SAC-B low-altitude mission and the NASA Cassini Saturn orbiter and an upcoming NASA MidEx mission (IMAGE) will be devoted completely to magnetospheric imaging. Computer simulation of ENA images has proved an indispensable tool for both scientific data analysis and ...

As currently envisioned, New Worlds Observer is a NASA flagship class mission, designed to fulfill the Terrestrial Planet Finding mission objectives with a much more flexible architecture than the current TPF design concepts. In this paper, we discuss the scalability of NWO for a variety of telescope sizes and briefly discuss the associated science ...

We are in a very active period in gamma-ray astronomy due primarily to new discoveries from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO). While the near future looks bright with the ESA INTEGRAL mission scheduled for launch in {approx}2001, there are currently no major missions being planned beyond INTEGRAL and none being planned at all by NASA. This paper ...

This paper summarizes some cosmologically interesting measurements which are uniquely possible in the hard X-ray band and presents a mission concept capable of achieving them. The Present Epoch Plus mission will achieve a surface brightness sensitivity of better than 1% per square degree in the 2-10 keV band, and create a catalog of ~10(6) sources. About ...

L-3 Integrated Optical Systems/SSG designed and built the telescope, aft imager, and scanner for the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) under subcontract to Utah State University/Space Dynamics Laboratory. The WISE mission and collection scheme imparted several driving requirements on the telescope and scanner, including the need for low cost implementation, <11 ...

Swift is a NASA MIDEX mission with primary objective to study GRBs and use them to study the Universe. The mission was launched on 20 November 2004 and is detecting {approx}100 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) each year. .For almost every burst there is a prompt (within {approx}90 s) spacecraft repointing to give X-ray and UV/optical ...

The Paired Ionosphere-Thermosphere Orbiters mission is described and discussed. The mission utilizes a pair of orbiting vehicles in eccentric, high-inclination, coplanar orbits. The orbits have arguments of perigee that differ by 180 degrees and are phased such that one vehicle is at perigee (200 km) while the second is at apogee (2000 km). Half an ...

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Hayabusa LIDAR data for all mission phases. Citation, Mukai, T., Abe, S., Barnouin-Jha, O., and Cheng, A., Hayabusa LIDAR V1.0. HAY-A-LIDAR-3-HAYLIDAR-V1. 0. ...

Various concepts of air-breathing engines (ABEs) that could be used for a horizontal take-off and landing SSTO vehicle are investigated. The performances (with respect to thrust and the specific fuel consumption) of turboengines based on various technologies, including a turbojet with and without afterburner (TJ), turboramjet, and air-turbo-ram jet engines are compared. The ...

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a NASA MIDEX mission that is being developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to address several of NASA's Astronomical Search of Origins (ASO) objectives. The WISE instrument, developed by the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), is a 40-cm cryogenically-cooled telescope operating at <17K, with four ...

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a MIDEX mission that is being developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to address several of NASA's Astronomical Search of Origins (ASO) objectives. Space Dynamics Laboratory/ Utah State University is providing the cryogenically cooled infrared instrument. Cooling for the instrument optics and focal ...

Using thermal IR data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission we have calculated diameters for tens of thousands of previously known Main Belt asteroids. Using archival optical observations we have also determined albedos for each object. We present our results from this investigation including: diameter and albedo population statistics for the Main Belt as ...

One of the primary science goals of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), a NASA MIDEX mission to survey the entire sky at four mid-infrared wavelengths, is to identify the coolest (Teff < 500K) brown dwarfs in the solar neighborhood. Study of these ultracool brown dwarfs will allow us to constrain the low-mass mass function and extend our ...

... to NASA PI's on dealing with the need for a fair and open competition. ... As the Bridge Phase is not part of the Phase B/C/D contract, the Bridge Phase does not ... What revision of 311-INST is being used for the MIDEX guidelines? ...

In this study, a chromosomally encoded putative drug efflux pump of the SMR family, named AbeS, from a multidrug-resistant strain of Acinetobacter baumannii was characterized to elucidate its role in antimicrobial resistance. Expression of the cloned abeS gene in hypersensitive Escherichia coli host KAM32 resulted in decreased susceptibility to various ...

... ABSTRACT The Navy's Impact Burial Prediction Model (IMPACT 25) determines the amount ... the water column: earth and body (mine) coordinates. ...

Nov 21, 1996 ... The magnetosphere is the region of space controlled by the Earth's magnetic field and populated with ionized gases called plasma. ...

The Advanced Solar Coronal Explorer (ASCE) is a mid-explorer (MidEx) mission selected, together with other five, for the a Phase A Concept Study in the 1999 round of MidEX proposal. ASCE's spacecraft bus is a SPARTAN 400 reusable carrier deployed in low Earth orbit by the Space Shuttle. ASCE's payload comprises two instrument modules, ...

NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), which launched in December 2009, is currently producing an allsky survey in the mid-infrared (2.8 - 26 microns) with far greater sensitivity and resolution than any previous IR survey mission. The ongoing on-orbit calibration of the instrument is performed at the Wise Science Data Center (WSDC), but several of the calibration ...

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Balloon Program continues to support the scientific community providing enhanced capabilities across a spectrum of balloon related disciplines. Long duration ballooning (LDB) continues to be a prominent element of the program with a mission model of a two flight campaign in each the Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a JPL-managed MIDEX mission to perform an infrared all-sky survey. The WISE instrument, developed by the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL), is a 40-cm cryogenically-cooled telescope which includes a cryogenic scan mirror and four infrared focal planes (2-HgCdTe, 2-Si:As). Cooling the instrument to the desired ...

The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) mission will be the first of the new Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) missions to fly. IMAGE will utilize a combination of ultraviolet and neutral atom imaging instruments plus an RF sounder to map and image the temporal and spatial features of the magnetosphere. The eight ...

In this book Abe Spitzer, one of the crewmen on the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, tells his story of that fateful mission, with historical writer Merle Miller. Spitzer, who was also on a plane accompanying the "Enola Gay" as it bombed Hiroshima, recounts in a conversational style his briefings on the bombings, preparations for the ...

The SPICA Coronagraph 2007, Jun 7th, UC BERKELEY K. Enya1, L. Abe2, S. Tanaka1, T. Nakagawa1, M. Tamura2, H. Kataza1, O. Guyon3, SPICA Working Group ( 1: ISAS/JAXA, 2: NAOJ, 3: NAOJ/SUBARU observatory - Mirror: monolithic mirror of SiC or C/SiC SPICA is the next generation IR telescope mission led by JAXA

THEMIS, NASA�s fifth Medium Class Explorer (MIDEX) mission will monitor the onset and macro-scale evolution of magnetospheric substorms. It is a fleet of 5 small satellites (probes) measuring in situ the magnetospheric particles and fields while a network of 20 ground based observatories (GBOs) monitor auroral brightening over Northern America. Three ...

Constraints are reported on the thermal history of the constituents of the Abee enstatite chondrite. From thermal experiments on laboratory-prepared alloys, and on actual samples of the meteorite, it is concluded that the metal phase of Abee cooled from above 700 C to room temperature in less than ten hours.

This report presents profiles of each states major training activities for Adult Basic English (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and ABE volunteer instructors. These profiles are intended to provide a descriptive overview of major trai...

The Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun (ARTEMIS) mission is a spin-off from NASA's Medium-class Explorer (MIDEX) mission THEMIS, a five identical micro-satellite (hereafter termed "probe") constellation in high altitude Earth-orbit since 17 February 2007. By repositioning ...

WISE is a NASA MIDEX mission to survey the entire sky in four bands from 3 to 25 microns with sensitivity about 500 times greater than the IRAS survey. WISE will find the most luminous galaxies in the universe, find the closest stars to the Sun, and detect most of the main belt asteroids larger than 3 km. WISE launch is scheduled in November, 2009 on a ...

Unlike common hot vent fluids the fluid from the serpentinite hosted vents does not have enough buoyancy to create hydrothermal plume. This would raise two questions. 1. How are microbes as well as larvae of hydrothermal benthos dispersed with fluid? 2. In the exploration point of view, how do we search the fluid source if we detect fluid tail? During the last two expeditions in the Lost City ...

AXTAR is a NASA MIDEX mission concept for X-ray timing of compact objects that combines very large collecting area, broadband spectral coverage, high time resolution, highly flexible scheduling, and an ability to respond promptly to time-critical targets of opportunity. It is optimized for submillisecond timing of bright Galactic X-ray sources in order to ...

We request 4 nights to obtain SOAR/OSIRIS near-IR photometry and spectroscopy follow-up observations of a sample of the extreme ultra- luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) candidates at z > 1 selected using infrared data from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). One of the two primary science goals of WISE, a NASA MIDEX mission currently ...

Brown dwarfs (BDs) provide a natural link between the physics of stars and gas giant planets. Although hundreds of BDs have been discovered to date, a gap of nearly 400 K remains between the coolest BDs known (Teff~500 K) and Jupiter (Teff~128 K). Detailed studies of these cool BDs will allow us to measure the low-mass mass function and extend our studies of low-temperature, high-pressure ...

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) officials with Abe Silverstein (front row, sitting third from left), working out the final reactor licensing issues. ...

Jul 16, 2009 ... NASA's Aeronautics Test Program (ATP) - Abe Silverstein Supersonic Wind Tunnel ( 10x10)

High sensitivity, possibly high resolution, 300 keV to 30 MeV range;. Unlikely before 2020. Will we get a flare MIDEX by 2020? Part 2: Emerging technologies ...

NPP Formulation Phase Studies Underway. RSDO Supports the Midex AO Cycle. RSDO Roadmap Updated! Rapid II On-Ramp Complete ...

The corollary is that you are free to discuss proprietary information during your presentation. I have reserved the small conference room 4K31 for you to ...

49O: Appendix 10 concerns draft international agreements. ... You should provide draft international agreements for all agreements that NASA will ...

May 28, 2002 ... What if they are Civil Servants from a NASA Center or DOD? ... Destructive Physical Analysis by a certified testing facility. ...

May 17, 2002 ... The Point of Contact for all SCDS information for these Phase A studies ... The Data Services provided by SCDS are the ground network (GN), ...

Jun 25, 2002 ... detuning of resonances, EMI/EMC effects, pyrotechnic firing ...... Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC): The condition that prevails when ...

IBM's PC-based printed circuit. MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Tech- layout software nology, Cambridge, MA. PCB. Printed Circuit Board ...

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Mission, led by UCLA PI Dr. Edward L. Wright is a newly selected MIDEX Mission, scheduled to launch in Summer 2008. WISE will conduct a survey of the entire sky in the infrared (3.5 - 23 microns) with far greater sensitivity than any previous program or mission. WISE ...

The Constellation class mission dedicated to the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) is a new NASA Medium Class Explorer (MIDEX) mission to be launched in 2006. Primarily, THEMIS will monitor the onset and evolution of the macroscale substorm instability. Additionally, the production of ...

The Advanced Solar Coronal Explorer (ASCE) is one of five missions selected for a Phase A Concept Study in the current round of proposed MIDEX missions. ASCE's instrument complement is supported by a SPARTAN 400 reusable carrier. The spacecraft is carried into orbit and deployed by the Space Shuttle; at mission's ...