Wallops Island Regional Alliance Meeting

April 14, 2015

Chris ScoleseDirector, Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA GSFC Installations• GSFC Greenbelt, MD• GSFC Wallops Flight Facility, VA• IV&V Facility, WV• Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NY• Ground Stations at White Sands Complex, NM

GreenbeltCampus

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Independent Verification and Validation Facility

Wallops Flight Facility

White Sands Complex

Sounding RocketsBalloon Program

Operation Ice Bridge

HS3

Antares

Wallops Flight Facility

LDSD

Balloon Program

Sounding Rocket Program

TDRS - M MAVEN

Curosity MSL/SAM

HS3

Suborbital Missions JWST (ISIM) Testing

Recent Accomplishments

GPM

SMAPDSCOVR 2/11/2015 MMS

Cygnus

Humanity’s Big Questions

Translate the knowledge and technologies derived from these areas of exploration to practical applications today.

How Do We Survive & Thrive?

GPM

GOES-R

ICESat-2

JPSS

IceBridge

IceBridge

Aircraft missions that have led to the development of Earth Science spacecraft instruments

• Aircraft flights in the 80’s and 90’s led to the GSFC laser altimetry

design of the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA on the Mars

Global Surveyor and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA).

• Laser altimetry by the WFF Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM)

started to map the height of the ice caps operationally in 1993 and

has since then provided the data set that first showed the loss of

the Greenland ice mass and is the primary instrument for

Operation IceBridge. ATM was also critical for the development

of ICESat and will be a key instrument for ICESat-2 cal/val efforts.

The 20+ year ATM Greenland time series is baseline data set for

all cryospheric missions and science efforts.

• Aircraft flights of the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) MASTER,

AirMISR and MOPITT instruments lead to the MODIS, MOPITT

and MISR instruments on the EOS- Terra and Aqua satellites.

• The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar on the CALIPSO/CloudSat satellite was

demonstrated first on NASA aircraft flights.

MGS

ICESat/OIB

CALIPSO/CLoudSat

Tiamat—first sounding rocket research flight (1945)

BAT-4—AirSTAR UAS test (April 13)

Wallops Flight FacilityGlobal Hawk operations—HS3

Aerodynamic flight research

Cubesat Development

Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector

(CuPID) CubeSat

6U, CubeSat Dellingr

Firefly

Why Are We Here?

MAVEN

OSIRIS-REx

Curiosity/MSL

MAVEN & Curiosity Results

What is Out There?

JWST

TESS

NICER

ASTRO-H

Swift

WFF-managed Balloon missions have contributed in essential ways to GSFC scientific spacecraft missions.

• Over 30 spacecraft instrument in the last 4 decades first flew on balloons.

• Balloon flights of the differential radiometer and Far IR spectrum of the CMB laid the critical ground work for the design of instruments for COBE and WMAP.

• Detectors on the RHESSI mission were first developed and demonstrated on balloon-borne instruments.

• The scintillating fiber trajectory detector on the ACE Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer was demonstrated first in a balloon flight.

• On the EOS-Aura satellite to study the atmosphere's chemistry and dynamics, the MLS, TES, and HIRDLS instruments all trace their heritage to instruments that first flew on balloons.

• GSFC In-Focus Balloon flights of the cadmium-zinc-telluride CZT array led to the design the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) instrument.

COBE

RHESSI

WMAP

Aura

JWST Video

Little Joe and Mercury crew capsule testing

Wallops Flight Facility

Max Launch Abort System test—July 2009

Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft integration

Partners ISS

NICER

CATS

GEDI

CREAM

Future Opportunities

AFTA

EVI Competition

Discovery AOs

Ammonia Leak Locator Tool on ISS

Asteroid Retrieval Mission

ATLAST

Raven demonstration on ISS

SLS

EUROPA

PACE

Future Land Imaging

Enabling the science of 2035+ at GSFC

20152018

+

2020-2026

Fly PACE, WFIRST,

Earth Lidar observatory,

Mars recon/telesat,

continue Landsat, next-gen

GRACE, new EVM’s,

SpaceCubes

2035

Science

Vision

Leverage JWST, fly

MMS, OSIRIS, MOMA

(ExoMars), and LDCM, plus GEDI,

Suomi, JPSS

Legacy of HST, EOS, Landsat,

LRO, GPM, EO-1, etc

Start path for next gen ES with NOAA,

USGS

EarthSensorWebs(REMS)

In situ organic analysis

Labs to targets (not all SR)

GiantApertures and Formations

New Sensor techniques

QE

Planetary probes

TODAY:

2014 Agency Honor Award Selections

Outstanding Leadership Medal John Hickman - Code 810Steven Kremer - Code 840

Exceptional Achievement Medal Frank Bellinger - Code 800 Douglas Voss - Code 840

Exceptional Service MedalJohn Dickerson - Code 840David Stuchlik - Code 820Gregory Waters - Code 569

Exceptional Public Service MedalJoseph Jimmerson/LIT and Associates, Inc. - Code 840

Group Achievement Award 2013 Wallops Launch Support Team Code 800 LDSD Balloon Launch Tower Development Team Code 820 NASA Sounding rockets Program (NSRP) Team Code 810 Wallops Communications Branch Code 763Wallops CubeSat Ground Station Support Team Code 453Wallops Office of Communications Team Code 130

2014 Robert H. Goddard Award Recipients Engineering (Individual)Scott Hesh - Code 569Jeffrey Dorman - Code 589

Engineering (Team)Wallops Arc-Second Pointer Team Code 598

WFF Awards and Recognition

Engineering (Team) Cont.Goddard Wallops Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentine(HS3) Capabilities Development Team Code 830Low Density Supersonic Decelerators (LDSD)Project Team Code 840

New Opportunities Captured (Team)Wallops Field Carrier Landing Practice Team Code 840

Professional Administrative (Individual)Teena Haugh - Code 201 Bloxom, Julie - Code 810

Science (Team)GPM Ground Validation Team Code 610 - Petersen, Walter

Secretarial/Clerical (Individual)Sandra Banks - Code 610

Customer Service (Team)GSFC's WFF Hurrican and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3)Pilot and Ground Crew Operations Team Code 830NASA's GSFC WFF C130 Aircraft Arctic RadiationIceBridge Sea & Ice Experiment (ARISE) Mission Team Code 830

Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity (Individual)Sheryl Eni - Code 271Benjamin Cervantes - Code 589Thomas Pittman - Code 800

Mission & Enabling Support (Individual)Aaron Darby - Code 763 Hall, Brian - Code 840

Safety (Individual)John Hickman - Code 810

Dr. Joyce L. Winterton received the “Eastern Shore Community College’s Virginia Community College System Chancellor’s Award in the Career Pathways category” on November 3, 2014

Virginia Space Grant and NASA Wallops Flight Facility staff accept the Programs That Work award for the Virginia Space Coast (VSC) Scholars program. The VSC Scholars program is done in partnership with NASA Wallops.

Wallops Safety Award presented to the Antares Volunteer Team

Wallops Awards Ceremony December 5, 2014

Wallops Krieger Award presented to the LDSD Team

2014 Robert H. Goddard Award Ceremony – April 8, 2015

Ms. Amy Davis was named the Eastern Shore Community (ESSC) 2015 Distinguished Alumni on March 27, 2015

WFF Awards and Recognition