F4  Nanosatellites for Remote Sensing

Friday, January 8  08:20-12:00  Room 150

Session Chairs:  William Blackwell, Steven Reising, Todd Gaier

08:20  F4-1  DEVELOPMENT OF THE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER TECHNOLOGY ACCELERATION (MIRATA) CUBESAT FOR ALL-WEATHER ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING

Kerri L. Cahoy*1, William J. Blackwell2, Anne D. Marinan1

1AeroAstro, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA


08:40  F4-2  ADVANCED CUBESAT CAPABILITIES FOR PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE

William Blackwell*

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA


09:00  F4-3  THE RAVAN CUBESAT MISSION: PROGRESS TOWARD A NEW MEASUREMENT OF EARTH OUTGOING RADIATION

William H. Swartz*1, Lars P. Dyrud2, Steven R. Lorentz3, Dong L. Wu4, Philip M. Huang1, Stergios J. Papadakis1, Allan W. Smith3, David M. Deglau1, Warren J. Wiscombe4

1JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
2OmniEarth, Arlington, VA
3L-1 Standards and Technology, New Windsor, MD
4NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD


09:20  F4-4  MICROWAVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER ON CUBESAT (MASC) PROTOTYPE

Sharmila Padmanabhan*, Shannon Brown, Pekka Kangaslahti, Robert Stachnik, Damon Russell, Richard Cofield, Boon Lim

JPL, Pasadena, CA


09:40  F4-5  TEMPORAL EXPERIMENT FOR STORMS AND TROPICAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION (TEMPEST-D): RISK REDUCTION FOR 6U-CLASS CONSTELLATION MEASUREMENTS

Steven C. Reising*1, Todd C. Gaier2, Christian D. Kummerow1, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Boon H. Lim2, Shannon T. Brown2, Chandrasekar V. Chandra1

1Microwave Systems Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA


10:20  F4-6  CYGNSS: NEW SATELLITE MISSION TO PROBE OCEAN WAVES AND WINDS

Valery Zavorotny*1, Scott Gleason2, Christopher Ruff3, Maria-Paola Clarizia3, Randy Rose2, John Scherrer2, Paul Chang4, Zorana Jelenak4

1Physical Sciences Division, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO
2Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO
3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
4NOAA/NESDIS/StAR, College Park, MD


10:40  F4-7  TROPOSPHERIC WATER AND CLOUD ICE (TWICE) INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT FOR 6U CUBESAT DEPLOYMENT: BACK-END ELECTRONIC DESIGN AND TESTING

Mehmet Ogut*1, Xavier Bosch-Lluis1, Steven C. Reising1, Pekka Kangaslahti2, Erich Schlecht2, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Richard Cofield2, Nacer Chahat2, Jonathan Jiang2, Shannon T. Brown2, William R. Deal3, Alex Zamora3, Kevin Leong3, Sean Shih3, Gerry Mei3

1Microwave Systems Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,CA
3Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA


11:00  F4-8  PRECISION DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND MANUFACTURING OF QUASI-OPTIC LENS/REFLECTOR ANTENNA SYSTEMS FOR CUBESAT MMW/SMMW RADIOMETERS

Lavanya Periasamy*, Albin J. Gasiewski

Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado


11:20  F4-9  NWP-BASED SIMULATION OF MICROWAVE IMAGING CUBESAT FLEET OBSERVATIONS

Kun Zhang*, Albin J. Gasiewski

Dept. of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO


11:40  F4-10  GPS RADIO OCCULTATION ON A CUBESAT PLATFORM

Anne Marinan*1, Kerri Cahoy1,2

1AeroAstro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA