F5  Remote Sensing from Small Satellites I

Thursday, January 4  13:20-16:40  Room 155

Session Chairs:  Steven Reising, Albin Gasiewski

13:20  F5-1  WIDE-BAND MILLIMETER AND SUB-MILLIMETER WAVE RADIOMETER INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE TROPOSPHERIC WATER AND CLOUD ICE (TWICE)

Pekka Kangaslahti*1, Erich Schlecht1, Jonathan Jiang1, Anders Skalare1, Joelle Cooperrider1, Richard Cofield1, William Deal2, Alex Zamora2, Kevin Leong2, Steven Reising3, Xavier Bosch1, Mehmet Ogut3, Yuriy Goncharenko3, Braxton Kilmer3

1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
2Northrop Grumman Corporation, Redondo Beach, CA
3Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO


13:40  F5-2  A DIRECT DETECTION RECEIVER AT 660 GHZ

William R. Deal*1, Alexis Zamora1, Kevin Leong1, Gerry Mei1, Pekka Kangaslahti2, Erich Schlecht2, Steven C. Reising3

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


14:00  F5-3  DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF COMMAND AND DATA HANDLING SUBSYSTEM FOR TROPOSPHERIC WATER AND CLOUD ICE (TWICE) 6U-CLASS SATELLITE INSTRUMENT

Mehmet Ogut*1, Xavier Bosch-Lluis2, Steven C. Reising1, Yuriy V. Goncharenko1, Braxton Kilmer1, Pekka Kangaslahti2, Erich Schlecht2, Anders Skalare2, Richard Cofield2, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, William R. Deal3, Alex Zamora3

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


14:20  F5-4  DESIGN, FABRICATION, AND TESTING OF AN AMBIENT CALIBRATION TARGET FOR THE TROPOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR AND CLOUD ICE (TWICE) MILLIMETER- AND SUB-MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETER INSTRUMENT

Braxton Kilmer*1, Steven C. Reising1, Yuriy Goncharenko1, Mehmet Ogut1, Pekka Kangaslahti2, Anders Skalare2, Erich Schlecht2, Richard Cofield2, Joelle Cooperrider2, William Deal3, Alex Zamora3

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


14:40  F5-5  ICECUBE 883-GHZ CLOUD RADIOMETER EXPERIMENT

Dong L. Wu*

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland


15:20  F5-6  TEMPORAL EXPERIMENT FOR STORMS AND TROPICAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION (TEMPEST-D) MISSION FOR GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION FROM CUBESAT CONSTELLATIONS

Steven C. Reising*1, Todd C. Gaier2, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Boon H. Lim2, Cate Heneghan2, Christian D. Kummerow1, V. Chandrasekar1, Wesley Berg1, Shannon T. Brown2, Matthew Pallas3, C Radhakrishnan1

1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
3Blue Canyon Technologies, Boulder, CO


15:40  F5-7  THE NASA TROPICS CUBESAT RADIOMETERS

William Blackwell*

MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA


16:00  F5-8  PRELAUNCH PERFORMANCE OF THE 118 GHZ POLARCUBE 3U CUBESAT TEMPERATURE SOUNDING RADIOMETER

Lavanya Periasamy*1, Al Gasiewski1, Brian Sanders1, David Gallaher2, Robert Belter1, Joaquin Castillo1, David Kraft1, Josua Gordon3, Michael Hurowitz4

1Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
2National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado
3National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado
4Orbital Micro Systems, Boulder, Colorado


16:20  F5-9  DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF THE CUBESAT RADIOMETER RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE TECHNOLOGY VALIDATION (CUBERRT) SYSTEM

Christopher D. Ball*1, Chi-Chih Chen1, Andrew J. O'Brien1, Christa J. McKelvey1, Graeme E. Smith1, Mark Andrews1, J. Landon Garry1, Joel T. Johnson1, Sidharth Misra2, Rudi M. Bendig2, Carl Felten2, Shannon T. Brown2, Robert F. Jarnot2, Jonathon Kocz3, Damon C. Bradley4, Priscilla N. Mohammed4, Jared F. Lucey4, Kevin A. Horgan4, Quenton Bonds4, Carlos Duran-Aviles4, Michael A. Solly4, Matthew A. Fritts4, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier4, Matthew Pallas5, Ervin Krauss5, Doug Laczkowski5

1The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
3California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
4NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
5Blue Canyon Technologies, Boulder, CO