“Every semester, more than 40 graduate students from various science, technology, engineering, and mathematics backgrounds attend our Spacecraft Technology and Space Systems Design Management courses to learn the skills that are necessary to become technical managers in the space industry. As an instructor, one of the most rewarding aspects of this program for me is the … [Read more...] about Career Planning: The NASA way [Career Advisor]
Space vehicles
Impacts of Low-Power Requirements on the LEMS HMS Design
Spacecraft designs often require optimizations for low power. When low power is required, design options become limited. The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) exemplifies how requirements for low power can have ramifications across a system, even impacting Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) design. LEMS is a standalone instrument suite concept with a number of … [Read more...] about Impacts of Low-Power Requirements on the LEMS HMS Design
Commanding the James Webb Space Telescope: OSS and Event-Driven Operations
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space-based, near- to mid-infrared observatory that follows a novel engineering design: Unlike its infrared predecessors such as the Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory, and many other observatories of similar designs, JWST employs the use of a segmented primary mirror and a Sunshield the size of a tennis court. The … [Read more...] about Commanding the James Webb Space Telescope: OSS and Event-Driven Operations
