# Presentation: 196172

## Space Science ReviewDivision 81:  Physics & AstronomyApril 7, 1998

- _Science News_
- Solar Eclipse Madness:					(Suess)
- _Operations Report_
- _Struct. & Evol. Universe:_
- BATSE/CGRO					(Koshut)
- Two possible GRB Counterparts (GRB980326 and GRB980329).
- Monitored XTEJ0421 + 560, discovered by XTE/ASM on March 31.
- Peaked at 1.3 Crab (20 - 100 keV) on April 1, gone by end of day.  Optical counterpart is variable.  _*Possible*_ radio jet source.
- _Sun-Earth Connection:_
- TIDE/Polar					(Chandler)
- Transition to more automated operations for the Polar spacecraft will occur in June.
- UVI/Polar					(Spann)
- Carried out detector tests with U. Washington to determine statistical performance.

## Sun-Earth Connection: Continued
UVI/Polar					(Spann)
Carried out detector tests with U. Washington to determine statistical performance.
UVCS/SOHO					(Suess)
No Report
SWOOPS/Ulysses					(Suess)
No Report
Mission & Payload Development
Struct. & Evol. Universe:
AXAF
Launch still scheduled for first week of December ‘98
Delivery of observatory to KSC projected 08/16/98.
Both focal plane science instruments completed post-acoustic functional testing at TRW.
Marshall Project Science continues to coordinate and participate in AXAF calibration analysis.
GPB
On schedule for October 2000 launch
System validation review completed; good progress.

- UVI/Polar					(Spann)
- Carried out detector tests with U. Washington to determine statistical performance.
- UVCS/SOHO					(Suess)
- No Report
- SWOOPS/Ulysses					(Suess)
- No Report
- _Mission & Payload Development_
- _Struct. & Evol. Universe_:
- AXAF
- Launch still scheduled for first week of December ‘98
- Delivery of observatory to KSC projected 08/16/98.
- Both focal plane science instruments completed post-acoustic functional testing at TRW.
- Marshall Project Science continues to coordinate and participate in AXAF calibration analysis.
- GPB
- On schedule for October 2000 launch
- System validation review completed; good progress.

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- _Struct. & Evol. Universe_: *Continued*
- INTEGRAL (launch 2001)				(Ramsey)
- No Report
- Spectrum X (launch ‘99)
- On schedule for October 2000 launch
- System validation review completed; good progress.
- _Sun-Earth Connection_:
- Space Station					(Stone)
- ES83 has been asked to provide a multi-sensor DIFP for the Environment Monitoring Package (EMP).  An initial meeting was held between SSL and EMP management to lay out basic requirements and schedules.  Funding is being worked.  A rough mechanical layout of the EMP-DIFP has been developed by ES91.
- Solar B						(Davis)
- MSFC has formed a team with UAH, U. Hawaii, Montana State University, National Solar Observatory, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Michigan Aerospace and Raytheon to propose for the vector magnetograph.  ITT Aerospace and Communications recently agreed to become a partner.
- SXI
- No Report

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## Sun-Earth Connection: Continued
SXI						(Davis)
No Report
IMAGE/WIC					(Spann)
Aperture door undergoing surface treatment in preparation for thermal test.
Solar Lite					(Davis)
No Report	
Code M:
ProSEDS					(Stone)
We have met with the ProSEDS engineering team to lay out the mechanical, thermal, power, and data interfaces for the DIFP instrument.
A task agreement between ProSEDS and SSL is now in place.
SSL (ES91) is considering accepting the job of designing and producing the ProSEDS flight data system.

- SXI						(Davis)
- No Report
- IMAGE/WIC					(Spann)
- Aperture door undergoing surface treatment in preparation for thermal test.
- Solar Lite					(Davis)
- No Report
- _Code M_:
- ProSEDS					(Stone)
- We have met with the ProSEDS engineering team to lay out the mechanical, thermal, power, and data interfaces for the DIFP instrument.
- A task agreement between ProSEDS and SSL is now in place.
- SSL (ES91) is considering accepting the job of designing and producing the ProSEDS flight data system.
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## Advanced Technology and Mission Studies
Struct. & Evol. Universe: mission candidates: GLAST/SIFTER, Constellation, OWL, ACCESS
Constellation X					(Ramsey)	
The MSFC replicated -optics team continued efforts to control adhesion of optical coating on mandrel and to evaluate materials and processes for producing light-weight x-ray optics.
The team completed a 6-cm-diameter mandrel for replicating development shells for x-ray testing, and is ready to polish a 25-cm-diameter mandrel.
Ten proposals received against NRA for technology development.  Peer review set for April 15 - 16.
CdZnTe detector (GSFC) selected as baseline for the mission.  CalTech will provide readout electronics.
Orbiting Wide angle Lens (OWL):
EB51 has received $300k ATD funding for advanced Fresnel lens development.  The major part of that funding will be contracted to the Center for Applied Optics at UAH to design the OWL 2 meter, wide angle (30o half angle) lens.  Tom Parnell and Mark Christl are coordinating.
ACCESS					(Stone)

- _Struct. & Evol. Universe_: mission candidates: GLAST/SIFTER, Constellation, OWL, ACCESS
- Constellation X					(Ramsey)
- The MSFC replicated -optics team continued efforts to control adhesion of optical coating on mandrel and to evaluate materials and processes for producing light-weight x-ray optics.
- The team completed a 6-cm-diameter mandrel for replicating development shells for x-ray testing, and is ready to polish a 25-cm-diameter mandrel.
- Ten proposals received against NRA for technology development.  Peer review set for April 15 - 16.
- CdZnTe detector (GSFC) selected as baseline for the mission.  CalTech will provide readout electronics.
- Orbiting Wide angle Lens (OWL):
- EB51 has received $300k ATD funding for advanced Fresnel lens development.  The major part of that funding will be contracted to the Center for Applied Optics at UAH to design the OWL 2 meter, wide angle (30o half angle) lens.  Tom Parnell and Mark Christl are coordinating.
- ACCESS					(Stone)

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## Struct. & Evol. Universe: mission candidates: GLAST/SIFTER, Constellation, OWL, ACCESS  Continued
ACCESS						
$110k has been received for study of the Imaging Calorimeter for this Space Station experiment
GLAST
Major ATD proposal was submitted for GLAST/SIFTER.  Peer review scheduled for April 14 - 15.
Working with GSFC on a gamma-ray burst monitor for GLAST.
Sun-Earth Connection:
NGST
Five cryogenic actuator contracts have been awarded.
Enabling technologies under development by MSFC: large, low areal density, cold mirrors, and active optics; integrated optical/mechanical/thermal control modeling.
Struct. & Evol. Universe:

- ACCESS
- $110k has been received for study of the Imaging Calorimeter for this Space Station experiment
- GLAST
- Major ATD proposal was submitted for GLAST/SIFTER.  Peer review scheduled for April 14 - 15.
- Working with GSFC on a gamma-ray burst monitor for GLAST.
- _Sun-Earth Connection_:
- NGST
- Five cryogenic actuator contracts have been awarded.
- Enabling technologies under development by MSFC: large, low areal density, cold mirrors, and active optics; integrated optical/mechanical/thermal control modeling.
- _Struct. & Evol. Universe_:

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## Space Science ReviewDivision 81:  Physics & AstronomyApril 7, 1998

- _Struct. & Evol. Universe_:
- Wilson-Hodge selected as GI on Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.
- Joy and Bankston begin S-Z Effect observing run at Owens Valley Radio Observatory, end of May.
- Balloons:  Super-JACEE flight anticipated in April 1999 - Australia and South America.
- Petawatt Laser:  Laser firing series begins April 27; ES84 supports with emulsion technology analysis expertise.
- _Sun & Earth Connection_:
- Porter selected FI on SOHO
- Sounding Rockets:
- CAPER:  Machining parts and testing for January 1999 flight.  Coffey and Chandler, Co-I’s.
- MSSTA:  Multi-Spectral Solar Telescope Array reflight approved - Stanford - R. Hoover, Co-I.

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## Space Science ReviewDivision 81:  Physics & AstronomyApril 7, 1998

- _Solar System Exploration_:
- Abbas, Co-I on Cassini - Composite Infrared Spectrometer:  Development of Infrared Radioactive Transfer and Inversion Models.
- Plan to issue joint AO to solicit investigations for Europa Orbiter, Pluto/Kuiper Express, and Solar Probe around October 1998.
- Recommendation:  write into AO’s that proposers offer to outside users “faster data access, science processing/analysis support, and observing time”.
- _Astronom.. Search for Origins_:
- Astrobiology: two new impact sites located in Belize and Mexico (ejecta craters of Chicxulub).

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## Current R& D Financial Status:				(Reed)

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## Proposals/Research Prospects:
TSS, TSS-1R, Electrodynamic tether physics, the Jovian tether study, and MSFC tether programs were presented to the MSFC Advanced Propulsion Division.  They showed considerable interest in working together on unmanned spacecraft propulsion systems.
BOLAS:  (Canadian Mission) - Not selected by Canadian Space Agency.
GPS piggyback:  White paper documenting science justification has been prepared.
SOURCES:  proposed collaboration between MSFC and IKI; determine the origin of plasma which resides in the magnetotail and the plasma sheet.
Proposal effort:  Magnetic Reconnection Studies (NRA 98-OSS-03) (Chandler)
Proposal effort:  Experimental Determination of Infrared Extinction  (Abbas) Crossections of Interplanetary Dust Particles.
Proposal effort:  MIDEX gamma ray burst locator.  Industry partners selection by April 15.  Instrument complement being re-defined.
Proposal effort:  Microgravity, E. Ciszak PI, M.Joy Co-PI
Proposal effort:  Macromolecular crystallography, E. Ciszak PI, M. Joy Co PI.
Proposal effort:  Long Term Space Astrophysics, J. Carlstrom PI, M. Joy Co-I
Proposal pending:  ATD for GLAST/SIFTER
		Astrobiology, partner with JSC and with JPL.

- TSS, TSS-1R, Electrodynamic tether physics, the Jovian tether study, and MSFC tether programs were presented to the MSFC Advanced Propulsion Division.  They showed considerable interest in working together on unmanned spacecraft propulsion systems.
- BOLAS:  (Canadian Mission) - Not selected by Canadian Space Agency.
- GPS piggyback:  White paper documenting science justification has been prepared.
- SOURCES:  proposed collaboration between MSFC and IKI; determine the origin of plasma which resides in the magnetotail and the plasma sheet.
- Proposal effort:  Magnetic Reconnection Studies (NRA 98-OSS-03) (Chandler)
- Proposal effort:  Experimental Determination of Infrared Extinction  (Abbas) Crossections of Interplanetary Dust Particles.
- Proposal effort:  MIDEX gamma ray burst locator.  Industry partners selection by April 15.  Instrument complement being re-defined.
- Proposal effort:  Microgravity, E. Ciszak PI, M.Joy Co-PI
- Proposal effort:  Macromolecular crystallography, E. Ciszak PI, M. Joy Co PI.
- Proposal effort:  Long Term Space Astrophysics, J. Carlstrom PI, M. Joy Co-I
- Proposal pending:  ATD for GLAST/SIFTER
- 		Astrobiology, partner with JSC and with JPL.

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## Partnering Efforts

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## Issues/Announcements/Resources

Development of Planetary Atmospheres Lab (infrared signatures of aerosol, haze, cloud, dust) to enable participation in missions to investigate planets, comets, asteroids, and meteorites.  First measurements of particle charging under the influence of the electron beam.

Travel:  will receive additional increment of about 10%; 1998 budget 80% of 1997 budget; need still exists for reimbursable funds through cross-service orders with other government agencies, e.g.,m DOE, DOD, NOAA, NIST.

Patent Applications - MSFC encourages employees to submit; fee paid by Center.

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- Development of Planetary Atmospheres Lab (infrared signatures of aerosol, haze, cloud, dust) to enable participation in missions to investigate planets, comets, asteroids, and meteorites.  First measurements of particle charging under the influence of the electron beam.
- Travel:  will receive additional increment of about 10%; 1998 budget 80% of 1997 budget; need still exists for reimbursable funds through cross-service orders with other government agencies, e.g.,m DOE, DOD, NOAA, NIST.
- Patent Applications - MSFC encourages employees to submit; fee paid by Center.

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## Issues/Announcements/Resources continued

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## Education/Outreach					(All)

	- Open House:  May 16 (9a.m. - 6 p.m.) Tom Koshut to coordinate for ES81 Division.

- 	- Open House:  May 16 (9a.m. - 6 p.m.) Tom Koshut to coordinate for ES81 Division.

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## Upcoming Events						(All)
April
3		Workshop on Laboratory Space Science - Cambridge
6 - 7 	AXAF Proposal Review - Boston
6 - 9 	Dusty Plasma Workshop
14 - 16 	SECAS - Washington, DC
30 		Space Congress - Cocoa Beach
30		Astrophysics Working Group - Washington, DC

May
17 - 22	American Society for Microbiology - Atlanta
26 - 29	AGU Spring Meeting - Boston

June
18 - 19 	SSES - Washington, DC
30 		SEUS - Cambridge, MA

July
18 - 25	SPIE Meeting - San Diego - Hoover, O’Dell, Ramsey & Weisskopf
29		SScAC - Washington, DC

**April**
- 3		Workshop on Laboratory Space Science - Cambridge
- 6 - 7 	AXAF Proposal Review - Boston
- 6 - 9 	Dusty Plasma Workshop
- 14 - 16 	SECAS - Washington, DC
- 30 		Space Congress - Cocoa Beach
- 30		Astrophysics Working Group - Washington, DC
**May**
- 17 - 22	American Society for Microbiology - Atlanta
- 26 - 29	AGU Spring Meeting - Boston
**June**
- 18 - 19 	SSES - Washington, DC
- 30 		SEUS - Cambridge, MA
**July**
- 18 - 25	SPIE Meeting - San Diego - Hoover, O’Dell, Ramsey & Weisskopf
- 29		SScAC - Washington, DC

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## ES01/Comments:						G. Wilson

Science Communications:					J. Horack

Open Discussion:

Communications/Group Meetings
	Group		Day		Time	Room
	Gamma Ray Group	Monday		9:30	107
	Astrophysics Branch	Monday		3:00	107
	X-Ray Group		Wednesday	9:00	320A
	Solar Physics Branch	Wednesday	9:30	369
	Space Plasma Branch	Wednesday	2:30	369

Open Discussion:

- _Science Communications_:					J. Horack
- _Open Discussion_:
- _Communications/Group Meetings_
- 	**Group****	****	****Day****	****	****Time****	****Room**
- 	Gamma Ray Group	Monday		9:30	107
- 	Astrophysics Branch	Monday		3:00	107
- 	X-Ray Group		Wednesday	9:00	320A
- 	Solar Physics Branch	Wednesday	9:30	369
- 	Space Plasma Branch	Wednesday	2:30	369
- _Open Discussion:_

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