IEEE CTS Joint Comm/SP, Computer, and SMC/AESS Meeting
Deep space communications for Earth to New Horizons Spacecraft
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- Date: 19 Apr 2019
- Time: 12:00 PM to 01:15 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
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- 145 Tom Slick Ave
- San Antonio, Texas
- United States 78238-5166
- Building: SwRI Cafeteria (Building 161)
- Room Number: Private Dining Room
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- Co-sponsored by Central Texas Section IEEE Computer Chapter San Antonio and Joint SMC/AESS Chapter
- Starts 06 March 2019 01:38 PM
- Ends 19 April 2019 02:38 PM
- All times are (GMT-06:00) US/Central
- No Admission Charge
- Menu: Pay for food at cafeteria
Speakers
Dr. Mark Tapley of Southwest Research Institute
Deep space communications for Earth to New Horizons Spacecraft
Biography:
Dr. Tapley is an Institute Engineer at Southwest Research Institute.
He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University, a MS in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, and a BS in Engineering Science from UT Austin.
Dr. Tapley’s final education centered on analysis of geodetic missions. He worked with the Gravity Probe B mission at Stanford University, in utilizing its extremely quiet dynamic environment to enhance recovery of gravitational field observations with the gyroscope suspension and GPS navigation systems. Dr. Tapley also served as a Systems Engineer on that extremely challenging mission. Beginning in 1996, Dr. Tapley became the Mission System Engineer for the very successful IMAGE mission for ionospheric and magnetic imaging. His responsibilities for IMAGE included requirements tracking and verification for which he oversaw development of a database system later used on other GSFC missions. He also wrote and conducted payload functional tests and served as second shift Mission Operations Manager for the 40-day IMAGE in orbit checkout period, and later automated much of the routine command generation process for the IMAGE science payload. He also worked in System Engineering for the IBEX Small Explorer mission, using energetic neutral atoms to image the heliopause from a highly eccentric Earth orbit. He served as PI for the F6WICS element of the DARPA System F6 project, wherein SwRI supplied prototypes for the omnidirectional cross-link radio, a crucial element of the fractionated-satellite mission concept. He is currently Deputy Payload System Engineer on the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, which encountered Pluto in July 2015. His primary area of interest is mission design and systems engineering as well as astrodynamical research. His experience has been diverse, including experimental work in low-gravity fluid slosh, electronic system development and test, software engineering, analysis of mission design, and analysis of spacecraft dynamics.
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