THz Science and Technology Seminar (TSTS) Series: Space Exploration and Our Place in the Universe
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2026, is at the forefront of building instruments for NASA missions. NASA’s mission has always been to explore the universe and our own planet Earth from space. This includes robotics missions like Voyager, which continues its journey beyond our solar system, missions to Mars and other planets, and astrophysics missions exploring stars and galaxies.
The selection of NASA missions is driven by fundamental science questions, and the development of innovative instruments to answer these questions. We design and build instruments that enable precise measurements to help answer these scientific inquiries. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the state of-the-art instruments we are currently developing and detail the science questions they aim to address.
Rapid progress in various fields—such as commercial software for component and device modeling, low-loss circuits and interconnect technologies, cell phone technologies, and submicron-scale lithographic techniques—is enabling us to design and develop smart, low-power yet highly capable instruments that can even fit within SmallSat or CubeSat platforms. We will also discuss the challenges of future-generation instruments in addressing the needs of criticalscientific applications.
The research described herein was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, under contract with National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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- Date: 01 May 2025
- Time: 05:30 PM UTC to 06:45 PM UTC
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- Co-sponsored by Staracom
- Starts 18 April 2025 04:00 AM UTC
- Ends 01 May 2025 05:00 PM UTC
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Goutam Chattopadhyay of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Goutam Chattopadhyay is a Senior Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a Visiting Professor at Caltech in Pasadena, USA. He has previously held the position of BEL Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India. Dr. Chattopadhyay earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2000. He is a Fellow of both IEEE (USA) and IETE (India), serves as a Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, and is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He will also serve as the 2025 President of IEEE MTT-S. His research interests include microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz receiver systems and radars, as well as the development of space instruments for the search for life beyond Earth.
Dr. Chattopadhyay has published over 400 papers in international journals and conferences and holds more than 20 patents. He has received over 35 NASA Technical Achievement and New Technology Invention Awards. In 2024, he was honored with the Armstrong Medal from the Radio Club of America (RCA) for his outstanding contributions for radio science. He also received the NASA-JPL People Leadership Award in 2023. He was named IEEE Region-6 Engineer of the Year in 2018 and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), India, in 2017. Additionally, he has won the Best Journal Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology in both 2020 and 2013, the Best Paper Award for Antenna Design and Applications at the European Antennas and Propagation Conference (EuCAP) in 2017, the IETE Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award in 2014, and the IETE Biman Bihari Sen Memorial Award in 2022.
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