[Sasa_leadership] SaSa mission Piggy Back

Thu May 13 18:38:09 UTC 2021

Yes, I believe 4STAR flew piggyback on SARP way back when.  What Emily said sounds basically good to me (and I'm sure we could get an additional interesting lecture out of it as well).

Kristina

From: Sasa_leadership <sasa_leadership-bounces at espo.nasa.gov> On Behalf Of Emily Schaller via Sasa_leadership
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To: Wu, Dong L. (GSFC-6130) <dong.l.wu at nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: [Sasa_leadership] SaSa mission Piggy Back

Hi All,

We have had piggyback instruments fly on SARP several times. It can be a good symbiotic relationship - the piggyback instrument gets flight time to test out their instrument and the students get to learn about an additional instrument (often times we will ask piggyback folks to give a talk about what their instrument does which provides additional enrichment for the students both on the ground and on the plane). Given that piggyback instruments are in the testing phase, there is generally no way that their data will become available in a suitable time frame for th

Also, it needs to be made very clear from the outset that piggyback instruments do not get to influence the flight plans at all. They are getting free flight hours so they fly wherever we want to fly.

In order to determine if this is going to work, you will also need to know what ports/location/etc on the P-3 they will need for their instrument and make sure that doesn't interfere with our payload.

Emily

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:56 AM Wu, Dong L. (GSFC-6130) via Sasa_leadership <sasa_leadership at espo.nasa.gov<mailto:sasa_leadership at espo.nasa.gov>> wrote:
Gatebe,

I am not aware of this concept, but this could be an independent evaluation of spacecraft jitter correction. From Belay's suggestion, I assume that we will have an IMU onboard to enable the jitter correction (the tedious part of stereo image data processing).

-Dong

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Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 12:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [Sasa_leadership] SaSa mission Piggy Back

FYA

Respectfully,

Gatebe

From: "Moisan, John R. (WFF-610W)" <john.r.moisan at nasa.gov<mailto:john.r.moisan at nasa.gov>>
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 7:14 AM
To: "Charles K. Gatebe" <charles.k.gatebe at nasa.gov<mailto:charles.k.gatebe at nasa.gov>>
Cc: Matt Kowalewski <matthew.g.kowalewski at nasa.gov<mailto:matthew.g.kowalewski at nasa.gov>>
Subject: SaSa mission question.

Hi Charles,

I am writing to inquire if you would be open to possibly allowing me to piggy back on your SaSa flight experiments for the summer of 2022.  I have a small IRAD project that I will be seeking a second year of support for.  It has a Headwall hyperspectral imager, several Avantes spectrometers, a FLIR thermal camera and a high resolution camera along with a INS instrument.  The focus of the mission is two-fold.  The first is to continue development and testing of a smart optical pointing instrument that was first developed by Scott Janz and Matt Kowalewski (GSFC).  We are working to integrate AI into the pointing capability for the Aventes spectrometers to allow us to use the headwall measurement to target points of interest for higher res spectral measurements.  In addition, we are working to be able to point to optically dark (least reflective) surfaces of water bodies to obtain high quality water leaving radiance measurements.  The payload is minimal.  In fact we are flying it next week on a Cessna 206.

I understand that your SaSa effort is an educational effort.  Our measurements are being processed to support the SBG mission and we make all of the data available for that type of research.  If there is an interest in the SaSa project to incorporate this type of data set I would be happy to discuss what that might entail and how we might make that happen.

Let me know your thoughts on this.  I am planning to submit a Phase I proposal this evening with a TBD on the aircraft opportunity.  I would need to be specific in the later more detailed Phase-2 proposal.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

John

Dr. John R. Moisan, Ph.D.
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