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Principal Investigator
Chris Koehler
Director, Colorado
Space Grant Consortium
University of Colorado at Boulder
Mr. Koehler
has been the PI on several programs including but not
limited to
STTR/SBIR NASA subcontract
with Redefine Technologies, for design of a triple redundant
spacecraft system T3RSS. He has also been PI on IOSTAR/COSGC
Nuclear Space Tug Research Collaboration, the Air
Force Research Labs Student Hands-On Training (SHOT)
workshops,
Colorado Students and
Mentors Applying Research in Space (C-SMARTS), and NASA’s
Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Higher Education
grant for undergraduate and graduate student research.
He was also PI on NASA’s Workforce Development Program
titled DemoSat for three years. He is also the PI on
NASA’s Colorado Space Grant Consortium Grant. His many
PI experiences in spacecraft-technology and space-science
make him the perfect primary investigator for the DANDE
mission.
Co-Investigators
 Dr.
Jeffrey Forbes
Glenn Murphy Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0429
Professor Forbes currently serves on the Editorial Board of
the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics,
and is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of
Geophysical Research (Space Physics). He is a former member
of the National Academy of Sciences Committees on Solar and
Space Physics (1985-1988) and on Solar Terrestrial Research
(1987-1990), in addition to a number of professional society
committees, working groups and advisory committees at the
national and international levels. Recent activities in this
area include service on the NASA Hq Sun-Earth Connections
Advisory Subcommittee (SECAS, 2001-2004), the NASA APIO
(Advanced Program Integration Office) Sun-Solar System
Connections Roadmap Team (2004-2005), and the Integrated
Program Review Committee (IPRC) for the British Antarctic
Survey (BAS, 2001-2005). He was Chair of the Science
Steering Committee for the NSF CEDAR Program from 1994-1996,
and is one of nine Principal Investigators on the NASA TIMED
Mission (2001-present).
 Dr.
Scott Palo
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0429
The central
overarching thrust of Dr. Palo’s research is to understand
how disturbances are generated in the Earth's atmosphere and
how they effect the dynamics, thermal structure and
composition of the coupled
mesosphere-thermosphere-ionosphere system (50 to 400 km).
His work also includes the understanding of the complex
sampling relationships which occur when spacecraft are used
to measure these disturbances.
Dr. Palo has worked at the High Altitude Observatory at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research and has published
many papers on the topics of atmospheric phenomena and
satellite density variation measurements. His interest in
these areas is a key asset to the DANDE mission as Dr. Palo
has devoted much effort to sensor data and sensor data
analysis in the context of studying the neutral atmosphere.
Collaborators
Bruce Bowman
Senior Astrodynamicist
HQ AFSPC/A9AC
As the
senior astrodynamicist for the Air Force, Mr. Bowman has
been working with and advancing the atmospheric density
models used by the Air Force for drag prediction and
precision orbit determination. His current work is
concentrated on the analysis of satellite orbits to
calibrate the density model in near-real time. He has
also recently released a new atmospheric density model, the
Jacchia-Bowman 2006. Mr. Bowman has published over
twenty papers on the topics of satellite drag, atmospheric
density, and drag coefficient variation and is the topmost
expert in the field of model calibration through satellite
observations.
Dr. Tim Fuller-Rowell
Senior Research Associate and Fellow of CIRES
Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University
of Colorado,
Head of Upper Atmosphere Research Group
Dr. Timothy
Fuller-Rowell is a senior research associate and fellow of
the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences at the University of Colorado. He is
currently stationed at NOAA and is the head of the Upper
Atmosphere Research Group. Dr. Fuller-Rowell is
responsible for developing the first three-dimensional,
time-dependent model of the global thermosphere. He
then went on to produce the first coupled
ionosphere-thermosphere model and has later included
coupling to the plasmasphere. Dr. Fuller-Rowell has
published over 150 scientific papers in refereed journals,
has presented numerous invited talks at national and
international meetings, and has served on or chaired several
national and international panels and committees.
Engineering Design Team
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Name |
Subsystem |
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Marcin Pilinski |
Management |
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Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS) |
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Mike Grusin |
Systems (SYS) |
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Filip Maksimovic |
Systems (SYS) |
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James Gorman |
Electrical Power System (EPS) |
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Eric Palkhe |
Electrical Power System (EPS) |
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Eric Dickey |
Accelerometer (ACC) |
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Brady Young |
Attitude Determination & Control (ACS) |
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Karina Ogilvie |
Attitude Determination & Control (ACS) |
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Brandon Giles |
Command & Data Handling (CDH/SFT) |
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Diana Loucks |
Communications (COM) |
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Bruce Davis |
Integration and Testing Lead (I&T) |
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Structures (STR) |
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Andrew Tomchek |
Structures (STR/SEP) |
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Bradley Brisnehan |
Structures (STR/SEP) |
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Jared Leidich |
Structures (STR/SEP) |
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Colin Miller |
Structures (STR/SEP) |
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Casey Kuhns |
Separations Test Lead |
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Marcus Rahimpour |
Separations Test Engineer |
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Tom "Wes" Roos |
Separations Test Engineer |
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Matthew Capron |
Separations Test Engineer |
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Emily Walters |
Thermal (THM) |
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Shannon Dickson |
Thermal (THM) |
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Markus Wilde |
Operations |
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