Technical Services - Winter 2008 - (Page 16)

SS systems suppOrt Wallops Island Team Members Execute Successful Launches and Win Prestigious NASA Award I n recent months, TS’ NASA Sounding Rockets Operations Contract (NSROC,) located on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, has delivered on a number of customer commitments, including the Kletzing launch for the University of Iowa, the Earle launch for the University of Texas, and the EUNIS launch for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The Earle mission, launched from Wallops Flight Facility, investigated mid-latitude ionospheric irregularities. EUNIS launched from White Sands Missile Range, N.M. to study the physical properties of solar corona; and the Kletzing mission explored the phenomenon of magnetic reconnection by making high-resolution measurements in a near-Earth space plasma environment. Kletzing carried NSROC’s Magnetic ACS (Attitude Control System) and was one of many NSROC accomplishments that led to receipt of the Kreiger Award. Douglas Rowland, Senior Engineer for Goddard Space Flight Center, praised NSROC for December’s Kletzing mission. “The NSROC payload team and the NASA Sounding Rocket Project Office did a fantastic job with building the payloads, getting them here, and handling the logistics and support for this highly complex mission,” he said. 1 For significant contributions in the development of new attitude control systems, saving the NASA customer millions of dollars and improving system accuracies to enable more science, NSROC, in partnership with White Sands Missile Range employees, were awarded the Robert L. Kreiger Award, presented annually to an individual or group who “best represent the Wallops culture.” The NSROC ACS (Attitude Control Systems) groups from Wallops Flight Facility and White Sands Missile Range were presented the Robert L. Kreiger award at the annual NASA Wallops Awards Ceremony. The ACS team consisted of: Walt Costello, Denise Crippen, Brian Tibbetts, Jeffrey Benton, Charles Kupelian, John Ozanne, Ron Kiefer, Valerie Gsell, Dave Jennings, Neil Shoemaker, Gerry Doyon, Pat McPhail, Dave Lang, Becky Grzelachowski, Carlos Martinez, Jesus Martinez, Chris Hoxworth, Paul Harmon, Stephen Bower, Terri Snyder, Kenneth Starr and Dennis Melvin. TS 1 2 3 Members of the Wallops ACS group (l-r) Walt Costello, Dr. Brian Tibbits, John Ozanne, Terri Snyder, Jeff Benton and Jerry Doyon. The Kletzing payload blasts off the launcher at Andoya Rocket Range in Norway. Dr. Douglas Rabin (third from left) and the Science Team from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center await the launch of their EUNIS payload at White Sands Missile Range. NSROC designed, tested and built the EUNIS payload. The Earle payload before liftoff. 2 3 4 4 Technical Services Magazine • Winter 2008 16

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Technical Services - Winter 2008 Contents President’s Column Lake Charles Maintenance and Modification Center Celebrates Milestones F-18 Fleet Support in Malaysia B-2 Receives Upgrades U.S. Army Upgrades Entire Hunter Fleet Global Hawk Missions Flown in Support of California Wildfires Lanham Site Provides World-Class Support FSE Warner Robins Achieves CMMI Level 3 Rating TS Participates in Multi-Sector Conference Egypt and Volunteer Activities Fort Hood Team Prepares Warfighters for Combat; eSupport Team TS Team Members in Turkey Wallops Island Team Wins Kreiger Award TS Teams Win Chairman’s Award for Excellence ACS Program and Continuing Education; Space Gateway Training Team to Combat IED Threat Shoulder to Shoulder – Brad Britt; Saudi Arabia Service Milestones Warner Robins Training and Simulation I’m In! Ethics; ID/IQ Business; All-Hands Meetings

Technical Services - Winter 2008

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