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Regional Super ESPC Saves Energy and Dollars at NASA Johnson Space Regional Super ESPC Saves Energy and Dollars at NASA Johnson Space Center Regional Super ESPC Saves Energy and Dollars at NASA Johnson Space Center October 7, 2013 - 1:57pm Addthis Space Shuttle Endeavour, 2002 The NASA Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston is well known for its achievements in the U.S. space program (this 2002 photo shows the Space Shuttle Endeavour on its way to the International Space Station). Overview NASA will save approximately $43 million in facility operations costs over the next 23 years at the Johnson Space Flight Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, thanks to the largest delivery order signed to date under a Regional Super Energy Savings Performance Contract (Super ESPC). The U. S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) instituted
BNL NASA Space Radiation Laboratory
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Purpose: To use beams of heavy ions provided by the Booster accelerator at Brookhaven to study the effects of simulated space radiation on biological and physical systems, with the goal of developing methods and materials to reduce the risk to human beings on prolonged space missions of the effects of ionizing radiation Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Project cost $34 million over 4 years Operating costs Nearly $8 million per year in 2007 Features * beams of heavy ions extracted from the Booster accelerator with masses and energies similar to the cosmic rays encountered in space: * 1-billion electron volt (GeV)/nucleon iron-56 * 0.3-GeV/nucleon gold-97 * 0.6-GeV/nucleon silicon-28 * 1-GeV/nucleon protons * 1-GeV/nucleon titanium
Illumination Levels in NASA Support Rooms in Medical and NSRL Facilities Illumination Levels in NASA Support Rooms in Medical and NSRL Facilities A. Readings in Medical Room Macro-Environment Micro-Environment Macro-Environment Micro-Environment (in Foot Candles) (in Foot Candles) (in Lux) (in Lux) 9-274 21.5 3.5 231 37.7 11-143 58 3.8 624 40.9 11-211 58 4.2 624 45.2 11-212 35 4.5 377 48.4 11-213 44 4.3 474 46.3 11-214 36.5 5.5 393 59.2 11-221 51 6.2 549 66.7 11-231 24.5 2.9 264 31.2 11-232 37.5 3.5 404 37.7 11-244 35.5 2.8 382 30.1 B. Readings in NSRL Room Macro-Environment Micro-Environment Macro-Environment Micro-Environment (in Foot Candles) (in Foot Candles) (in Lux) (in Lux) A-1 57 24 613 258 A-2 81.5 32 877 344 A-3 51 11.8 549 127 Top of Page Last Modified: July 15, 2008
In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space
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was tested March 26, 2004. The engines will burn for eight and one-half minutes as Atlantis roars into spaceIn the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the external fuel tank for space. The external tank carries the fuel that will be used by a trio of space shuttle main engines to lift Atlantis
NASA Space Radiobiology Research Takes Off at New Brookhaven Facility
NASA Space Radiobiology Research Takes Off NASA Space Radiobiology Research Takes Off at New Brookhaven Facility Because astronauts are spending more and more time in space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is working with Brookhaven and others here on Earth to learn about the possible risks to human beings exposed to space radiation. To study the radiobiological effects using proton and ion beams that simulate the cosmic rays found in space, a new $34-million NASA Space Radiation Laboratory was commissioned at Brookhaven this summer. --by Karen McNulty Walsh and Marsha Belford "TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE"- the motto of the science-fiction saga Star Trek - could just as easily be the motto of America's real-life space explorers. Despite the recent Columbia shuttle tragedy, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have a bold vision for future manned space exploration, which includes the completion of the International Space Station now under construction, and possible future missions to build a Moon outpost, explore near-Earth asteroids, and send astronauts to Mars.
Programmatic status of NASA`s CSTI high capacity power Stirling Space Power Converter Program
DOE Green Energy (OSTI)
An overview is presented of the NASA Lewis Research Center Free-Piston Stirling Space Power Converter Technology Development Program. This work is being conducted under NASA`s Civil Space Technology Initiative (CSTI). The goal of the CSTI High Capacity Power element is to develop the technology base needed to meet the long duration, high capacity power requirements for future NASA space initiatives. Efforts are focused upon increasing system thermal and electric energy conversion efficiency at least fivefold over current SP-100 technology, and on achieving systems that are compatible with space nuclear reactors. This paper will discuss the status of test activities with the Space Power Research Engine (SPRE). Design deficiencies are gradually being corrected and the power converter is now outputting 11.5 kWe at a temperature ratio of 2 (design output is 12.5 kWe). Detail designs have been completed for the 1050 K Component Test Power Converter (CTPC). The success of these and future designs is dependent upon supporting research and technology efforts including heat pipes, gas bearings, superalloy joining technologies and high efficiency alternators. This paper also provides an update of progress in these technologies.
Dudenhoefer, J.E.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration www.nasa.gov
National Aeronautics and Space Administration www.nasa.gov Volume 4, Issue 9 May 2008 GoddardViewThe Mouse That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare Pg 8 Goddard Employees Get an Introduction That Roared: Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare 8 Goddard Employees Get an Introduction to GLAST 9
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: http://techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov n GoddardUpdates NASA Enters Agreement with NIST By Nicole Quinelle
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John C. Stennis Space Center www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis SPRING 2005
on the history and transformation of the Space Shuttle Main Engines that roared to life at SSC in 1975. HoweverJohn C. Stennis Space Center www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis SPRING 2005 Inside: New NASA S T R Y S I T E Explore. Discover. Understand. VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4 30 years of Space Shuttle Main Engine
transfer success stories. For more successes and other OTT news, go to http://techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov. n
's Holographic Circle-to-Point Converter, visit: http://techtransfer.gsfc.nasa.gov Did You Know? Disposable
NAC Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense August 17 and 20, 2010 1 NASA ADVISORY COUNCIL (NAC)
Reich, Reporter (Nature), Charles Miller, NASA HQ; and Dan McGarthy, Johnson Space Center Task Force in detail the wording and organization of their final report to the NAC, editing previous drafts
Controlled Antihydrogen Propulsion for NASA's Future in Very Deep Space
To world-wide notice, in 2002 the ATHENA collaboration at CERN (in Geneva, Switzerland) announced the creation of order 100,000 low energy antihydrogen atoms. Thus, the concept of using condensed antihydrogen as a low-weight, powerful fuel (i.e., it produces a thousand times more energy per unit weight of fuel than fission/fusion) for very deep space missions (the Oort cloud and beyond) had reached the realm of conceivability. We briefly discuss the history of antimatter research and focus on the technologies that must be developed to allow a future use of controlled, condensed antihydrogen for propulsion purposes. We emphasize that a dedicated antiproton source (the main barrier to copious antihydrogen production) must be built in the US, perhaps as a joint NASA/DOE/NIH project. This is because the only practical sources in the world are at CERN and the proposed facility at GSI in Germany. We outline the scope and magnitude of such a dedicated national facility and identify critical project milestones. We estimate that, starting with the present level of knowledge and multi-agency support, the goal of using antihydrogen for propulsion purposes may be accomplished in ~50 years.
Michael Martin Nieto; Michael H. Holzscheiter; Slava G. Turyshev
NASA Advisory Council Space Operations Committee July 2010
to solar panels Hubble spectrometer · · · Corrosion Lab · Coatings with microcapsules self healing to minimize boil-off Aerogels Wire insulation detection and healing layer · · Collaboration between NASA
Russell Johnson
Arasteh, Dariush K., Russell Johnson, Stephen E. Selkowitz, and Deborah J. Connell. "Cooling Energy and Cost Savings with Daylighting." In 2nd Annual Symposium on Improving...
Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
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Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) Nuclear Physics (NP) NP Home About Research Facilities Science Highlights Benefits of NP Spinoff Applications Spinoff Archives SBIR/STTR Applications of Nuclear Science and Technology Funding Opportunities Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) News & Resources Contact Information Nuclear Physics U.S. Department of Energy SC-26/Germantown Building 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20585 P: (301) 903-3613 F: (301) 903-3833 E: email@example.com More Information » Spinoff Archives Nasa Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) Print Text Size: A A A RSS Feeds FeedbackShare Page Application/Instrumentation: NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) Developed at: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD)
systems during the 2010 and 2011 deployments to Greenland. The CReSIS team perform measurements in conjunction with laser surface elevation measurements being performed by NASA Centers. Scien- tists around structure and describes the Agency's performance management system and management controls (i.e., values
Volume 4 Issue 5 www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis May 2009 Under a dry, hot Florida sky, space shuttle
Atlantis roars off Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida with its crew of sevenVolume 4 Issue 5 www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis May 2009 Under a dry, hot Florida sky, space shuttle for a rendezvous with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The launch was on time at 1:01 p.m. on May 11. With a perfect
NASA Advisory Council Space Operations Committee February 2011
, Assistant Associate Administrator for ISS · Heavy Lift/Space Launch System · Cristina Guidi, Exploration #4 Eric Boe Pilot Steve Lindsey Commander Mike Barratt Mission Specialist #3 Tim Kopra * Mission
Preliminary assessment of energy conservation opportunities at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
SciTech Connect
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is encouraging energy efficiency in its buildings and facilities as part of an overall strategy to meet the requirements of the Executive Order on Energy Efficiency and the Comprehensive Energy Policy Act of 1992. NASA requested technical assistance from the Pacific Northwest Laboratory to conduct a site visit, examine selected buildings and facilities, and suggest appropriate and economically acceptable energy efficiency measures and future actions at NASA`s Goddard Space Flight Center. PNL was also tasked to investigate the current and future demand-side management (DSM) programs offered by the servicing electric utility that would be applicable for the site. The information for this assessment was collected during site visits to the Goddard Space Flight Center during September and October 1992. The assessment addresses energy supply and cost, estimated energy distribution and use, and cost-effective options to reduce energy consumption at the center. Applicable utility DSM programs are also identified. A recommended strategy is identified to undertake a more comprehensive long-term energy reduction program at the site. A model approach is also given for the site to develop a partnership with the serving electric utility to implement a ``custom`` site-wide DSM program incorporating the several incentives offered by the utility to governmental agencies.
Hoffman, L. [L. Hoffman and Associates, Silver Spring, MD (United States); Parker, G.B. [Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov
data. The problems were designed to be `one-pagers' with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;Answer Key The relative sizes of some popular stars is given below, with the diameter of the sun;2Answer Key: Images ordered from largest to smallest and to scale: The sunspot drawn by Richard Carrington
NASA/FPL Renewable Project Case Study: Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center
NASA/FPL Renewable Project: NASA/FPL Renewable Project: Space Coast Next Generation Solar Energy Center Biloxi, MS - FUPWG April 5-6. 2009 Gene Beck Corporate Manager, Governmental Accounts Mark Hillman Executive Account Manger With over $9 billion already invested, FPL Group is the world leader in renewable energy FPL Group's renewable energy portfolio With over $9 billion already invested, FPL Group is the world leader in renewable energy FPL Group's renewable energy portfolio With over $9 billion already invested, FPL Group is the world leader in renewable energy FPL Group's renewable energy portfolio FPL has started construction on the world's first hybrid energy center in Martin County Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Project Total Facility = approx 11,300 acres Solar Field = approx 500 acres
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Improves Cooling System Performance: Best Management Practice Case Study #10: Cooling Towers (Fact Sheet)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has a longstanding sustainability program that revolves around energy and water efficiency as well as environmental protection. MSFC identified a problematic cooling loop with six separate compressor heat exchangers and a history of poor efficiency. The facility engineering team at MSFC partnered with Flozone Services, Incorporated to implement a comprehensive water treatment platform to improve the overall efficiency of the system.
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with heavy ions was carried out at the AGS accelerator. To simulate the less than 1-GeV energy spectrum of galactic cosmic rays and solar radiation better, NASA and Brookhaven...
To simulate the less than 1-GeV energy spectrum of galactic cosmic rays and solar radiation better, NASA and Brookhaven have worked together to build the NSRL based at...
Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov A supplementary collection
. The problems were designed to be `one-pagers' with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second page Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;Answer Key 1.1.1 Problem 1 11.3 x (12 inches/foot)x(12 inches://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;1.1.2 Answer Key: Conversion Table: 4 Gallons = 1 Bucket 142.065 cubic centimeters = 1 Noggin 9
Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor (PS&S) & Johnson and Johnson Teaming...
(PS&S) & Johnson and Johnson Teaming Profile cover page of document PS&S conducts a Cogeneration Feasibility Study to help Johnson & Johnson improve their facilities' power...
Shane Johnson | Department of Energy
Shane Johnson Shane Johnson About Us Shane Johnson - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology Innovation Shane Johnson Mr. Johnson serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology Innovation in the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE). He has held numerous senior management positions within NE including: Chief Operating Officer; Acting Director for the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology; Deputy Director for Technology; Associate Director for Advanced Nuclear Research; and Associate Director for Technology and International Cooperation. Mr. Johnson has been instrumental in launching several Department of Energy initiatives authorized by the nuclear energy provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, including the Nuclear Power 2010 program and the
Argonne Staff - Larry Johnson
larry johnson larry johnson Larry R. Johnson Director, Transportation Technology R&D Center Argonne Distinguished Fellow Argonne National Laboratory phone: 630/252-5631; fax: 630/252-4211 e-mail: email@example.com Professional Experience Argonne National Laboratory (1979 - Present) Argonne Distinguished Fellow Director, Transportation Technology R&D Center (1997-Present): Coordinate the Laboratory's transportation research programs, including vehicle systems, engines and emissions research, alternative fuels, advanced batteries, fuel cells, materials, tribology, sensors, and technology assessments. Disseminate technology developments though the quarterly newsletter, TransForum, and the Internet at www.transportation.anl.gov. Director, Center for Transportation Research, Energy Systems Division (1983-2000): Managed the Center's experimental research and assessment activities. Research includes: novel approaches to reduce engine emissions such variable air composition; hybrid vehicle component testing and system modeling; and technology assessments. Developed a major maglev experimental and analysis program at Argonne as the result of initial investigations into the economics of maglev systems. Promoted to Senior Economist in 1991.
Johnson Controls ESCO Qualification Sheet
Johnson Controls ESCO Qualification Sheet DOE Super ESPC Introduction to Johnson Controls Johnson Controls has been a worldwide leader in building controls and efficiency for over 120 years (since 1885). Johnson Controls has developed, designed, installed, financed, measured, verified, operated, maintained, and guaranteed the savings for more than 2,500 projects for our diverse customer base worldwide. Under current Federal ESPC contracts, we have Johnson Controls manages developed and implemented more than 75 projects for various a performance contracting agencies, including the Army, DOE, Air Force, Navy, General Services portfolio in the U.S. of over Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Justice Department, $4.3 billion
Robert P. Johnson Physics 10, 11/21/06 1 Physics 10 Lecture
," within our own galaxy. #12;Robert P. Johnson Physics 10, 11/21/06 10 Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB)Gamma Ray 21, 2006 Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope #12;Robert P. Johnson Physics 10, 11/21/06 2 Why a GammaWhy a Gamma--Ray Telescope in Space?Ray Telescope in Space? · Extend our astronomical coverage
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The Honorable Bernie Johnson
Office of Legacy Management (LM)
-A~ Qlfe p;u\ -A&#~ Qlfe p;u\ - L .- Department of Energy Washington, DC 20585 17 f 1-s 1 :j I, , .i ;:9:j The Honorable Bernie Johnson P.O.'Box 1355 Joplin, Missouri 64802 Dear Mayor Johnson: Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary has announced a new approach to openness in the Department of Energy (DOE) and its communications with the public. In support of this initiative, we are pleased to forward the enclosed information related to the Rogers Iron Works Co. site in your jurisdiction that performed work for DOE or its predecessor agencies. This information is provided for your information, use, and retention. DOE's Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program is responsible for identification of sites used by DOE's predecessor agencies, determining their
Optical Johnson noise thermometry
DOE Patents (OSTI)
This invention is a method and device for direct, non-contact temperature measure of a body. A laser beam is reflected from the surface of the body and detected along with the Planck radiation. The detected signal is analyzed using signal correlation technique to generate an output signal proportional to the Johnson noise introduced into the reflected laser beam as a direct measure of the absolute temperature of the body. 2 figs.
Shepard, R.L.; Blalock, T.V.; Roberts, M.J.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Improves Cooling System Performance: Best Management Practice Case Study #10: Cooling Towers (Revised) (Fact Sheet), Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)
National Aeronautics and Space National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is located in Huntsville, Alabama, adjacent to Redstone Arsenal. MSFC has over 4.5 million square feet of building space occupied by 7,000 personnel, and consumes approximately 240 million gallons of potable water annually, supplied through the City of Huntsville. MSFC has a longstanding sustainability program that revolves around energy and water efficiency as well as environmental protection. In 2005, MSFC built Building 4600, NASA's first certified building under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, achieving a prestigious Silver rating. Since that time, a companion building has been constructed at MSFC that achieved a
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Saves Water With High-Efficiency Toilet and Urinal Program: Best Management Practice Case Study #6 - Toilets and Urinals (Fact Sheet)
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has a longstanding, successful sustainability program that focuses on energy and water efficiency as well as environmental protection. Because MSFC was built in the 1960s, most of the buildings house outdated, inefficient restroom fixtures. The facility engineering team at MSFC developed an innovative efficiency model for replacing these older toilets and urinals.
Does Nuclear Insurance Protect Us or the Industry? Does Nuclear Insurance Protect Us or the Industry? by ABBY JOHNSON No-fault insurance for the nuclear power industry has never been a hot issue for Nevadans because we have no nuclear power plants in the state. But with the prospect of the nuclear power industry's toxic leftovers coming our way, it is important to take a close look at the Price-Anderson Act. The Price-Anderson Act indemnifies nuclear power utilities for liability in the event of a nuclear incident. (In Nuclear Regulatory Commission lingo, all accidents are incidents.) The Act uses an insurance pool, with premiums paid by each utility, supplemented by additional pooled utility funds in the event of a
NASA Procedural Requirements NPR 8020.12D
on Space Research (COSPAR) Planetary Protection Policy, as amended. e. NASA HDBK 6022, NASA Standard. Assay Methods (1) Utilization of NASA HDBK 6022 , NASA Standard Procedures for the Microbiological
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David Johnson | Department of Energy
You are here You are here Home » David Johnson About Us David Johnson - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Petroleum Reserves, Office of Fossil Energy Photo of David Johnson David Johnson is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Petroleum Reserves in the Office of Fossil Energy. He is responsible for the management and direction of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve and the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves programs. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which was authorized in 1975, contains over 700 million barrels of crude oil in four Government-owned storages sites along the Gulf Coast. The Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, which was created in 2000, contains 2 million barrels of heating oil for winter related shortages in three commercial storage terminals in the northeast
Yeo-Johnson Power Transformations
This paper describes an Arc add-in for using the Yeo-Johnson power transformations in place of the Box-Cox power transformations in various places in Arc. 1
Sanford Weisberg
BNL/NASA Radiobiology Program
General General Radiobiology Home AGS Description NSRL Description NSRL Images NASA Space Radiation Summer School NSRL Beam Info NSRL Users Beamline Requests Steps to Complete Prior to Your Experiment First Time Users Guide Related Links Biosciences Dept. Collider-Accelerator Dept. RHIC/AGS User Center NASA Space Research NASA-USRA Space Radiation Program Space Radiobiology A Collaborative Project sponsored by the NASA Space Radiation Program Manned space exploration in the 21st century holds exciting prospects for the advancement of science and the expansion of the human experience. Plans include the Alpha space station, an outpost on the Moon, exploration of near asteroids, and a piloted mission to Mars. However, for space exploration to go on, human crew members must be protected against the harsh environment of space, in particular, against the hazards of ionizing radiation. The radiation environment in space consists of high energy protons and high energy heavy ions (HZE).
Different types of radiation can be shielded by different materials Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov
://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;Answer Key 1- During an accident, a 70 kg person absorbed 1,000 Rem of x-ray radiation. How much are sitting here reading this article, electromagnetic radiation from sunlight, electric lights, power cables
NASA Enhanced Use Lease
KCA-4204 KCA-4204 NASA JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER ENHANCED USE LEASE This Enhanced Use Lease (the "Lease") is made as of the date set forth below by the signatories, by and between the NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, an Agency of the United States, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, as the lessor (hereinafter "NASA-KSC"), and Florida Power & Light Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Florida, as the lessee (hereinafter "FPL"). This Lease is made under the authority of section 315 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, as amended (42 U.S.C. §2459j) with reference to the following facts: R E C I T A L S A. NASA-KSC is committed to using its real property assets to efficiently
SC Johnson Waxdale Plant | Open Energy Information
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SC Johnson Waxdale Plant SC Johnson Waxdale Plant Jump to: navigation, search Name SC Johnson Waxdale Plant Facility SC Johnson Waxdale Plant Sector Wind energy Facility Type Community Wind Facility Status In Service Owner SC Johnson Developer SC Johnson Energy Purchaser SC Johnson Location Sturtevant WI Coordinates 42.71313982°, -87.88755655° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":42.71313982,"lon":-87.88755655,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Johnson Controls | Open Energy Information
Controls Controls Jump to: navigation, search Logo: Johnson Controls Name Johnson Controls Address 5757 N. Green Bay Avenue Place Milwaukee, Wisconsin Zip 53201 Sector Efficiency Stock Symbol JCI Website http://www.johnsoncontrols.com Coordinates 43.1219149°, -87.9353576° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":43.1219149,"lon":-87.9353576,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
The Honorable Bill Johnson j.
- Department of En&gy, - Department of En&gy, Washington, DC 20585 \APR 0 3 7995 The Honorable Bill Johnson j. 30 Church Street, Rochester, New-York 14614 / Dear MayorJohnson: 'I Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary has announced a'nei approach to openness in the Department of'Energy (DDE) and its communications with the public. In, support of this initiative, we are pleased to forward the enclosed info&tion related to the former University of. Rochester site in, your jurisdiction performed work for DOE or its predecessor agencies. Thins information is provided for your information, use, and retqntion. DDE's Formerly Utilized SitesRemedial Action Program.isI responsible for identification of sites used by DOE's predecessor agencies, determining current 'radiological condition.'and, where, it has authority, performing
NASA Research Areas of Interest Released by NASA HQ April 2013
NASA Research Areas of Interest Released by NASA HQ April 2013 NASA EPSCoR research priorities - studies and comparisons of responses of whole organisms and their systems; and · Developmental Biology-cellular organisms, as described in NASA's > Fundamental Space Biology Science Plan (PDF, 7.4 MB). Further details
Maxwell, Bruce D.
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(GSFC) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(GSFC) Data and Information Services Center(GES DISC) National Aeronautics and Space Administration www.nasa.gov Presentation Topics: 1)Quick overview of types of Data, Services and Tools at the GES DISC 2) Tour of GES DISC website http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov 3)Giovanni Demo: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni Presented by: Jennifer Brennan, NASA EOSDIS Outreach Lead, NASA GSFC, Adnet Systems Inc. 2 About GES DISC * Located within the Goddard Space Flight Center(GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland * Provides access to wide range of global climate data, concentrated primarily in areas of atmospheric composition, atmospheric dynamics, global precipitation, and solar irradiance. * The data center supports data from many heritage and EOS missions including Aqua,
NREL: Energy Sciences - Justin C. Johnson
At NREL Since: 2004 Justin Johnson received his B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1999. His undergraduate...
Info-Exch 2012- Thomas Johnson Presentation
Energy.gov (U.S. Department of Energy (DOE))
EM Recovery Act Program Director Thomas Johnson gave a presentation on Recovery Act lessons learned at the 2012 Recovery Act Information Exchange.
R. Shane Johnson, Associate Director
Technology and International Cooperation Technology and International Cooperation Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology April 15, 2002 University Programs University Programs Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology Johnson/April15_02 University to NERAC.ppt (2) Innovations in Nuclear Infrastructure and Education (INIE) Innovations in Nuclear Infrastructure and Education (INIE) 6 Program results from recommendation of NERAC Task Force 6 Conference in Chicago provided needed input on approach to "regional facilities" 6 INIE encourages universities to establish enhanced cooperation with other universities, national labs, U.S. industry and other private and public organizations 6 INIE seeks commitments from participating universities to
NASA p� Nya �ventyr i rymden.
?? The purpose of this thesis is to bring forward and discuss the American vision for space exploration found at NASA's homepage, how the vision� (more)
Nord, Johan
STOCHASTIC MODELS OF SPACE RADIATION DNA DAMAGE STOCHASTIC MODELS OF SPACE RADIATION DNA DAMAGE RESPONSES AND CANCER RISKS Francis A. Cucinotta 1 , Janice M. Pluth 2 , Artem Ponomarev 3 , Shaowen Hu 3 , Jennifer Anderson 4 , Jane Harper 4 , and Peter O'Neill 4 1 NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston TX, USA; 2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA; 3 U.S.R.A., Division of Life Sciences, Houston TX, USA; 4 MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit, Harwell, Didcot, UK Abstract: On space missions astronauts are exposed to a steady flux of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) consisting of high-energy protons and heavy ions. In the next decades long- term missions of up to 200 days to the Earth's moon and 1100 days to Mars are planed by NASA where cumulative doses will not be low (>100 mSv) albeit dose-
NIST, NASA Launch Joint Effort to Develop New Climate ...
NIST, NASA Launch Joint Effort to Develop New Climate Satellites. For ... space. The balance between them affects the climate. ...
NREL: Energy Sciences - David K. Johnson
K. Johnson K. Johnson Senior Scientist Photo of David K. Johnson Phone: (303) 384-6263 Email: email@example.com At NREL Since: 1982 David Johnson joined NREL in 1982. He has extensive knowledge and practical experience of electrochemistry, biomass composition and analysis, biomass pyrolysis oil fractionation and analysis, lignin chemistry, high-temperature and high-pressure lignin hydrotreating, supercritical fluid separations, and high-performance liquid and size exclusion chromatographies. He has guided research into conversion of lignin into high-octane gasoline blending components via based catalyzed depolymerization followed by catalytic hydrotreating. He has also led research into the effects of harvesting and storage on the composition of biomass feedstocks and the effect of these changes on the interaction
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Saves Water With High-Efficiency Toilet and Urinal Program: Best Management Practice Case Study #6 Toilets and Urinals (Fact Sheet), Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)
the National Aeronautics and Space the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) has a longstanding, successful sustainability program that focuses on energy and water efficiency as well as environmental protection. MSFC's key operations include propulsion and transportation systems for the space shuttle and Ares rockets. MSFC also provides advanced engineering and operations for International Space Station systems. Located in Huntsville, Alabama, adjacent to Redstone Arsenal, MSFC has more than 4.5 million square feet of building space occupied by 7,000 personnel. MSFC consumes approximately 240 million gallons of potable water annually, supplied through the City of Huntsville. MSFC is known for breaking new ground and pushing the
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Ion Species and Energies Used Previously at NSRL Ion Species and Energies Used Previously at NSRL Ion Species [1] Energy [2] (MeV/nucleon) Maximum Intensity [3] (ions per spill) LET [4] (keV/m) H-1 50 - 2500 6.4 x 1011 1.26 - 0.21 He-4 50 - 1000 0.88 x 1010 5.01 - 0.89 C-12 65 - 1000 1.2 x 1010 36.79 - 8.01 O-16 50 - 1000 0.4 x 1010 80.50 - 14.24 Ne-20 70 - 1000 0.10 x 1010 96.42 - 22.25 Si-28 93 - 1000 0.3 x 1010 151 - 44 Cl-35 500 - 1000 0.2 x 1010 80 - 64 Ar-40 350 0.02 x 1010 105.8 Ti-48 150 - 1000 0.08 x 1010 265 - 108 Fe-56 50 - 1000 0.2 x 1010 832 - 150 Kr-84 383 403 Xe-131 228 1204 Ta-181 292 - 313 1827 - 1896 Au-197 76 - 165 1 x 107 4828 - 3066 Sequential Field (Fe/H) 1000 Various 150/0.2 Solar Particle Event [5] 30 - 180 Various 1.26 - 0.21 [1] Different isotopes of some ions are also available. With the
NSRL NSRL Before studying beam fragmentation at NSRL, it is important to understand exactly what is the question that is being studied. This discussion is divided into Beam Fragmentation for Physicists and Beam Characterization for Biologists. Fragmentation for Physicists The LBL team [1] has conducted an exhaustive program to measure the fragmentation cross sections in heavy ion collisions. They use a pencil-thin beam of ion AB incident on a target ion AT at energy EBeam and look at fragments of the beam ions assuming the fragments are co-moving with the beam, i.e. move at the same velocity as the beam and at zero degrees scattering angle. The fragmentation cross sections have been measured very well down to fragment masses AF equal to half the incident ion mass, AB/2. NSRL has continued the work of the LBL team using scintillators to monitor the small angle scattering of beam and target projectiles. Details of these studies are at Fragmentation Physics (pdf).
Sample Holder Layout: Sample Holder Layout: NSRL maintains a wide variety of sample holders ready for users to mount standard sample containers in. This includes holders for four T75 flasks, six T25 flasks, and several arrangements for small test tubes. If you cannot make use of the existing sample holders, then NSRL staff can fabricate a custom sample holder to fit your needs. Most sample holders are carved out of low-mass polyethylene foam shown in the photographs below using a hot-wire cutter. This foam produces minimal scatter and fragmentation of the incoming heavy ion beam. It is sized for easy fitting into the sample flipper. If the sample holder you need is not already available, we can usually make up a custom holder for you on short notice. Figure 1 shows the Hot Wire Foam Cutter.
Tech Notes Tech Notes Item Number Title Author(s) Date NSRL-TN-05-001 NSRL Beam Characterization Study I-Hung Chiang, Adam Rusek, Michael Sivertz 10 December 2005 NSRL-TN-05-002 Time of Flight of NSRL Beams I-Hung Chiang, Adam Rusek, Michael Sivertz 18 October 2005 NSRL-TN-06-001 ToF Results From Run 06C I-Hung Chiang, Adam Rusek, Michael Sivertz 15 September 2006 NSRL-TN-07-001 Radiation Levels in the NSRL Target Room Michael Sivertz 27 November 2007 NSRL-TN-09-001 Development of the Pixel Chamber I-Hung Chiang, Adam Rusek, Daniel Ottavio, Dysart Ravenhall and Steve Bellavia 14 July 2009 NSRL-TN-10-001 Iron Beam Characterization Studies at NSRL Michael Sivertz, I-Hung Chiang, Adam Rusek 22 February 2010 NSRL-TN-10-002 Gold Beams at NSRL Michael Sivertz, I-Hung Chiang, Adam Rusek 10 March 2010
First Time Users Guide First Time Users Guide The following is a collection of useful facts that First Time Users of NSRL should familiarize themselves with. If you have any questions, contact the NSRL Liaison Physicist (631-344-3072 or 631-344-5830). You MUST have a dry run of your experiment before conducting your first NSRL run. When planning an exposure the time you need for each sample exposure should include time to change samples. If RHIC is running, the sample changing time is approximately 7 minutes. If RHIC is not running, time to change samples is only about 4 minutes. The size of the radiation field that can uniformly expose a set of samples can be as large as 20 x 20 cm2 for most ions and energies. By special request, the NSRL beam can operate in Large Beam mode with a 60 x 60 cm2 usable beam size.
which is regenerated in the Dosimetry control room with a V-102 module. It is a TTL level, and it needs a level shift for VME. Any simple NIM-level pulse can be used to...
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Incubator: Incubator: NSRL has available an incubator that has been modified to allow samples requiring strict environmental controls to be placed in the beam for long exposures. The incubator provides a temperature and humidity controlled enclosure, and has thin kapton windows to allow passage of the beam with minimal interaction. Ports in the incubator allow for calibration inside the incubator. The incubator itself can be mounted on the rails in the target room so that users can prepare their samples in the cell preparation rooms, and then roll the incubator into the target room for easy placement in the beam. The dimensions of the inside of the incubator are [need numbers here]. Several photographs below show the incubator mounted on the beamline rails in the NSRL Target Room ready to take beam.
Dosimetry Calibration: Primary Ion Chamber Dosimetry Calibration: Primary Ion Chamber Dosimetry Calibration: Secondary Ion Chamber Dosimetry Calibration: Secondary Ion Chamber with Gain Dosimetry Calibration: Scintillator Based Dosimetry Dosimetry Calibration: Primary Ion Chamber The primary method of calibrating the dose delivered at NSRL is via a small ion chamber called a "Calibration Ion Chamber" (aka EGG counter) produced by Far West Technology. This is an air-filled bulb with electrodes for collecting ionization inside a tissue-equivalent plastic cap. The Calibration Ion Chamber is sent back to the manufacturer yearly to be calibrated using a standard gamma ray source (Cs-137). The calibration is based on a standard defied by the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) and reported in their ICRU Report 59, 15 December 1998.
Uniformity and Profile: Uniformity and Profile: Although the beam profile at NSRL can be tuned to a variety of shapes and sizes, the most common profile used in radiobiology experiments is a "square" beam with a uniform center of approximately 20 x 20 cm2. A picture of this beam profile captured with the Digital Beam Imager is shown below. Figure 1: Beam Profile observed using the Digital Beam Imager showing four T75 flasks with a small amount of medium in the bottom of each flask. False color indicates the beam intensity is uniform across the 20 x 20 cm2 exposure area. Note that the foam used to hold the flasks is not registered by any change in intensity, and is essentially invisible in this image. Hot spots at the periphery are a by-product of octupole focusing magnets.
Spill Structure: Spill Structure: Under normal operating conditions, the Booster uses a 3.8 second cycle, with the extracted beam delivered during a 0.3-0.4 second interval. This is called the "Slow Extracted Beam", or SEB. Schematically, this would look like figure 1. Figure 1: Spill schematic of the beam delivery to NSRL. In reality, the beam delivered to NSRL is not uniformly distributed in time, but has time structure on many different levels. An ion chamber in the beam shows the slow time structure of extracted beam. Figure 2 shows the beam intensity as a function of time during normal slow extraction. Figure 2: Ion Chamber measurement of the time structure of the NSRL Beam Intensity during standard slow extracted beam. Vertical axis is proportional to beam intensity, horizontal axis is in milliseconds.
Stacking Samples: General Considerations Stacking Samples: General Considerations Stacking Samples: The Paradoxical Effect of Shielding Samples on a Table (or The Advantages of Foam Sample Holders) Stacking Samples: General Considerations When planning beam time requests, an important consideration is how many samples can be exposed at the same time. The large beam spot with uniform illumination (about 20 x 20 cm2) allows for as many as four T75 flasks or six T25 flasks to be contained within the beam center. Under certain conditions it is possible to stack multiple samples along the beam direction. The effect of stacked samples can either increase the dose or decrease the dose depending on the heavy ion being used, the beam energy, and other considerations. The details of dose delivery need careful consideration before sample stacking is utilized.
Activation Decay Times Activation Decay Times The beam used for experimentation at the NSRL facility will result in activation of material exposed to it. All materials irradiated in the NSRL target room are to be controlled as radioactive until surveyed and released by a BNL Radiological Controls Technician (RCT). Samples that have had radioactive tracers such as 3H or 14C added to them shall be controlled as radioactive through out the entire process and will not be released as non-radioactive. When liquid samples are activated, there exists a potential for dispersion of radioactive material through spilling of the sample during handling or manipulation creating a contamination area. Activated samples containing liquids that are manipulated required additional Radiological Training (Benchtop/Dispersable Training), a designated (Posted) radiological area to perform work in, and a Radiation Work Permit (RWP). When samples have had enough time to decay they again become non-dispersible and no special radiological handling is required. Correct and appropriate biological handling techniques always apply regardless of the sample's radiological status.
Flipper: Flipper: When exposing cell samples to the NSRL Beam, some users keep the cell samples in sample containers (such as the T25 or T75 bottles) with only a small amount of medium to keep the cells healthy. Putting the cells into the beam usually involves orienting the containers so that the cells are no longer covered by the medium. This can cause the cells to dry out or become damaged, degrading the results, so it became important to keep the time-out-of-medium to a minimum. To that end, users make use of the remote sample flipper which allows the containers to remain horizontal until immediately before the beam is delivered. The experimenter can then "flip" the samples up into the beam for the exposure, and then flip them back down as soon as the exposure is complete. This means that the cells will be out of their medium for typically less than a minute instead of the ~4-5 minutes required for the complete access. Pictures of the sample flipper in horizontal and vertical position illustrate the procedure. Controls for the sample flipper are a simple manual switch that the experimenters operate, with the help of NSRL operators.
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Johnson Johnson Place Kansas Utility Id 9776 Utility Location Yes Ownership M NERC Location SPP NERC SPP Yes Operates Generating Plant Yes Activity Generation Yes Activity Distribution Yes References EIA Form EIA-861 Final Data File for 2010 - File1_a[1] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Utility Rate Schedules Grid-background.png City Residential Lighting and General Appliance Service Residential Commercial and Small Power Service Commercial Power Service Industrial Average Rates Residential: $0.1220/kWh Commercial: $0.1190/kWh Industrial: $0.1010/kWh References ↑ "EIA Form EIA-861 Final Data File for 2010 - File1_a" Retrieved from "http://en.openei.org/w/index.php?title=City_of_Johnson,_Kansas_(Utility_Company)&oldid=409782
Johnson Controls Energy Efficiency Forum | Department of Energy
Johnson Controls Energy Efficiency Forum Johnson Controls Energy Efficiency Forum Johnson Controls Energy Efficiency Forum June 13, 2007 - 1:40pm Addthis Remarks for Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman It is good to be here with all of you. Over the past year I have spent a lot of time talking with foreign energy ministers, leaders in industry, members of Congress, state and local officials and ordinary citizens about the President's plan to enhance energy security. It's been a real education. I've come to the conclusion that energy policy is like the weather: everyone has an opinion on it. but expects someone else to do something about it. And when it says "United States Secretary of Energy" on your business card, like it does on mine, the person they expect to do something about it is me.
Johnson Controls and Midlothian Independent School District: SPP Success
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NASA/CR-2004-212805 Survey of Software Assurance Techniques for Highly Reliable Systems
NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program Office plays a key part in helping NASA maintain this important role. The NASA STI Program Office is operated by Langley Research Center, the Lead Center for NASA�s scientific and technical information. The NASA STI Program Office provides access to the NASA STI Database, the largest collection of aeronautical and space science STI in the world. The Program Office is also NASA�s institutional mechanism for disseminating the results of its research and development activities. These results are published by NASA in the NASA STI Report Series, which includes the following report types: � TECHNICAL PUBLICATION. Reports of completed research or a major significant phase of research that present the results of NASA programs and include extensive data or theoretical analysis. Includes compilations of significant scientific and technical data and information deemed to be of continuing reference value. NASA�s counterpart of peer-reviewed formal professional papers but has less stringent limitations on manuscript length and extent of graphic presentations. � TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM. Scientific and technical findings that are preliminary or of specialized interest, e.g., quick release reports, working papers, and bibliographies that contain minimal annotation. Does not contain extensive analysis.
Stacy Nelson
NASA-Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy | Open Energy Information
NASA-Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy NASA-Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary Name: NASA-Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy Agency/Company /Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Sector: Energy, Land Focus Area: Renewable Energy, Solar Topics: Resource assessment Resource Type: Dataset, Maps Website: eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse/ NASA-Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy Screenshot References: Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy[1] Main Points Over 200 satellite-derived meteorology and solar energy parameters Monthly averaged from 22 years of data Data tables for a particular location Color plots on both global and regional scales Global solar energy data for 1195 ground sites References ↑ "Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy"
The 1990 NASA Aerospace Battery Workshop
This document contains the proceedings of the 21st annual NASA Aerospace Battery Workshop, hosted by the Marshall Space Flight Center on December 4-6, 1990. The workshop was attended by scientists and engineers from various agencies of the U.S. Government, aerospace contractors, and battery manufacturers as well as participation in like kind from the European Space Agency member nations. The subjects covered included nickel-cadmium, nickel-hydrogen, silver-zinc, lithium based chemistries, and advanced technologies as they relate to high reliability operations in aerospace applications.
Kennedy, L.M.
NASA/Ames Global Emissions Data Set (GLEMIS) | Open Energy Information
NASA/Ames Global Emissions Data Set (GLEMIS) NASA/Ames Global Emissions Data Set (GLEMIS) Jump to: navigation, search Tool Summary LAUNCH TOOL Name: NASA/Ames Global Emissions Data Set (GLEMIS) Agency/Company /Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Sector: Land Focus Area: Forestry, Agriculture Topics: GHG inventory Resource Type: Dataset, Maps Website: gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_NASA_AMES_GLEMIS.html NASA/Ames Global Emissions Data Set (GLEMIS) Screenshot References: NASA/Ames Global Emissions Data Set (GLEMIS)[1] "NASA-CASA data sets include global maps for predicted fluxes of soil nitrogen gases (N2O and NO), methane (CH4), and carbon monoxide (CO), plus predictions of net primary production (NPP) and carbon storage in leaf, wood, root, litter, and surface soil pools. Others data sets will follow.
The NASA CSTI High Capacity Power Project
The SP-100 Space Nuclear Power Program was established in 1983 by DOD, DOE, and NASA as a joint program to develop technology for military and civil applications. Starting in 1986, NASA has funded a technology program to maintain the momentum of promising aerospace technology advancement started during Phase I of SP-100 and to strengthen, in key areas, the changes for successful development and growth capability of space nuclear reactor power systems for a wide range of future space applications. The elements of the CSTI High Capacity Power Project include Systems Analysis, Stirling Power Conversion, Thermoelectric Power Conversion, Thermal Management, Power Management, Systems Diagnostics, Environmental Interactions, and Material/Structural Development. Technology advancement in all elements is required to provide the growth capability, high reliability and 7 to 10 year lifetime demanded for future space nuclear power systems. The overall project with develop and demonstrate the technology base required to provide a wide range of modular power systems compatible with the SP-100 reactor which facilitates operation during lunar and planetary day/night cycles as well as allowing spacecraft operation at any attitude or distance from the sun. Significant accomplishments in all of the project elements will be presented, along with revised goals and project timelines recently developed.
Winter, J.; Dudenhoefer, J.; Juhasz, A.; Schwarze, G.; Patterson, R.; Ferguson, D.; Titran, R. [National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center; Schmitz, P. [Sverdrup Technology, Inc., Brook Park, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center Group; Vandersande, J. [Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA (United States)
Workshop Wrap Up Workshop Wrap Up * ORNL DAAC, MODIS Land Products Subsets Tools (MLPST) and Spatial Data Access Tool (SDAT) * SEDAC, Data Products and Terra Viva Data Viewer * GES DISC, GIOVANNI * LPDAAC, Products & Services * Affiliated Workshop: WK 13- How to Prepare Ecological Data Sets for Effective Analysis and Sharing http://eco.confex.com/eco/techprogram/S5744.HTM * Twelve EOSDIS Data Centers Jennifer Brennan, NASA EOSDIS Outreach Lead, firstname.lastname@example.com , Phone: 301-352-4628 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Tammy Walker Beaty 3 ORNL DAAC - MLPST and SDAT * ORNL DAAC for biogeochemical dynamics, http://daac.ornl.gov Mission: assemble, distribute, and provide data services for a comprehensive archive of terrestrial biogeochemistry and ecological dynamics observations and models to facilitate
City of Johnson City, Tennessee (Utility Company) | Open Energy Information
Johnson City City of Johnson City City of Place Tennessee Utility Id 9777 Utility Location Yes Ownership M NERC Location SERC NERC SERC Yes Activity Distribution Yes References EIA Form EIA-861 Final Data File for 2010 - File1_a[1] Energy Information Administration Form 826[2] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Utility Rate Schedules Grid-background.png GENERAL POWER RATE - GSA 1 - 1PH (Rate 440) Commercial GENERAL POWER RATE - GSA 1 - 3PH (Rate 440) Commercial GENERAL POWER RATE - GSA 2 (Rate 550) Commercial GENERAL POWER RATE - GSA 3 (Rate 554) Commercial RS Residential Rate 556 Seasonal - Over 5,000 KW Commercial SECURITY LIGHTS 100 WATT SODIUM VAPOR Lighting SECURITY LIGHTS 250 WATT SODIUM VAPOR Lighting
Kristina M. Johnson Kristina M. Johnson Under Secretary for Energy Designee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources April 23, 2009 Chairman Bingaman, Ranking Member Murkowski, and distinguished Members of the Committee, it is an honor and a privilege to appear before you today as President Obama's nominee for Under Secretary of Energy. I wish to thank President Obama for asking me to join his administration as Under Secretary for Energy in the Department of Energy (DOE), and Secretary Chu for his confidence in my appointment. If confirmed, I look forward to working with the Department of Energy team Secretary Chu is assembling to advance the President's plans to restore our economy, secure our energy future and reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. I am confident that the team you see here today will work together, tirelessly,
DR. KRISTINA M. JOHNSON DR. KRISTINA M. JOHNSON UNDER SECRETARY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE DECEMBER 8, 2009 2 Madam Chairman, Ranking Member Risch, and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss several draft energy bills. We deeply appreciate your interest in the views of the Department of Energy (The Department) on these bills. Over many years and many Administrations, the Department has enjoyed an open and productive relationship with this Committee, and those of us serving under President Obama certainly want to continue and strengthen that partnership. In recent years, Congress has made a very substantial and positive investment in clean
Johnson County Rural E M C | Open Energy Information
Johnson County Rural E M C Johnson County Rural E M C Place Indiana Utility Id 9778 Utility Location Yes Ownership C NERC Location RFC NERC RFC Yes ISO MISO Yes Activity Distribution Yes References EIA Form EIA-861 Final Data File for 2010 - File1_a[1] LinkedIn Connections CrunchBase Profile No CrunchBase profile. Create one now! This article is a stub. You can help OpenEI by expanding it. Utility Rate Schedules Grid-background.png Grain Dryer Service Commercial Large Power Service Industrial Large Power Time of Use Industrial Multi-Phase Commercial Service Commercial Net Metering Sevice Residential Outdoor Lighting: STN, Cobra Head, High Pressure Sodium, 400W Lighting Outdoor Lighting: STN, Directional Flood, Mercury Vapor / Metal Halide, 1000W Lighting Outdoor Lighting: STN, Directional Flood, Mercury Vapor / Metal Halide,
Johnson Noise Thermometry for Advanced Small Modular Reactors
Temperature is a key process variable at any nuclear power plant (NPP). The harsh reactor environment causes all sensor properties to drift over time. At the higher temperatures of advanced NPPs the drift occurs more rapidly. The allowable reactor operating temperature must be reduced by the amount of the potential measurement error to assure adequate margin to material damage. Johnson noise is a fundamental expression of temperature and as such is immune to drift in a sensor�s physical condition. In and near the core, only Johnson noise thermometry (JNT) and radiation pyrometry offer the possibility for long-term, high-accuracy temperature measurement due to their fundamental natures. Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) place a higher value on long-term stability in their temperature measurements in that they produce less power per reactor core and thus cannot afford as much instrument recalibration labor as their larger brethren. The purpose of the current ORNL-led project, conducted under the Instrumentation, Controls, and Human-Machine Interface (ICHMI) research pathway of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced SMR Research and Development (R&D) program, is to develop and demonstrate a drift free Johnson noise-based thermometer suitable for deployment near core in advanced SMR plants.
Britton, C.L.,Jr.; Roberts, M.; Bull, N.D.; Holcomb, D.E.; Wood, R.T.
Temperature is a key process variable at any nuclear power plant (NPP). The harsh reactor environment causes all sensor properties to drift over time. At the higher temperatures of advanced NPPs the drift occurs more rapidly. The allowable reactor operating temperature must be reduced by the amount of the potential measurement error to assure adequate margin to material damage. Johnson noise is a fundamental expression of temperature and as such is immune to drift in a sensor s physical condition. In and near core, only Johnson noise thermometry (JNT) and radiation pyrometry offer the possibility for long-term, high-accuracy temperature measurement due to their fundamental natures. Small, Modular Reactors (SMRs) place a higher value on long-term stability in their temperature measurements in that they produce less power per reactor core and thus cannot afford as much instrument recalibration labor as their larger brethren. The purpose of this project is to develop and demonstrate a drift free Johnson noise-based thermometer suitable for deployment near core in advanced SMR plants.
Britton Jr, Charles L [ORNL; Roberts, Michael [ORNL; Bull, Nora D [ORNL; Holcomb, David Eugene [ORNL; Wood, Richard Thomas [ORNL
NASA Land Validation Campaign Data
Products > Validation NASA Land Validation Campaign Data Land Validation Campaigns The goal of the EOS Validation Program is the comprehensive assessment of all EOS science data...
SPATIAL DATA ACCESS TOOL SPATIAL DATA ACCESS TOOL Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Services Bruce E. Wilson Suresh K. Santhana Vannan Yaxing Wei Tammy W. Beaty National Aeronautics and Space Administration www.nasa.gov National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2 Outline: * Introduction to SDAT * Introduction to OGC * OGC services at ORNL DAAC * Demo * OGC Service registration in metadata catalogues * Demo * Next steps ESA, August 2010 OGC Spatial Data Access Tool National Aeronautics and Space Administration 3 Introduction to SDAT SDAT - Spatial Data Access Tool ORNL DAAC has been charged with making spatial data readily available to users Spatial Data: remote sensing, map layers, and model output SDAT Features: * ORNL DAAC Web client to visualize and Download Geospatial data * Based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards
Summary Report on Information Technology Integration Activities For project to Enhance NASA Tools for Coastal Managers in the Gulf of Mexico and Support Technology Transfer to Mexico
Deliverable to NASA Stennis Space Center summarizing summarizes accomplishments made by Battelle and its subcontractors to integrate NASA's COAST visualization tool with the Noesis search tool developed under the Gulf of Mexico Regional Collaborative project.
Gulbransen, Thomas C.
High LET radiatSpace Radiation Can Enhance the TGFβ InducedEpithelial-Mesenchymal Transitionion can enhance TGFβ induced EMT and cross-talk with ATM pathways
Radiation Can Enhance the TGFβ Induced Radiation Can Enhance the TGFβ Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition Minli Wang 1 , Megumi Hada 1 , Janice Huff 1 , Janice M. Pluth 2 , Jennifer Anderson 3 , Peter O'Neill 3 and Francis A. Cucinotta 4 1 USRA Division of Life Sciences, Houston TX USA; 2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA, 3 Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology, University of Oxford, UK, 4 NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston TX, USA TGFβ is a key modulator of the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT), important in cancer progression and metastasis, which involve classic Smad or non-Smad signaling pathways, leading to the suppression of epithelial genes and promoted expression of mesenchymal proteins. Ionizing radiation was found to specifically induce expression of
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NASA NASA Dataset Summary Description (Abstract): Raster GIS ASCII data files of wind speed and wind power density at 10 and 50 m heights. Global data of offshore wind resource as generated by NASA's QuikSCAT SeaWinds scatterometer. (Purpose): To provide information on the wind resource potential of offshore areas. Source NREL Date Released December 31st, 2005 (8 years ago) Date Updated November 01st, 2007 (7 years ago) Keywords GEF GIS NASA NREL SWERA UNEP wind Data application/zip icon Download Maps (zip, 36.3 MiB) Quality Metrics Level of Review Some Review Comment Temporal and Spatial Coverage Frequency Time Period 2000 - 2004 License License Other or unspecified, see optional comment below Comment (Use Constraints): This GIS data was developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory ("NREL"), which is operated by the Midwest Research Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy ("DOE"). The user is granted the right, without any fee or cost, to use, copy, modify, alter, enhance and distribute this data for any purpose whatsoever, provided that this entire notice appears in all copies of the data. Further, the user of this data agrees to credit NREL in any publications or software that incorporate or use the data. Access to and use of the GIS data shall further impose the following obligations on the User. The names DOE/NREL may not be used in any advertising or publicity to endorse or promote any product or commercial entity using or incorporating the GIS data unless specific written authorization is obtained from DOE/NREL. The User also understands that DOE/NREL shall not be obligated to provide updates, support, consulting, training or assistance of any kind whatsoever with regard to the use of the GIS data. THE GIS DATA IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL DOE/NREL BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CLAIMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOSS OF DATA OR PROFITS, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM AN ACTION IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS CLAIM THAT ARISES OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACCESS OR USE OF THE GIS DATA. The User acknowledges that access to the GIS data is subject to U.S. Export laws and regulations and any use or transfer of the GIS data must be authorized under those regulations. The User shall not use, distribute, transfer, or transmit GIS data or any products incorporating the GIS data except in compliance with U.S. export regulations. If requested by DOE/NREL, the User agrees to sign written assurances and other export-related documentation as may be required to comply with U.S. export regulations.
TBZ-0104 In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson | Department of Energy
TBZ-0104 In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson TBZ-0104 In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson TBZ-0104 In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson This Decision will consider a Motion to Dismiss filed by B&W Pantex LLC (B&W), the Management and Operating Contractor for the Department of Energy's (DOE) Pantex Plant (Pantex), in connection with the pending Complaint of Retaliation filed by Hansford F. Johnson against B&W under the DOE's Contractor Employee Protection Program and its governing regulations set forth at 10 C.F.R. Part 708. The Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) assigned the hearing component of Mr. Johnson's Part 708 Complaint proceeding, Case No. TBH-0104, and B&W's Motion to Dismiss, Case No. TBZ-0104. For the reasons set forth below, I will grant B&W's Motion in part and dismiss Mr. Johnson's Complaint as to certain alleged
4 In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson 4 In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson TBZ-0104 In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson This Decision will consider a Motion to Dismiss filed by B&W Pantex LLC (B&W), the Management and Operating Contractor for the Department of Energy's (DOE) Pantex Plant (Pantex), in connection with the pending Complaint of Retaliation filed by Hansford F. Johnson against B&W under the DOE's Contractor Employee Protection Program and its governing regulations set forth at 10 C.F.R. Part 708. The Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) assigned the hearing component of Mr. Johnson's Part 708 Complaint proceeding, Case No. TBH-0104, and B&W's Motion to Dismiss, Case No. TBZ-0104. For the reasons set forth below, I will grant B&W's Motion in part and dismiss Mr. Johnson's Complaint as to certain alleged
Introduction3 Lead authors: Ralph A. Kahn, NASA GSFC; Hongbin Yu, NASA GSFC/UMBC4
Remer, NASA GSFC; David Rind, NASA6 GISS; Rangasayi Halthore, NASA HQ/NRL; Philip DeCola, NASA HQ7 8 with sulfur-containing gases29 produced by ocean biology and the decomposition of organic matter, as well
MERRA: NASA�s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications
The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) was undertaken by NASA�s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office with two primary objectives: to place observations from NASA�s Earth Observing System satellites into a ...
Michele M. Rienecker; Max J. Suarez; Ronald Gelaro; Ricardo Todling; Julio Bacmeister; Emily Liu; Michael G. Bosilovich; Siegfried D. Schubert; Lawrence Takacs; Gi-Kong Kim; Stephen Bloom; Junye Chen; Douglas Collins; Austin Conaty; Arlindo da Silva; Wei Gu; Joanna Joiner; Randal D. Koster; Robert Lucchesi; Andrea Molod; Tommy Owens; Steven Pawson; Philip Pegion; Christopher R. Redder; Rolf Reichle; Franklin R. Robertson; Albert G. Ruddick; Meta Sienkiewicz; Jack Woollen
Overview of NASA supported Stirling thermodynamic loss research
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is funding research to characterize Stirling machine thermodynamic losses. NASA`s primary goal is to improve Stirling design codes to support engine development for space and terrestrial power. However, much of the fundamental data is applicable to Stirling cooler and heat pump applications. The research results are reviewed. Much has been learned about oscillating-flow hydrodynamics, including laminar/turbulent transition, and tabulated data has been documented for further analysis. Now, with a better understanding of the oscillator-flow field, it is time to begin measuring the effects of oscillating flow and oscillating pressure level on heat transfer in heat exchanger flow passages and in cylinders. This critical phase of the work is just beginning.
Tew, R.C.; Geng, S.M.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
and Contracting Processes. Developing adequate cost estimates, managing program costs, and ensuring that NASA, simultaneously, developing the next generation of space vehicles. · Managing Risk to People, Equipment to address continued problems such as NASA's internal controls over property, plant, and equipment
Federal Energy Management Program: Regional Super ESPC Saves Energy and
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Modular Systems Biology applied to TGFbeta and DNA Damage Response...
Modular Systems Biology applied to TGFbeta and DNA Damage Response Signaling following Low Dose Radiation Francis Cucinotta NASA Johnson Space Center Abstract Modular systems...
Fracture Toughness Variations for Alloy 718 Base Metal and Welds
in the aerospace, nuclear, cryogenic and ...... Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 1974. Lorenz, P. M. ... Aluminum," NASA Report CR-100208, Jet Propulsion.
TBH-0104 - In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson | Department of Energy
4 - In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson 4 - In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson TBH-0104 - In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson This Initial Agency Decision involves a Complaint of Retaliation filed by Hansford F. Johnson against B&W Pantex LLC (B&W) under the DOE's Contractor Employee Protection Program and its governing regulations set forth at 10 C.F.R. Part 708. The complainant was an employee of B&W, the firm employed by DOE to manage and operate the Pantex Plant, where he was employed as a Program Manager, working as the plant energy manager until he retired on March 24, 2010. Mr. Johnson characterizes his retirement as a constructive discharge, alleging that he suffered harassment from his supervisor in the months preceding his retirement, and that this was in retaliation for activity protected under Part 708. For the reasons set
104 - In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson 104 - In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson TBH-0104 - In the Matter of Hansford F. Johnson This Initial Agency Decision involves a Complaint of Retaliation filed by Hansford F. Johnson against B&W Pantex LLC (B&W) under the DOE's Contractor Employee Protection Program and its governing regulations set forth at 10 C.F.R. Part 708. The complainant was an employee of B&W, the firm employed by DOE to manage and operate the Pantex Plant, where he was employed as a Program Manager, working as the plant energy manager until he retired on March 24, 2010. Mr. Johnson characterizes his retirement as a constructive discharge, alleging that he suffered harassment from his supervisor in the months preceding his retirement, and that this was in retaliation for activity protected under Part 708. For the reasons set
Page | 1 NASA Retrospective Plan Progress
's NEPA Library at http://www.nasa.gov/green/nepa. Since the previous major update) Progress updates and anticipated accomplishments Notes 1. NASA/Procurement AD60 NASA and Operations AD72 Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System NASA is revising appendix
Waliser, Duane E.
NASA Retrospective Plan Progress PENDING ACTIONS
be updated to provide current data. It explains the authority for the creation of the National Aeronautics Library at http://www.nasa.gov/green/nepa. Since the previous major update of NASA's NEPA regulation) Progress updates and anticipated accomplishments Notes 1. NASA/Procurement AD60 NASA Grant and Cooperative
Exhaust-gas measurements from NASAs HYMETS arc jet.
Arc-jet wind tunnels produce conditions simulating high-altitude hypersonic flight such as occurs upon entry of space craft into planetary atmospheres. They have traditionally been used to study flight in Earth's atmosphere, which consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. NASA is presently using arc jets to study entry into Mars' atmosphere, which consists of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. In both cases, a wide variety of chemical reactions take place among the gas constituents and with test articles placed in the flow. In support of those studies, we made measurements using a residual gas analyzer (RGA) that sampled the exhaust stream of a NASA arc jet. The experiments were conducted at the HYMETS arc jet (Hypersonic Materials Environmental Test System) located at the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA. This report describes our RGA measurements, which are intended to be used for model validation in combination with similar measurements on other systems.
Miller, Paul Albert
DOE Challenge Home Case Study, Caldwell and Johnson, Exeter, RI
Caldwell and Caldwell and Johnson Exeter, RI BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES OFFICE DOE Challenge Home builders are in the top 1% of builders in the country meeting the extraordinary levels of excellence and quality specifi ed by the U.S. Department of Energy. Every DOE Challenge Home starts with ENERGY STAR for Homes Version 3 for an energy-e cient home built on a solid foundation of building science research. Then, even more advanced technologies are designed in for a home that goes above and beyond current code to give you the superior quality construction, HVAC, appliances, indoor air quality, safety, durability, comfort, and solar-ready components along with ultra-low or no utility bills. This provides homeowners with a quality home that will last for generations to come.
CRC handbook of NASA future missions and payloads
The author presents a detailed and quantitative description of all of the programs, systems, sensors and experiments associated with the next 30 years of space endeavors by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Derived from the fifth issue of the NASA Space Systems Technology Model, the missions and payloads are categorized by applications area: solar system exploration, astrophysics, earth sciences, communications, space transportation and utilization of the space environment. Far-term missions are described as opportunity missions and landmark missions, for the distant future. Technology requirements are collected by discipline: power, propulsion, materials, structures, information systems, navigation, guidance and control. Payload technology requirements are organized by instrument sensing range. This information defines in quantitative terms, the opportunities and limits for future civilian space system capabilities.
Hord, M.
Johnson Creek Artificial Propagation and Enhancement Project Operations and Maintenance Program; Brood Year 1998: Johnson Creek Chinook Salmon Supplementation, Biennial Report 1998-2000.
The Nez Perce Tribe, through funding provided by the Bonneville Power Administration, has implemented a small scale chinook salmon supplementation program on Johnson Creek, a tributary in the South Fork of the Salmon River, Idaho. The Johnson Creek Artificial Propagation Enhancement project was established to enhance the number of threatened Snake River summer chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) returning to Johnson Creek through artificial propagation. Adult chinook salmon collection and spawning began in 1998. A total of 114 fish were collected from Johnson Creek and 54 fish (20 males and 34 females) were retained for Broodstock. All broodstock were transported to Lower Snake River Compensation Plan's South Fork Salmon River adult holding and spawning facility, operated by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The remaining 60 fish were released to spawn naturally. An estimated 155,870 eggs from Johnson Creek chinook spawned at the South Fork Salmon River facility were transported to the McCall Fish Hatchery for rearing. Average fecundity for Johnson Creek females was 4,871. Approximately 20,500 eggs from females with high levels of Bacterial Kidney Disease were culled. This, combined with green-egg to eyed-egg survival of 62%, resulted in about 84,000 eyed eggs produced in 1998. Resulting juveniles were reared indoors at the McCall Fish Hatchery in 1999. All of these fish were marked with Coded Wire Tags and Visual Implant Elastomer tags and 8,043 were also PIT tagged. A total of 78,950 smolts were transported from the McCall Fish Hatchery and released directly into Johnson Creek on March 27, 28, 29, and 30, 2000.
Daniel, Mitch; Gebhards, John
Roaming Mars and Space: 3D Technology Exploration from Home ...
Rocket Science: EM Employee Eagerly Examines Curiosity, Continuing Decades-Long Role in Space Missions across Solar System Curiosity, left, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
Students experiment in simulated space-flight conditions
TiNg BoNE LoSS FELLowShip wiNNERS Four geology graduate students win prestigious NASA Fellowships S o u r Geology graduate students awarded prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships [9] Detecting Bone Loss NASA-funded research at ASU looks to isotope analysis rather than X-ray for measurement My
Shumway, John
Brood Year 2004: Johnson Creek Chinook Salmon Supplementation Report, June 2004 through March 2006.
The Nez Perce Tribe, through funding provided by the Bonneville Power Administration, has implemented a small scale chinook salmon supplementation program on Johnson Creek, a tributary in the South Fork of the Salmon River, Idaho. The Johnson Creek Artificial Propagation Enhancement project was established to enhance the number of threatened Snake River spring/summer chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) returning to Johnson Creek to spawn through artificial propagation. This was the sixth season of adult chinook broodstock collection in Johnson Creek following collections in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. Weir installation was completed on June 21, 2004 with the first chinook captured on June 22, 2004 and the last fish captured on September 6, 2004. The weir was removed on September 18, 2004. A total of 338 adult chinook, including jacks, were captured during the season. Of these, 211 were of natural origin, 111 were hatchery origin Johnson Creek supplementation fish, and 16 were adipose fin clipped fish from other hatchery operations and therefore strays into Johnson Creek. Over the course of the run, 57 natural origin Johnson Creek adult chinook were retained for broodstock, transported to the South Fork Salmon River adult holding and spawning facility and held until spawned. The remaining natural origin Johnson Creek fish along with all the Johnson Creek supplementation fish were released upstream of the weir to spawn naturally. Twenty-seven Johnson Creek females were artificially spawned with 25 Johnson Creek males. Four females were diagnosed with high bacterial kidney disease levels resulting in their eggs being culled. The 27 females produced 116,598 green eggs, 16,531 green eggs were culled, with an average eye-up rate of 90.6% resulting in 90,647 eyed eggs. Juvenile fish were reared indoors at the McCall Fish Hatchery until November 2005 and then transferred to the outdoor rearing facilities during the Visual Implant Elastomer tagging operation. These fish continued rearing in the outdoor collection basin until release in March 2006. All of these fish were marked with Coded Wire Tags and Visual Implant Elastomer tags. In addition 12,056 of the smolts released were also tagged with Passive Integrated Transponder tags. Hand counts provided by marking crews were used to amend the number of juvenile salmon released from the original egg count. A total of 90,450 smolts were released directly into Johnson Creek on March 13 through 15, 2006.
Gebhards, John S.; Hill, Robert; Daniel, Mitch [Nez Perce Tribe
Calibration of Johnson�Williams and PMS ASSP Probes in a Wind Tunnel
Wet wind tunnel tests have provided calibrations and intercomparisons of the LAMP's cloud liquid water content probes (three Johnson�Williams sensor heads and one PMS ASSP). The tunnel liquid water content was deduced with a rotating cyclinder ...
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Calibrations of Johnson-Williams Liquid Water Content Meters in a High-Speed Icing Tunnel
Wind tunnel tests have provided calibrations and intercomparisons of 14 Johnson-Williams (J�W) cloud liquid water content (LWC) measuring devices with 23 sensor heads from 10 research organizations. The absolute tunnel LWC was deduced using a ...
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Faces of the Recovery Act: Johnson Controls Inc. | Department of Energy
Johnson Controls Inc. Johnson Controls Inc. Faces of the Recovery Act: Johnson Controls Inc. Addthis Description Thanks in part to a $300 million grant through the Recovery Act, Johnson Controls is re-opening a plant in Holland, Michigan that is now being retrofitted to produce batteries that will power tomorrow's electric cars. Speakers Elizabeth Rolinski, Ray Shemanski, Duration 3:56 Topic Batteries Recovery Act Energy Sector Jobs Grants Credit Energy Department Video ELIZABETH ROLINSKI: I was in this plant when it first started up. I was plant manager here many years ago and then, unfortunately, when it came time to close the plant, also did that plant announcement. It's a team I knew very well, a team I was with for a lot of years. So when the time came and the decision was made to close the plant, it was a very emotional
1Electricity from Sunlight: The RBSP Spacecraft Solar Panels NASA's twin Radiation Belts Storm Probe (RBSP) spacecraft will be
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Laboratory Astrophysics White Paper (based on the 2010 NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop in Gatlinberg, Tennessee, 25-28 October 2010)
The purpose of the 2010 NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop (LAW) was, as given in the Charter from NASA, "to provide a forum within which the scientific community can review the current state of knowledge in the field of Laboratory Astrophysics, assess the critical data needs of NASA's current and future Space Astrophysics missions, and identify the challenges and opportunities facing the field as we begin a new decade". LAW 2010 was the fourth in a roughly quadrennial series of such workshops sponsored by the Astrophysics Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate. In this White Paper, we report the findings of the workshop.
Savin, Daniel Wolf; Federman, Steve; Goldsmith, Paul; Kilbourne, Caroline; Oberg, Karin; Schultz, David; Weaver, Susanna Widicus; Ji, Hantao; Remington, Bruce
Proceedings of the NASA/MIT Workshop on Airline Systems Analysis, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, July 10-21, 1972
Introduction: The recent renaming of the NASA Office of Advanced Research band Technology as the Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology emphasizes the new stress being placed on aeronautical research by the Federal ...
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Using standard Internet Protocols and applications in space
This paper discusses approaches for using standard Internet technologies to meet the communication needs of future space missions. It summarizes work done by the Operating Missions as Nodes on the Internet (OMNI) project at NASA/GSFC since 1997. That ... Keywords: Internet in space, Internet space missions, Space communication protocols, Space shuttle STS-107, Spacecraft networking
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UESC Project Overview: NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center NASA Ames Research Center Utility Energy Services Contract Project Overview Federal Utilities Partnership Working Group Philadelphia, PA October 2011 NASA Ames Research Center Utility Energy Services Contract 2 Today's Discussion * NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) Energy Challenges * UESC Project Goals * Energy and Water Conservation Projects * Project Benefits and Results * Q&A NASA Ames Research Center Utility Energy Services Contract 3 NASA's Energy Challenges * Compliance with federal mandates - EISA, EPAct, Executive Orders (prior to UESC ARC was behind all of its goals) * Very low electric cost (<$0.05/kWh) * Not eligible for electric incentives through local utility (ARC purchases power from WAPA) * Aging mechanical and electrical infrastructure requiring significant
Johnson Creek Artificial Propagation and Enhancement Project Operations and Maintenance Program; Brood Year 2000: Johnson Creek Chinook Salmon Supplementation, Biennial Report 2000-2002.
The Nez Perce Tribe, through funding provided by the Bonneville Power Administration, has implemented a small scale chinook salmon supplementation program on Johnson Creek, a tributary in the South Fork of the Salmon River, Idaho. The Johnson Creek Artificial Propagation Enhancement project was established to enhance the number of threatened Snake River summer chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) returning to Johnson Creek through artificial propagation. Adult chinook salmon trapping, broodstock selection, and spawning was first implemented in 1998, did not occur in 1999, and was resumed in 2000. A total of 152 salmon were trapped in Johnson Creek in 2000, of which 73 (25 males, 16 females, and 32 jacks) fish were transported to Idaho Fish and Game=s South Fork Salmon River adult holding and spawning facility for artificial propagation purposes. The remaining 79 (29 males, 16 females, and 24 jacks) fish were released above the weir to spawn naturally. A total of 65,060 green eggs were taken from 16 female salmon and transported to the McCall Fish Hatchery for incubation and rearing. Egg counts indicated an average eye-up rate of 86.0% for 55,971 eyed eggs. Average fecundity for Johnson Creek females was 4,066 eggs per female. Juvenile fish were reared indoors at the McCall Fish Hatchery through November 2001. These fish were transferred to outdoor rearing facilities in December 2001 where they remained until release in March 2002. All of these fish were marked with Coded Wire Tags and Visual Implant Elastomer tags. In addition 9,987 were also PIT tagged. Hand counts provided by marking crews were used to amend the number of juvenile salmon released from the original egg count. A total of 57,392 smolts were released into a temporary acclimation channel in Johnson Creek on March 18, 19, 20, 2002. These fish were held in this facility until a fish screen was removed on March 22, 2002 and the fish were allowed to emigrate.
Daniel, Mitch; Gebhards, John; Hill, Robert
Veolia and Johnson Controls Get the Job Done with Clean, Fuel Efficient
Veolia and Johnson Controls Get the Job Done with Clean, Fuel Veolia and Johnson Controls Get the Job Done with Clean, Fuel Efficient Fleets Veolia and Johnson Controls Get the Job Done with Clean, Fuel Efficient Fleets March 9, 2012 - 2:15pm Addthis With their presence in almost every neighborhood and community, refuse trucks, like the one shown above, can benefit from alternative fuels and advanced technology. | Photo courtesy of Veolia Environmental Services. With their presence in almost every neighborhood and community, refuse trucks, like the one shown above, can benefit from alternative fuels and advanced technology. | Photo courtesy of Veolia Environmental Services. Shannon Brescher Shea Communications Manager, Clean Cities Program What are the key facts? Veolia operates four compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations
Feasibility Study of Economics and Performance of Solar Photovoltaics at Johnson County Landfill
Johnson Johnson County Landfill James Salasovich and Gail Mosey Technical Report NREL/TP-6A20-53186 January 2012 NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, Colorado 80401 303-275-3000 * www.nrel.gov Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308 Feasibility Study of Economics and Performance of Solar Photovoltaics at Johnson County Landfill James Salasovich and Gail Mosey Prepared under Task No. IGST.1100 Technical Report NREL/TP-6A20-53186 January 2012 NOTICE This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States government.
Dr. Kristina M. Johnson Dr. Kristina M. Johnson Under Secretary of Energy U.S. Department of Energy Before the Committee on the Budget U.S. House of Representatives July 27, 2010 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, my name is Kristina M. Johnson, Under Secretary of Energy. I appreciate the invitation to appear before the Committee to discuss issues surrounding the Government's responsibility for the safe management and disposition of nuclear waste. The Department remains committed to meeting its obligations for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. To that end, the Secretary, at the direction of the President, has established a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future chaired by former Congressman Lee Hamilton and General Brent Scowcroft. The
Program Overview Shane Johnson Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology
Program Overview Program Overview Shane Johnson Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology April 15, 2002 Presentation to the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology Johnson/April15_02 NP 2010 to NERAC.ppt 2 Nuclear Power 2010 Overview Nuclear Power 2010 Overview Goals 6 Orders for one or more new nuclear plants by 2005 6 Operation of new nuclear power plants by 2010 6 New program initiative unveiled February 2002 6 Based on Near-Term Deployment Roadmap 6 Public/private partnership to: ! Develop advanced reactor technologies ! Explore sites that could host new nuclear power plants ! Demonstrate new Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulatory processes Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology Johnson/April15_02 NP 2010 to NERAC.ppt 3
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Lorrie Johnson Lorrie Johnson Lorrie Johnson's picture Senior Librarian OSTI program liaison, Operating Agent representative for WorldWideScience.org Now Playing on ScienceCinema. . . ScienceCinema Published on Jun 27, 2013 Looking for a good summer movie? Over 600 new videos have been added to ScienceCinema recently. Learn more about the Higgs Boson, and what it means for the universe, in "Unraveling the Higgs Boson Discovery". Or, watch "Breakthrough: Using Microbes to Make Advanced Biofuels" to learn how the Joint BioEnergy Institute is using microbes to convert non-food crops and agricultural waste into fuels for cars, trucks, and planes. Interested in harnessing the sun's power? Read more... WorldWideScience - Easy Access to Text, Multimedia, and Data!
NASA GISS Surface Temperature (GISTEMP) Analysis: Graphics
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NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research | U.S. DOE Office of
8 » NASA and DOE 8 » NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research News Featured Articles 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 Science Headlines Presentations & Testimony News Archives Contact Information Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20585 P: (202) 586-5430 11.19.08 NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research Print Text Size: A A A Subscribe FeedbackShare Page WASHINGTON, DC -- NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the Joint Dark Energy Mission, or JDEM. The mission will feature the first space-based observatory designed specifically to understand the nature of dark energy. Dark energy is a form of energy that pervades and dominates the universe.
NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research | Department of Energy
NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research November 19, 2008 - 4:58pm Addthis WASHINGTON, DC -- NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the Joint Dark Energy Mission, or JDEM. The mission will feature the first space-based observatory designed specifically to understand the nature of dark energy. Dark energy is a form of energy that pervades and dominates the universe. The mission will measure with high precision the universe's expansion rate and growth structure. Data from the mission could help scientists determine the properties of dark energy, fundamentally advancing physics and astronomy. "Understanding the nature of dark energy is the biggest challenge in
Hard-X-Ray Optics Development at Marshall Space Flight Center
This paper summarizes the current status of the development of hard-X-ray optics using nickel replication at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Brian D. Ramsey; Martin C. Weisskopf
NASA Web Site Privacy and Important Notices
NASA Web Privacy Policy NASA Web Privacy Policy Thank you for visiting NASA and reviewing our policy notices. We have integrated these statements into a single posting for ease of use. The following links will help you navigate to a specific section: Privacy Policy Security Notice Accessibility Statement Linking Policy and Disclaimer of Endorsement Privacy Policy This notice provides NASA's policy regarding the nature, purpose, use and sharing of any information collected via this Web site. The information you provide on a NASA Web site will be used only for its intended purpose. We will protect your information consistent with the principles of the Privacy Act, the e-Government act of 2002, the Federal Records Act, and as applicable, the Freedom of Information Act. Submitting information is strictly voluntary. By doing so, you are giving
DOE Technology Helps NASA Seek "New Horizons" | Department of Energy
Technology Helps NASA Seek "New Horizons" Technology Helps NASA Seek "New Horizons" DOE Technology Helps NASA Seek "New Horizons" January 19, 2006 - 10:51am Addthis WASHINGTON, D.C.-The New Horizons spacecraft, powered by deep space battery technology developed by the Department of Energy's national laboratories, was successfully launched today from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a 9-1/2 year journey to explore Pluto and its moons. The spacecraft will receive heat and electricity from a long-lasting plutonium-238 powered generator developed and assembled by scientists and engineers at the Idaho, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories. "This is an amazing mission when you think about the time, distance and harsh environment that the spacecraft will encounter," said Secretary of
National Aeronautics and Space Administration SpaceMathVI
data. The problems were designed to be `one-pagers' with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second;Answer Key Problem 1 - How many atoms of hydrogen (H), carbon (C) and oxygen (O) are contained the planets be after 6 years? Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;2Answer Key Problem 1 - Students
Radiation effects on the surfaces of the Galilean satellites R. E. Johnson
;484 Johnson et al. rial "painted on" by the energetic jovian particles and me- teoroids. At Europa, it is also are profoundly weathered by jovian charged particle and solar ultraviolet (UV) irradi- ation. Although early observations of the Galilean satellites suggested that their reflectance spectra were modified by en- ergetic
Johnson, Robert E.
February 1992 R. H. Johnson 353 Heat and Moisture Sources and Sinks of Asian Monsoon
February 1992 R. H. Johnson 353 Heat and Moisture Sources and Sinks of Asian Monsoon Precipitating The structure and properties of ,heat and moisture sources and sinks of the Asian monsoon are reviewed. Results by the Asian monsoon, with the detailed structure of this distribution determined in large part by a wide
Johnson, Richard H.
DIESEL AEROSOL SAMPLING IN THE David Kittelson, Jason Johnson, and Winthrop Watts
chemical composition of diesel particulate matter collected in laboratory and in wind tunnel #12;In OrderDIESEL AEROSOL SAMPLING IN THE ATMOSPHERE David Kittelson, Jason Johnson, and Winthrop Watts Center for Diesel Research University of Minnesota 10th CRC ON-ROAD VEHICLE EMISSIONS WORKSHOP San Diego, California
Minnesota, University of
Baroclinic Development in Observations and NASA GSFC General Circulation Models
Comparative diagnostic analyses of developing synoptic-scale baroclinic disturbances in NCEP�NCAR reanalyses and the NASA�NCAR (NASCAR) and Aries [NASA�s Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project (NSIPP)] general circulation model simulations ...
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64The Mathematics of Ion Rocket Engines Believe it or not, NASA
, in watts, defined by Power = Voltage x Amperage? Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;64Answer Key speed in an electric field - The kinetic energy of a particle is given by K.E. = 1/2 mv 2 . The energy). Problem 4 - Charged particle flows produce electrical currents - If each particle carries exactly one unit
Live From Outer Space
Live from Outer Space: How Cells Influence the Growth of Nanostructures Live from Outer Space: How Cells Influence the Growth of Nanostructures Far above the heads of Earthlings, arrays of single-cell creatures embedded in nanostructures ride on the International Space Station (courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force) to test whether nanostructures whose formations were directed by yeast and other single cells can create more secure homes for their occupants-even in the vacuum and radiation of outer space-than those created by more standard chemical procedures. Cheap, tiny, and very lightweight sensors of chemical or biological agents could be made from long-lived cells that require no upkeep, yet sense and then communicate effectively with each other and their external
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory - NASA's WISE Mission Sees...
from NASA Pasadena, Calif. - Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars, thanks to data collected by NASA's...
ORNL NASA DAAC Announces Advanced Search
New Release of Mercury Advanced Search Tool The ORNL NASA DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the new version of our Mercury Advanced Search tool. Mercury is a...
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to be `one-pagers' with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second page. This compact form was deemed very in kilometers? Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;Answer Key 1 Problem 1 - A digital camera created://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;Answer Key 1 Problem 1 - Suppose that the camera was photographing a bright daytime scene
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-pagers' with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second page. This compact form was deemed very popular? Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;1Answer Key Problem 1 - A tsunami wave travels at 150://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;2Answer Key Top wave train - Measure the distance between two consecutive troughs on the front
Volume 1 Issue 4 www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis April 2006 SSC marks 40th anniversary of first engine test
-rattling roar that swept southern Mississippi and Louisiana into the Space Age. That roar was the sound of the first rocket engine static test-firing on the A-2 Test Stand at what is now NASA's John C. Stennis Space the huge rocket engines. Mississippi's influential Sen. John C. Stennis, for whom Stennis Space Center
Solar production of industrial process steam. Phase III. Operation and evaluation of the Johnson and Johnson solar facility. Final report, January 1, 1980-March 31, 1981
A solar facility that generates 177/sup 0/C (350/sup 0/F) process steam has been designed and constructed by Acurex Corporation and has operated for 1 yr supplying steam to the Johnson and Johnson manufacturing plant in Sherman, Texas. The facility consists of 1068 m/sup 2/ (11,520 ft/sup 2/) of parabolic trough concentrating collectors, a 18,900 1 (5000 gal) flash boiler, and an 18.6 kW (25 hp) circulating pump. In the first year of operation the system was available 97 percent of the days, and with sufficient solar radiation available it operated 70 percent of the days during this period. The measured data showed that the collector field operated at an efficiency of 25.4 percent for the year, and that at least 75 percent of the energy reaching the flash boiler was delivered to the plant as steam. A total of 309,510 kg (682,400 lb) of steam was produced by the solar facility for the first year. An analysis of the data showed that the delivered energy was within 90 to 100 percent of the predicted value. The successful completion of the first year of operation has demonstrated the technical feasibility of generating industrial process steam with solar energy.
Brink, D.F.; Kendall, J.M.; Youngblood, S.B.
R. Shane Johnson R. Shane Johnson Chief Operating Officer for Nuclear Energy U.S. Department of Energy before the Subcommittee on Energy Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on S. 3233, the Surplus Uranium Disposition Act of 2010 June 15, 2010 Introduction Thank you, Madam Chairman, Ranking Member Risch, and Members of the Subcommittee. I appreciate this opportunity to appear before you and comment on legislation under consideration by the Committee, as well as to provide information on the Department of Energy's management and disposition of its excess uranium. The Administration continues to view nuclear power as an important element in its strategy to increase energy security and combat climate change. A strong domestic nuclear industry supports the expansion of clean, carbon-free nuclear energy in the
8Systems of Equations in Space Science Solving a system of three equations in three unknowns
. Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;8 Answer Key: Space Math http, in each category (C, M and X) in units of mFU. Communications satellites use electrical devices called
Transformation from SDSS Photometric System to Johnson-Morgan-Cousins System in HK Survey
We calculate the transformation from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric system to the Johnson-Morgan-Cousins System in the HK Survey. This research was done in late 2001, so the SDSS photometry was taken from the database prior to the release of DR1. This paper is being posted because it is referenced in other papers in the literature, but will not be submitted to a refereed journal because it uses unpublished versions of the catalogs.
Chongshan Zhao; Heidi Jo Newberg
Space Power Systems | Department of Energy
Reactor Technologies » Space Power Systems Reactor Technologies » Space Power Systems Space Power Systems Through a strong partnership between the Energy Department's office of Nuclear Energy and NASA, Radioisotope Power Systems have been providing the energy for deep space exploration. Through a strong partnership between the Energy Department's office of Nuclear Energy and NASA, Radioisotope Power Systems have been providing the energy for deep space exploration. The Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessors have provided radioisotope power systems that have safely enabled deep space exploration and national security missions for five decades. Radioisotope power systems (RPSs) convert the heat from the decay of the radioactive isotope plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity. RPSs are capable of producing heat and electricity under the harsh conditions
Software Construction and Analysis Tools for Future Space Missions
NASA and its international partners will increasingly depend on software-based systems to implement advanced functions for future space missions, such as Martian rovers that autonomously navigate long distances exploring geographic features formed by ...
Michael R. Lowry
Objective performance metrics for improved space telerobotics training
NASA astronauts undergo many hours of formal training and self-study to gain proficiency in space teleoperation tasks. After each lesson, instructors score an astronaut's performance in several broad skill categories, ...
Forman, Rachel Emily
SPRE I Free-Piston Stirling Engine Testing at NASA Lewis Research Center
As part of the NASA funded portion of the SP-100 Advanced Technology Program the Space Power Research Engine (SPRE I) was designed and built to serve as a research tool for evaluation and development of advanced Stirling engine concepts. The SPRE I is designed to produce 12.5 kW electrical power when operated with helium at 15 MPa and with an absolute temperature ratio of two. The engine is now under test in a new test facility which was designed and built at NASA LeRC specifically to test the SPRE I. This paper describes the SPRE I, the NASA test facility, the initial SPRE I test results, and future SPRE I test plans.
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THE SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION M. W. Werner,1
with a cryogenic telescope in space with the great imaging and spectroscopic power of modern detector arraysTHE SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION M. W. Werner,1 T. L. Roellig,2 F. J. Low,3 G. H. Rieke,3 M2 Receivved 2004 March 26; accepted 2004 May 26 ABSTRACT The Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA's Great
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Acceptability of risk from radiation: Application to human space flight
This one of NASA`s sponsored activities of the NCRP. In 1983, NASA asked NCRP to examine radiation risks in space and to make recommendations about career radiation limits for astronauts (with cancer considered as the principal risk). In conjunction with that effort, NCRP was asked to convene this symposium; objective is to examine the technical, strategic, and philosophical issues pertaining to acceptable risk and radiation in space. Nine papers are included together with panel discussions and a summary. Selected papers are indexed separately for inclusion in the Energy Science and Technology Database.
Within 17 light years 6-8 29 Our Neighborhood in the Milky Way 6-8 30 Calculating Arc Lengths of Simple By Page Grade Page Why are hot things red? 11-12 36 Collapsing Gas Clouds - Stability 11-12 37 The Big-8 43 Stellar Temperature, Size and Power 10-12 44 Fuel Level in a Spherical Tank 12 45 The Mass
reporting requirements including the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, and the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996. NASA's FY 2010 PAR-up actions on the Inspector General's audits, an Improper Payments Information Act assessment, a summary
Remarks by Charles Bolden NASA Administrator
's Vision states in part: "To understand and protect our home planet, to explore the Universe and search for life, and to inspire the next generation of explorers... as only NASA can". Our Mission Statement robotic rovers on the distant planet, Mars, as a precursor to some day delivering humans to our
NASA Glenn Research Center | Open Energy Information
NASA Glenn Research Center NASA Glenn Research Center Jump to: navigation, search Name NASA Glenn Research Center Address 21000 Brookpark Rd. Place Cleveland, Ohio Zip 44135 Sector Biofuels, Carbon, Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind energy Product Research and development Phone number 216-977-7135 Website http://www.nasa.gov/centers/gl Coordinates 41.418747°, -81.854496° Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","type":"ROADMAP","zoom":14,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"geoservice":"google","maxzoom":false,"width":"600px","height":"350px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"wmsoverlay":"","layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"kml":[],"gkml":[],"fusiontables":[],"resizable":false,"tilt":0,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"imageoverlays":[],"markercluster":false,"searchmarkers":"","locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":null,"lat":41.418747,"lon":-81.854496,"alt":0,"address":"","icon":"","group":"","inlineLabel":"","visitedicon":""}]}
Negotiating the paradoxes of poverty: presidential rhetoric on welfare from Johnson to Clinton
This project examines how Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton discussed issues of poverty and welfare from Johnson?s declaration of War on Poverty in 1964 to Clinton?s signing of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996. I argue that there are four critical tensions relevant to the debate concerning contemporary poverty in the United States?politics vs. policy, deserving vs. undeserving, help vs. hinder, and equality vs. freedom?and the key to improving the manner in which the nation confronts the problem of poverty requires understanding and negotiating these tensions. The analysis reveals that the five presidents had a mixed but overall rather poor record in confronting the four paradoxes. In general they tended either to avoid the tensions altogether, or fall to one or the other extreme. That being said, the analysis also reveals that there is considerable common ground concerning some critical issues between all the presidents, whether they were Democrats or Republicans, ideologically moderate or more partisan. Foremost among these are the beliefs that equal opportunity should be the overarching ideal, work should be rewarded well, and those that cannot help themselves should be supported as generously as possible by the government. I conclude that the 1996 law, while based in part on questionable assumptions concerning the condition of the poor, could lead to a significant re-framing of the debate away from the generally unpopular focus on welfare and welfare recipients and toward the working poor and the conditions and difficulties under which they labor, which could potentially lead to other positive transformations beneficial to the American poor.
Carcasson, Martin
Forest inventory: Peter T. Johnson Wildlife Mitigation Unit, Craig Mountain, Idaho. Final Report.
The primary objective of this report is to determine the quantity and quality of existing forest habitat types on the 59,991-acre Peter T. Johnson Wildlife Mitigation Unit (WMU). Products from this effort include a description of the ecological condition, a map of habitat types, and an inventory of forest resources on the WMU lands. The purpose of this and other resource inventories (plant and wildlife) is to assess the current resources condition of the WMU and to provide necessary information to generate a long-term management for this area.
Narolski, Steven W.
Investigation of Integrated Subsurface Processing of Landfill Gas and Carbon Sequestration, Johnson County, Kansas
The Johnson County Landfill in Shawnee, KS is operated by Deffenbaugh Industries and serves much of metropolitan Kansas City. Refuse, which is dumped in large plastic-underlined trash cells covering several acres, is covered over with shale shortly after burial. The landfill waste, once it fills the cell, is then drilled by Kansas City LFG, so that the gas generated by anaerobic decomposition of the refuse can be harvested. Production of raw landfill gas from the Johnson County landfill comes from 150 wells. Daily production is approximately 2.2 to 2.5 mmcf, of which approximately 50% is methane and 50% is carbon dioxide and NMVOCs (non-methane volatile organic compounds). Heating value is approximately 550 BTU/scf. A upgrading plant, utilizing an amine process, rejects the carbon dioxide and NMVOCs, and upgrades the gas to pipeline quality (i.e., nominally a heating value >950 BTU/scf). The gas is sold to a pipeline adjacent to the landfill. With coal-bearing strata underlying the landfill, and carbon dioxide a major effluent gas derived from the upgrading process, the Johnson County Landfill is potentially an ideal setting to study the feasibility of injecting the effluent gas in the coals for both enhanced coalbed methane recovery and carbon sequestration. To these ends, coals below the landfill were cored and then were analyzed for their thickness and sorbed gas content, which ranged up to 79 scf/ton. Assuming 1 1/2 square miles of land (960 acres) at the Johnson County Landfill can be utilized for coalbed and shale gas recovery, the total amount of in-place gas calculates to 946,200 mcf, or 946.2 mmcf, or 0.95 bcf (i.e., 985.6 mcf/acre X 960 acres). Assuming that carbon dioxide can be imbibed by the coals and shales on a 2:1 ratio compared to the gas that was originally present, then 1682 to 1720 days (4.6 to 4.7 years) of landfill carbon dioxide production can be sequestered by the coals and shales immediately under the landfill. Three coal--the Bevier, Fleming, and Mulberry coals--are the major coals of sufficient thickness (nominally >1-foot) that can imbibe carbon dioxide gas with an enhanced coalbed injection. Comparison of the adsorption gas content of coals to the gas desorbed from the coals shows that the degree of saturation decreases with depth for the coals.
K. David Newell; Timothy R. Carr
Stephen Johnson
MS 90-3111 Berkeley CA 94720 (510) 486-4274 firstname.lastname@example.com This Speaker's Seminars 20 Years in the Lighting Business: from Plasma Physics to Compact Fluorescent Lamps in China...
Ward Johnson
... laser ultrasonics, and Brillouin light scattering. Professional Affiliations. International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). ...
NASA's Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) Field Experiment
In August�September 2010, NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) conducted separate but closely coordinated hurricane field campaigns, bringing to bear a combined seven aircraft with both new and mature observing technologies. NASA's ...
Scott A. Braun; Ramesh Kakar; Edward Zipser; Gerald Heymsfield; Cerese Albers; Shannon Brown; Stephen L. Durden; Stephen Guimond; Jeffery Halverson; Andrew Heymsfield; Syed Ismail; Bjorn Lambrigtsen; Timothy Miller; Simone Tanelli; Janel Thomas; Jon Zawislak
NASA BENCHMARKS COMMUNICATIONS Assessment Plan NNSA/Nevada Site...
Assessment Plan NNSANevada Site Office Facility Representative Division NASA BENCHMARKS COMMUNICATIONS Assessment Plan NNSANevada Site Office Facility Representative...
NASA Glenn Research Center Acoustical Testing Laboratory: Five year retrospective
In the five years since the NASA Glenn Research Center Acoustical Testing Laboratory (ATL) opened its doors in September
Lessons Learned from Continuous Commissioning of the Robert E. Johnson State Office Building, Austin, TX
The Robert E. Johnson State Office building is a 5-story, 303,389 square foot office building built in 2000 located in downtown Austin, TX. The original building design included a number of energy conservation measures that were incorporated into the final construction. During the investigation of the building, four energy conservation measures were identified, three of which deal with conventional HVAC systems. The fourth is related to the currently unutilized daylighting system which was one of the energy conservation measures of the original building design. Utilizing this system would lead to approximately 18.5% annual lighting energy savings or 5.6% annual whole building energy savings based on a DOE-2 simulation analysis. Three main lessons were learned from the experience with the Robert E. Johnson building: � The traditional design-construction-operation team must include the energy conservation analysis team � The entire building process should be reorganized to assure that complete information is provided and passed on from the energy conservation analysis team � High performance buildings should be continuously monitored and analyzed
Bynum, J.; Claridge, D. E.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in accordance with the RE-Powering America's Land initiative, selected the Johnson County Landfill in Shawnee, Kansas, for a feasibility study of renewable energy production. Citizens of Shawnee, city planners, and site managers are interested in redevelopment uses for landfills in Kansas that are particularly well suited for grid-tied solar photovoltaic (PV) installation. This report assesses the Johnson County Landfill for possible grid-tied PV installations and estimates the cost, performance, and site impacts of three different PV options: crystalline silicon (fixed tilt), crystalline silicon (single-axis tracking), and thin film (fixed tilt). Each option represents a standalone system that can be sized to use an entire available site area. In addition, the report outlines financing options that could assist in the implementation of a system. The feasibility of PV systems installed on landfills is highly impacted by the available area for an array, solar resource, operating status, landfill cap status, distance to transmission lines, and distance to major roads. The report findings are applicable to other landfills in the surrounding area.
Salasovich, J.; Mosey, G.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth Math
to be `one-pagers' with a Teacher's Guide and Answer Key as a second page. This compact form was deemed very molecules you could produce? Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;1 Answer Key Problem 1 - What;2Answer Key Problem 1 - How many atoms of hydrogen (H), carbon (C) and oxygen (O) are contained
30 JULY 2010 VOL 329 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org508 CREDITS:(MAIN)NASA/JPL-CALTECH;NASA/JPL
:(MAIN)NASA/JPL-CALTECH;NASA/JPL On 18 July 2009, the Mars rover Opportunity was scooting toward a distant martian crater when it spied their meteorite. But the near miss--and the frustrating delay-- underscored a defect of current exploration of scientists, mostly at NASA and at universities, are working on improving robot explorers. But only a few
Arizona, University of
Overview of free-piston Stirling technology at the NASA Lewis Research Center
The activities include: (1) a generic free-piston Stirling technology project being conducted to develop technologies synergistic to both space power and terrestrial heat pump applications in a cooperative, cost-shared effort with the Department of Energy (DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), and (2) a free-piston Stirling space power technology demonstration project as part of the SP-100 program being conducted in support of the Department of Defense (DOD), DOE, and NASA/Lewis. The generic technology effort includes extensive parametric testing of a 1 kW free-piston Stirling engine (RE-1000), development and validation of a free-piston Stirling performance computer code, and fabrication and initial testing of an hydraulic output modification for the RE-1000 engine. The space power technology effort, under SP-100, addresses the status of the 25 kWe Space Power Demonstrator Engine (SPDE) including early test results.
Slaby, J.G.
Wind Bias from Sub-optimal Estimation Due to Geophysical Modeling Error Paul E. Johnson and David G . Long
Wind Bias from Sub-optimal Estimation Due to Geophysical Modeling Error -Wind I Paul E. Johnson (which relates the wind to the normalized radar cross section, NRCS, of the ocean surface) is uncertainty in the NRCS for given wind conditions. When the estimated variability is in- cluded in the maximum likelihood
Long, David G.
Continuing Medical Education (CME) www.princetonhcs.org A University Hospital Affiliate of UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Continuing Medical Education (CME) www.princetonhcs.org A University Hospital Affiliate of UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School The Office of Continuing Medical Education presents the Department shall be able to: 1. Review the history of medical marijuana advocacy and legislation in New Jersey. 2
Rowley, Clarence W.
Timothy T. Pridmore, Esq. McWhorter, Cob and Johnson, LLP
Timothy T. Pridmore, Esq. Timothy T. Pridmore, Esq. McWhorter, Cob and Johnson, LLP P.O. Box 2547 Lubbock, TX 79408-2547 Dear Mr. Pridmore: Re: Case No. TBB-0030 This letter concerns the complaint of retaliation filed with the Department of Energy (DOE) under 10 C.F.R. Part 708 by Curtis Broaddus. On October 3, 2007, the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) received your petition for Secretarial review of the August 29, 2007, Appeal Decision issued by the OHA Acting Director. Under the Part 708 regulations, the Secretary will reverse or revise an appeal decision by the Director of OHA only in extraordinary circumstances. 10 C.F.R. § 708.35. As discussed below, your submission does not meet this standard. In your petition, you raise three arguments in support of your
Sustainability Assessment of the Robert E. Johnson State Office Building, Final Report, Revised April 2002
The Robert E. Johnson State (REJ) Office building is a 5-story, 303,389 square foot office building for state legislative support staff, including Legislative House Committees, Legislative Council, State Auditor, the Legislative Reference Library, the Senate Print Shop, and the Sunset Commission. Overall, the building is divided into three sections with divisions created by a ground-level breezeway and vehicular access area, which are covered by the upper floors above these areas. The building�s northern facade is approximately 14 degrees west of north, exposing it to direct sunlight during the late afternoon hours in the winter. It is also important to note that the building contains over 50% glazing in the fa�ade consisting of two types of energy efficient, low-E glazing. Deciduous trees shade a large portion of the south fa�ade up to the 3rd level.
Sylvester, K. E.; Song, S.; Haberl, J. S.; Turner, W. D.
ESS 2012 Peer Review - ARPA-E Storage Overview - Mark Johnson, DOE
Storage Overview Storage Overview September 26, 2012 DOE Energy Storage Review Mark Johnson Advanced Research Projects Agency * Energy 2006 Rising Above the Gathering Storm (National Academies) 2007 America COMPETES Act ARPA-E Launched at National Academies: April 27, 2009 First Funding Announcement: May 2, 2009 Innovation based on science and engineering will be primary driver of our future prosperity & security 2009 ARRA ($400M appropriated) A Brief History of of ARPA-E FY11 Budget CR ($180M appropriated) FY12 Budget ($275M appropriated) 2 Advanced Research Projects Agency * Energy Venture Capital and Small Businesses Private Equity/Capital & Large Corporations Government Procurement Office of Science Applied Energy Offices Technology Maturity
Platek Spaces
The aim of this work is to axiomatize and enhance the recursion theory on monotonic hierarchies of operative spaces developed in [1]. This is to be accomplished by employing a special new variety of operative spaces called Platek spaces. The original ... Keywords: Platek spaces, combinatory algebra, computability, generalised recursion theory, lightface recursion
Lyubomir Ivanov
Overview of NASA Lewis Research Center free-piston Stirling engine activities
An overview of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center (LeRC) free-piston Stirling engine activities is presented. These include (1) a generic free-piston Stirling technology project being conducted to develop technologies generic to both space power and terrestrial heat pump applications in a cooperative, cost-shared effort with the Department of Energy (DOE)/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); and (2) a free-piston Stirling space power technology feasibility demonstration project being conducted in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), DOE, NASA, SP-100 project. The generic technology effort includes extensive parametric testing of a 1 kW free-piston Stirling engine (RE-1000), development of a free-piston Stirling performance computer code, design and fabrication under contract of a hydraulic output modification for RE-1000 engine tests, and a 1000-hour endurance test, under contract, of a 3 kWe free-piston Stirling/alternator engine. The newly initiated space power technology feasibility demonstration effort addresses the capability of scaling a free-piston Stirling/alternator system to about 25 kWe; developing thermodynamic cycle efficiency greater than or equal to 70 percent of Carnot at temperature ratios in the order of 1.5 to 2.0; achieving a power conversion unit specific weight of 6 kg/kWe; operating with noncontacting gas bearings; and dynamically balancing the system. Planned engine and component design and test efforts are described.
Planning For Multiple NASA Missions With Use Of Enabling Radioisotope Power
Since the early 1960�s the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies have provided radioisotope power systems (RPS) to NASA as an enabling technology for deep space and various planetary missions. They provide reliable power in situations where solar and/or battery power sources are either untenable or would place an undue mass burden on the mission. In the modern era of the past twenty years there has been no time that multiple missions have been considered for launching from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) during the same year. The closest proximity of missions that involved radioisotope power systems would be that of Galileo (October 1989) and Ulysses (October 1990). The closest that involved radioisotope heater units would be the small rovers Spirit and Opportunity (May and July 2003) used in the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission. It can be argued that the rovers sent to Mars in 2003 were essentially a special case since they staged in the same facility and used a pair of small launch vehicles (Delta II). This paper examines constraints on the frequency of use of radioisotope power systems with regard to launching them from Kennedy Space Center using currently available launch vehicles. This knowledge may be useful as NASA plans for its future deep space or planetary missions where radioisotope power systems are used as an enabling technology. Previous descriptions have focused on single mission chronologies and not analyzed the timelines with an emphasis on multiple missions.
S.G. Johnson; K.L. Lively; C.C. Dwight
The NASA-JPL Advanced Propulsion Program
this paper was performed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology, under contract with the Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mid-Term Far-Term 5. 7.
Robert Frisbee
Protocol) based Retrieve Subsets using: * Command line ( Perl) * Workflows (Kepler) * JAVA desktop software National Aeronautics and Space Administration Demo MODIS Web Service -...
Medical Hardware for the Space Environment: An Engineering Experience at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The complexity and amount of medical hardware needed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) constantly shifts with mission requirements. Early missions such as Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo required minimal, relatively non-complex medical hardware, but as mission lengths have increased from hours to multiple months and mission crew sizes have increased from one to seven, so has the amount and complexity of medical hardware. As such, a need has arisen to develop a methodology by which medical hardware is certified for the space environment in a safe, consistent, and economically viable manner. This record of study documents my experiences certifying medical hardware for the space environment by providing two specific certification examples, a defibrillator, and automated external defibrillator and provides a brief history of the medical hardware used by NASA for its manned space programs.
Reyna, Baraquiel
New NASA Visualizations Show Two Futures of Climate Change
News International News Health News New NASA Visualizations Show Two Futures of Climate Change Print E-mail Thursday, July 25, 2013 By Tara Failey Climate Scenarios...
M. Meyyappan and Cattien V. Nguyen NASA Ames Research ...
Page 1. M. Meyyappan and Cattien V. Nguyen NASA Ames Research Center ... Si3N4 on Silicon substrate Nguyen et al., Nanotechnology, 2001, Vol. ...
Dynamic tailoring and tuning for space-based precision optical structures
Next-generation space telescopes in NASA's Origins missions require use of advanced imaging techniques to achieve high optical performance with limited launch mass. Structurally-connected Michelson interferometers meet ...
Masterson, Rebecca A. (Rebecca Ann)
Political sustainability in the vision for space exploration : articulating the policy-technology feedback cycle
It is often difficult to forecast the future budgetary environment for today's space systems. Indeed, multiple NASA missions and programs have been put into jeopardy or canceled outright, due to discrepancies between the ...
Broniatowski, David Andr�, 1982-
HEXANE : architecting manned space exploration missions beyond low-earth orbit
With the end of the Space Shuttle Program and the cancellation of the Constellation Program, NASA's long-term designs for manned spaceflight beyond Earth orbit remain indefinite. Although progress has been made in plans ...
Rudat, Alexander August
A lean safety review process for payloads on the International Space Station
The International Space Station has the potential to serve as a unique test platform to enable technologies for a wide array of manned and unmanned NASA missions. In order to live up to its promise, the resources required ...
Luis, Javier de
NASA Lewis steady-state heat pipe code users manual
The NASA Lewis heat pipe code has been developed to predict the performance of heat pipes in the steady state. The code can be used as a design tool on a personal computer or, with a suitable calling routine, as a subroutine for a mainframe radiator code. A variety of wick structures, including a user input option, can be used. Heat pipes with multiple evaporators, condensers, and adiabatic sections in series and with wick structures that differ among sections can be modeled. Several working fluids can be chosen, including potassium, sodium, and lithium, for which the monomer-dimer equilibrium is considered. The code incorporates a vapor flow algorithm that treats compressibility and axially varying heat input. This code facilitates the determination of heat pipe operating temperatures and heat pipe limits that may be encountered at the specified heat input and environment temperature. Data are input to the computer through a user-interactive input subroutine. Output, such as liquid and vapor pressures and temperatures, is printed at equally spaced axial positions along the pipe as determined by the user.
Tower, L.K. [Sverdrup Technology, Inc., Brook Park, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center Group; Baker, K.W. [National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center; Marks, T.S. [Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
NASA Lewis Stirling SPRE testing and analysis with reduced number of cooler tubes
Free-piston Stirling power converters are a candidate for high capacity space power applications. The Space Power Research Engine (SPRE), a free-piston Stirling engine coupled with a linear alternator, is being tested at the NASA Lewis Research Center in support of the Civil Space Technology Initiative. The SPRE is used as a test bed for evaluating converter modifications which have the potential to improve converter performance and for validating computer code predictions. Reducing the number of cooler tubes on the SPRE has been identified as a modification with the potential to significantly improve power and efficiency. This paper describes experimental tests designed to investigate the effects of reducing the number of cooler tubes on converter power, efficiency and dynamics. Presented are test results from the converter operating with a reduced number of cooler tubes and comparisons between this data and both baseline test data and computer code predictions.
Wong, W.A.; Cairelli, J.E.; Swec, D.M.; Doeberling, T.J.; Lakatos, T.F. [National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center; Madi, F.J. [Sverdrup Technology, Inc., Cleveland, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center Group
Status and Monitoring of Natural and Supplemented Chinook Salmon in Johnson Creek, Idaho, 2006-2007 Annual Report.
The Nez Perce Tribe Johnson Creek Artificial Propagation Enhancement Project (JCAPE) has conducted juvenile and adult monitoring and evaluation studies for its 10th consecutive year. Completion of adult and juvenile Chinook salmon studies were conducted for the purpose of evaluating a small-scale production initiative designed to increase the survival of a weak but recoverable spawning aggregate of summer Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha. The JCAPE program evaluates the life cycle of natural origin (NOR) and hatchery origin (HOR) supplementation fish to quantify the key performance measures: abundance, survival-productivity, distribution, genetics, life history, habitat, and in-hatchery metrics. Operation of a picket style weir and intensive multiple spawning ground surveys were completed to monitor adult Chinook salmon and a rotary screw trap was used to monitor migrating juvenile Chinook salmon in Johnson Creek. In 2007, spawning ground surveys were conducted on all available spawning habitat in Johnson Creek and one of its tributaries. A total of 63 redds were observed in the index reach and 11 redds for all other reaches for a combined count of 74 redds. Utilization of carcass recovery surveys and adult captures at an adult picket weir yielded a total estimated adult escapement to Johnson Creek of 438 Chinook salmon. Upon deducting fish removed for broodstock (n=52), weir mortality/ known strays (n=12), and prespawning mortality (n=15), an estimated 359 summer Chinook salmon were available to spawn. Estimated total migration of brood year 2005 NOR juvenile Chinook salmon at the rotary screw trap was calculated for three seasons (summer, fall, and spring). The total estimated migration was 34,194 fish; 26,671 of the NOR migrants left in the summer (July 1 to August 31, 2005) as fry/parr, 5,852 left in the fall (September 1 to November 21, 2005) as presmolt, and only 1,671 NOR fish left in the spring (March 1 to June 30, 2006) as smolt. In addition, there were 120,415 HOR supplementation smolts released into Johnson Creek during the week of March 12, 2007. Life stage-specific juvenile survival from Johnson Creek to Lower Granite and McNary dams was calculated for brood year 2005 NOR and HOR supplementation juvenile Chinook salmon. Survival of NOR parr Chinook salmon migrating from Johnson Creek to Lower Granite and McNary dams was 28.2% and 16.2%. Survival of NOR presmolt Chinook salmon migrating from Johnson Creek to Lower Granite and McNary dams was 28.2% and 22.3%. Survival of NOR smolt Chinook salmon migrating from Johnson Creek to Lower Granite and McNary dams was 44.7% and 32.9%. Survival of HOR smolt Chinook salmon migrating from Johnson Creek to Lower Granite and McNary dams was 31.9% and 26.2%. Multi-year analysis on smolt to adult return rate's (SAR's) and progeny to parent ratio's (P:P's) were calculated for NOR and HOR supplementation Brood Year 2002 Chinook salmon. SAR's were calculated from Johnson Creek to Johnson Creek (JC to JC), Lower Granite Dam to Lower Granite (LGD to LGD), and Lower Granite Dam to Johnson Creek (LGD to JC); for NOR fish SAR's were 0.16%, 1.16% and 1.12%, while HOR supplementation SAR's from JC to JC, LGD to LGD and LGD to JC were 0.04%, 0.19% and 0.13%. P:P's for all returning NOR and HOR supplemented adults were under replacement levels at 0.13 and 0.65, respectively. Recruit per spawner estimates (R/S) for Brood Year 2005 adult Chinook salmon were also calculated for NOR and HOR supplemented Chinook salmon at JC and LGD. R/S estimates for NOR and HOR supplemented fish at JC were 231 and 1,745, while R/S estimates at LGD were 67 and 557. Management recommendations address (1) effectiveness of data collection methods, (2) sufficiency of data quality (statistical power) to enable management recommendations, (3) removal of uncertainty and subsequent cessation of M&E activities, and (4) sufficiency of findings for program modifications prior to five-year review.
Rabe, Craig D.; Nelson, Douglas D. [Nez Perce Tribe
NASA Remote Sensing Validation Data: Saudi Arabia
Since 1995, the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have co-operated to establish a 12 station network of high quality solar radiation monitoring installations across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. NREL and KACST realized the value of accurate surface solar radiation flux measurements for validation of satellite derived surface and atmospheric solar radiation flux measurements, and is making this data available to support validation of satellite data products related to the NASA Mission to Planet Earth component of the Earth Science Enterprise Earth Observing System (EOS) project to evaluate long term climate trends based on measuements from EOS Terra Platforms. A CIMEL 8 channel sunphotometer for measuring aerosol optical depth at 6 wavelengths and total column water has been deployed at the Solar Village station since February 24, 1999. [Taken from http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/new_data/Saudi_Arabia/
Myers, Daryl R. (NREL); Al-Abbadi,Naif (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Energy Research Institite); Wilcox, Steve (NREL)
Nasa's Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes Experiment
In July 2005, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration investigated tropical cyclogenesis, hurricane structure, and intensity change in the eastern North Pacific and western Atlantic using its ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft. The ...
J. Halverson; M. Black; R. Rogers; S. Braun; G. Heymsfield; D. Cecil; M. Goodman; R. Hood; A. Heymsfield; T. Krishnamurti; G. McFarquhar; M. J. Mahoney; J. Molinari; J. Turk; C. Velden; D-L. Zhang; E. Zipser; R. Kakar
Cloud Liquid Water Measurements on the Armored T-28: Intercomparison between Johnson�Williams Cloud Water Meter and CSIRO (King) Liquid Water Probe
Comparisons are made between liquid water concentration (LWC) readings obtained from a Johnson�Williams (J�W) cloud water meter and a King (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) liquid water probe, both mounted on the ...
Rand E. Feind; Andrew G. Detwiler; Paul L. Smith
NASA Advisory Council October 6-7, 2010
-Earth Object Observations Program HQ NASA Thomas D. Jones Visiting Senior Research Scientist Institute Siegel Exploration Systems Mission Directorate HQ NASA Version 13 #12;Version 13 April 15-16, 2010. Organize for Effective Action on Planetary Defense 2. Acquire Essential Search, Track, and Warning
The Meteorological Measurement System on the NASA ER-2 Aircraft
A Meteorological Measurement System (MMS) was designed and installed on one of the NASA high-altitude ER-2 aircraft (NASA 706). The MMS provides in situ measurements of free-stream pressure (�0.3 mb), temperature (�0.3�C), and wind vector (�1 m s?...
Stan G. Scott; T. Paul Bui; K. Roland Chan; Stuart W. Bowen
Lfm2000 - Fifth NASA Langley Formal Methods Workshop
This is the proceedings of Lfm2000: Fifth NASA Langley Formal Methods Workshop. The workshop was held June 13-15, 2000, in Williamsburg, Virginia. See the web site http://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/lfm2000/ for complete information about the event.
Holloway C. M.
NASA FOIA Public Liaison Officers Miriam Brown-Lam
government officials in an ill-fated attempt to stop the NASA Office of the Inspector General from continuing of Inspector General and prosecutive work of the U.S. Attorneys Office in the Southern District of Mississippi University ("MSU") on a remote sensing study, United States Attorney Donald R. Burkhalter and NASA Inspector
ARM - Field Campaign - ISDAC - NASA ARCTAS Coordination with ARM
- NASA ARCTAS Coordination with ARM - NASA ARCTAS Coordination with ARM Related Campaigns Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) 2008.04.01, Ghan, AAF Comments? We would love to hear from you! Send us a note below or call us at 1-888-ARM-DATA. Send Campaign : ISDAC - NASA ARCTAS Coordination with ARM 2008.04.01 - 2008.04.21 Lead Scientist : Richard Ferrare For data sets, see below. Description The NASA Langley Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) was deployed on the NASA King Air B200 for the ARCTAS mission in 2008. The HSRL measurements acquired during this mission were used to characterize the vertical and horizontal distribution of aerosols and aerosol optical properties, infer aerosol type, and partitioning aerosol optical depth by type. The focus of the spring (April) deployment was measurements of Arctic
Microsoft PowerPoint - smu presentation lyle johnson.ppt [Compatibility Mode]
Produced Water from NPR-3 Oil & Gas Wells for Produced Water from NPR-3 Oil & Gas Wells for Low-Temperature Geothermal Application Lyle A. Johnson, PE, RMOTC & Daniel N. Schochet, Ormat Nevada, Inc. 2 RMOTC Location 3 Potential Geothermal Supply Wells 17-WX-21 M di d T l Madison and Tensleep Possibly 35 MBWPD flowing 57 WX 3 57-WX-3 Madison and Tensleep Possibly 10 MBWPD flowing TENSLEEP PRODUCING AREA OTHER POSSIBLE TENSLEEP SOURCE WELLS AND DEEPENING CANDIDATES Precambrian granitic basement structure 4 5 6 7 Projected Geothermal Potential Well Zone Rate, MBWPD Comments Low High 17-WX-21 Madison 20 25 Flowing 17-WX-21 Tensleep 4 10 Needs perforating 41-2-X-3 Tensleep 1 3 Flowing p g 41-2-X-3 Madison 6 12 Needs deeping 48-X-28 Tensleep 2 6 Flowing 61-2-X-15 Tensleep 2 6 Flowing 61 2 X 15 Tensleep 2 6 Flowing 61-2-X-15 Madison 6 12 Needs deeping 57-WX-3 Madison 2
TransForum v9n1 - NASA's Energy Storage Capabilities
for NASA's Lunar Electric Rover is a plug-in electric vehicle with a 125 W-hrKg lithium-ion battery. NASA researchers are working to meet NASA requirements that the rover...
The life cycle CO2 emission performance of the DOE/NASA solar power satellite system: a comparison of alternative power generation systems in Japan
Solar power generation and, in particular, space solar power generation seem to be one of the most promising electric power generation technologies for reducing emissions of global warming gases (denoted collectively as CO2 emissions below). ... Keywords: Alternative technology, CO, Department of Energy (DOE)/NASA reference system, life cycle assessment (LCA), power generation, solar power satellite (SPS)
H. Hayami; M. Nakamura; K. Yoshioka
Space Systems
Oct 20, 2010 ... Three months after installation, vibration was observed in a camera ... Space Station (ISS) experienced a failure with its starboard Solar Array�...
NASA Lewis Stirling engine computer code evaluation
In support of the US Department of Energy's Stirling Engine Highway Vehicle Systems program, the NASA Lewis Stirling engine performance code was evaluated by comparing code predictions without engine-specific calibration factors to GPU-3, P-40, and RE-1000 Stirling engine test data. The error in predicting power output was /minus/11 percent for the P-40 and 12 percent for the RE-1000 at design conditions and 16 percent for the GPU-3 at near-design conditions (2000 rpm engine speed versus 3000 rpm at design). The efficiency and heat input predictions showed better agreement with engine test data than did the power predictions. Concerning all data points, the error in predicting the GPU-3 brake power was significantly larger than for the other engines and was mainly a result of inaccuracy in predicting the pressure phase angle. Analysis into this pressure phase angle prediction error suggested that improvement to the cylinder hysteresis loss model could have a significant effect on overall Stirling engine performance predictions. 13 refs., 26 figs., 3 tabs.
Sullivan, T.J.
Testimony Before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology |
Testimony Before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Testimony Before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Testimony Before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology June 18, 2013 - 11:03am Addthis Dr. Ernest Moniz Dr. Ernest Moniz Secretary of Energy Media: Watch archived video footage of the testimony. Chairman Smith, Ranking Member Johnson, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to lay out my vision for the Department of Energy. I have had the opportunity to meet with several members of the Committee during my first four weeks on the job and I look forward to meeting with and working with this Committee in the coming weeks, months, and years. Indeed, I look forward to continuing my engagement with members of Congress from both parties and both chambers to constructively illuminate our
Space design
Space stations, Moon bases and Mars bases are artificial habitats intended to support human life in extreme conditions. Their purpose is to pursue human progress and to gain knowledge and experience of the environment surrounding our planet. This research ... Keywords: Human factors, Interior design, Space habitability, Sustainability, Vision
Irene Lia Schlacht; Henrik Birke
DOE Technology Helps NASA Seek "New Horizons"
January 19, 2006 January 19, 2006 DOE Technology Helps NASA Seek "New Horizons" WASHINGTON, D.C.-The New Horizons spacecraft, powered by deep space battery technology developed by the Department of Energy's national laboratories, was successfully launched today from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a 9-1/2 year journey to explore Pluto and its moons. The spacecraft will receive heat and electricity from a long-lasting plutonium-238 powered generator developed and assembled by scientists and engineers at the Idaho, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories. "This is an amazing mission when you think about the time, distance and harsh environment that the spacecraft will encounter," said Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman. "Developing the technology to sustain the
Application and management of commonality within NASA systems
Commonality can be defined as the sharing of assets such as components, designs, processes, technologies, interfaces, and/or infrastructure across systems. Through commonality, NASA has the opportunity to develop, produce, ...
Rhodes, Richard Alexander
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission: Overview
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission is one of the first Earth observation satellites being developed by NASA in response to the National Research Council's Decadal Survey. Its mission design consists of L-band ...
O'Neill, Peggy
Results of a Joint NOAA/NASA Sounder Simulation Study
NOAA and NASA have conducted a joint simulation study to compare the retrieval accuracy of atmospheric temperature profiles and surface skin temperature retrieved from HIRS2, the current operational infrared temperature sounder, and AMTS, a ...
N. Phillips; J. Susskind; L. McMillin
Research in Hypersonic Airbreathing Propulsion at NASA Langley Research Center
The NASA Langley Research Center has been conducting research for over 4 decades to develop technology for an airbreathing-propelled vehicle. Several other organizations within the United States have also been involved in this endeavor. Even though significant ...
Kumar Ajay; Drummond J. Philip; McClinton Charles R.; Hunt James L.
ORNL NASA DAAC Announces Beta Test Version for Advanced Search
Test Version for Advanced Search The ORNL NASA DAAC is pleased to announce the public beta test release of the new version of our Mercury Advanced Search tool. Mercury is a...
NASA Research Strategy for Earth System Science: Climate Component
This paper describes the principles adopted by the NASA Earth Science Enterprise in formulating a comprehensive 2002�2010 research strategy for earth system science, and outlines one component of this broad interdisciplinary program, focused on ...
Ghassem Asrar; Jack A. Kaye; Pierre Morel
ORNL NASA DAAAC WEB Site Downtime, January 31 2007
Hardware Failure Causes ORNL DAAC Web Site Crash The ORNL DAAC wishes to apologize for the recent multiple day outage of the ORNL NASA DAAC website. On the afternoon of Thursday,...
NNSA Supports NASA MARS Scientific Laboratory Launch | National...
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Florida. NASA's newest Mars rover is powered by a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermal Generator made up of just more than 10 pounds of plutionium-238, and NNSA personnel...
NASA Visualizations Show Two Futures of Climate Change Print E-mail NASA Visualizations Show Two Futures of Climate Change Print E-mail Thursday, July 25, 2013 By Tara Failey Climate Scenarios Project Temperature and Precipitation in the U.S. through 2100 Curious to 'see' how different greenhouse gas emission scenarios are expected to impact the United States? Two recently released animated NASA visualizations developed to support the forthcoming third US National Climate Assessment show projections of Earth's temperature and precipitation patterns from today through the year 2100-revealing how "low" versus "high" emission scenarios would impact the planet's climate. "These visualizations communicate a picture of the impacts of climate change in a way that words do not," said Allison Leidner, Ph.D., a scientist who coordinates NASA's involvement in the National Climate Assessment. "When I look at the scenarios for future temperature and precipitation, I really see how dramatically our Nation's climate could change."
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NASA AND NEUROSCIENCE: AN EVOLVING PARTNERSHIP Remarks by NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr.
for advanced robotic and human spacecraft capable of leaving our planet behind and voyaging far beyond the moon in metabolism, and how the environment of long duration space missions might alter human physiology. Second, JFK said space research might result in technologies and tools for use on Earth, such as new monitoring
3Water on Planetary Surfaces Space is very cold!
many minutes? Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;Answer Key Problem 1: How much energy,600,000 Joules every hour. How many watts of electrical appliances can be run by this system? Water ice at 0 C every hour. How many watts of electrical appliances can be run by this system? Answer: 3,600,000 Joules
Highlights of NASA''s Role in Developing State-of-the-Art Nondestructive Evaluation for Composites
Since the 1970''s, when the promise of composites was being pursued for aeronautics applications, NASA has had programs that addressed the development of NDE methods for composites. These efforts included both microscopic and macroscopic NDE. At the ...
Madaras Eric I.
A Short and Personal History of the Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope, born as the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) and later the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (still SIRTF), was under discussion and development within NASA and the scientific community for more than 30 years prior to its launch in 2003. This brief history chronicles a few of the highlights and the lowlights of those 30 years from the authors personal perspective. A much more comprehensive history of SIRTF/Spitzer has been written by George Rieke (2006).
Michael Werner
Metric spaces with unique pretangent spaces
We find necessary and sufficient conditions under which an arbitrary metric space $X$ has a unique pretangent space at the marked point $a\\in X$. Key words: Metric spaces; Tangent spaces to metric spaces; Uniqueness of tangent metric spaces; Tangent space to the Cantor set.
Dovgoshey, Oleksiy; Kugukaslan, Mehmet
Solar Physics, Space Weather, and Wide-field X-ray Telescopes
Solar Physics, Space Weather, and Wide-field X-ray Telescopes CREOL & FPCE: The College of Optics of the Earth). The detrimental effects of solar storm induced "space weather" ranges from disruption of our. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA are cooperating on a Solar X-ray Imager (SXI
Van Stryland, Eric
Scientific Investigations Planned for the Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE)
The Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE) is being developed by NASA/Langley Research Center for a series of flights on the space shuttle beginning in 1994. Employing a three-wave-length Nd:YAG laser and a 1-m-diameter telescope, the system ...
M. P. McCormick; D. M. Winker; E. V. Browell; J. A. Coakley; C. S. Gardner; R. M. Hoff; G. S. Kent; S. H. Melfi; R. T. Menzies; C. M. R. Platt; D. A. Randall; J. A. Reagan
March 18, 2010 James Webb Space Telescope Studies of Dark Energy
March 18, 2010 James Webb Space Telescope Studies of Dark Energy Jonathan P. Gardner (NASA. Introduction The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has contributed significantly to studies of dark energy) was due to dark energy rather than observational or astrophysical effects such as systematic errors
Sirianni, Marco
Performance Characteristics of the Kennedy Space Center 50-MHz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Using the Median Filter/First-Guess Data Reduction Algorithm
The performance of an improved signal-processing algorithm implemented on the NASA 50-MHz radar wind profiler at Kennedy Space Center is analyzed. In 1990, NASA began using a 50-MHz Doppler radar wind profiler to demonstrate the applicability of ...
Robin S. Schumann; Gregory E. Taylor; Francis J. Merceret; Timothy L. Wilfong
This collection of activities is based on a weekly series of space science problems distributed to thousands of teachers during 2006-2007 school year. They were
's Guide and Answer Key as a second page. This compact form was deemed very popular by participating in this population? Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;Answer Key 1- During an accident, a 70 kg person Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov #12;1Unit Conversion Exercises Answer Key 1 . 360 milliRem per year
Exploration of the Design Space for the . . .
The ABLV-GT is a conceptual design for an advanced reusable launch vehicle based on the current NASA Langley ABLV concept. It is a Vision Vehicle class, horizontal takeoff, horizontal landing single-stage-to-orbit vehicle. Main propulsion is provided by Aerojet's `Strutjet' LOX/LH2 rocket-based combined cycle engine design. The ABLV-GT is designed to deliver 25,000 lbs. to the orbit of the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center. This paper will report the findings of a conceptual design study on the ABLV-GT performed over the last year by members of the Space Systems Design Lab at Georgia Tech. This work has been sponsored by the Advanced Reusable Transportation Technologies program office at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Details of the concept design including external and internal configuration, mass properties, trajectory analysis, aerodynamics, and aeroheating are given. This vehicle study resulted in the closure of 18 different vehicle designs. The trade vari...
J. Bradford; J. Olds; R. Bechtel; T. Cormier; D. Messitt
Electrostatic Climber for Space Elevator and Launcher
Author details research on the new, very prospective, electrostatic Space Elevator climber based on a new electrostatic linear engine previously offered at the 42nd Joint Propulsion Conference (AIAA-2006-5229) and published in AEAT, Vol.78, No.6, 2006, pp. 502-508. The electrostatic climber discussed can have any speed (and braking), the energy for climber movement is delivered by a lightweight high-voltage line into a Space Elevator-holding cable from Earth electric generator. This electric line also can be used for delivery electric energy to a Geosynchronous Space Station. At present, the best solution of the climber problem (announced by NASA as one important awarding problem of Space Elevator) is problematic. Author also shows the linear electrostatic engine may be used as realistic power space launcher at the present time. Two projects illustrate these new devices. Key words: Space elevator, Electrostatic climber for space elevator, Electrostatic space launcher, Electrostatic accelerator. This work is presented as paper AIAA-2007-5838 for 43 Joint Propulsion Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 9-11 July, 2007,
A. Bolonkin
Space Logistics Modeling and Simulation Analysis using SpaceNet: Four Application Cases
The future of space exploration will not be limited to sortie-style missions to single destinations. Even in present exploration taking place at the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit, logistics is complicated by flights arriving from five launch sites on Earth. The future challenges of space logistics given complex campaigns of interconnected missions in deep space will require innovative tools to aid planning and conceptual design. This paper presents a modeling framework to evaluate the propulsive and logistics feasibility of space exploration from the macro-logistics perspective, which covers the delivery of elements and resources to support demands generated during exploration. The modeling framework is implemented in a versatile and unifying software tool, SpaceNet, for general space exploration scenario analysis. Four space exploration scenarios are presented as application cases to highlight the applicability of the framework across vastly different scenarios. The first case investigates the resupply of the International Space Station between 2010 and 2015 using 77 missions combining NASA, European Space Agency, Japanese Space Agency, Russian Space Agency, and commercial space transportation. The second case models a lunar outpost build-up consisting of 17 flights to achieve continuous human presence over eight years. The third case models and evaluates a conceptual sortie-style mission to a near-Earth object, 1999 AO10. Finally, the fourth case models a flexible path type human exploration in the vicinity of Mars using a combination of human and tele-operated exploration. Taken together these cases demonstrate the challenges and logistical requirements of future human space exploration campaigns during the period from 2010-2050 and illustrate the ability of SpaceNet to model and simulate the feasibility of meeting these requirements. I.
Paul T. Grogan; Howard K. Yue; Olivier L. De Weck
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Thunderstorm Characteristics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida: A Study of Lightning Initiation Signatures as Indicated by the WSR-88D
The operational potential for predicting the onset of cloud-to-ground lightning is examined. WSR-88D reflectivity echoes were analyzed for 39 airmass thunderstorms that developed over the NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida, to determine the best ...
Michael S. Gremillion; Richard E. Orville
Renewable Energy Microgrid Testbed at NASA Ames Research
Renewable Energy Microgrid Testbed at NASA Ames Research Center Joel Kubby, Dan O'Leary, Zachary #12;Goals · Set-up a unique microgrid test-bed for renewable energy generation, monitoring and storage · Use the facility for testing systems integration, optimization and control of new renewable energy
Lee, Herbie
Comparison Between Field Data and NASA Ames Wind Tunnel Data
The objective of this analysis is to compare the measured data from the NASA Ames wind tunnel experiment to those collected in the field at the National Wind Technology Center (NWTC) with the same turbine configuration. The results of this analysis provide insight into what measurements can be made in the field as opposed to wind tunnel testing.
Corbus, D.
NASA's New Horizons Mission to the Planet Pluto
of a distant star. Its light slowly dims, revealing Pluto's radius and its atmosphere. Time[sec] Fluxfrom exploration requires a close-up visit #12;Why go to Pluto? · It's ancient: Exploring Pluto tells us what of bodies in the outer Solar System, and distant Solar Systems. #12;A Spacecraft to Pluto In 2001, NASA
Throop, Henry
User evaluation of the NASA technical report server recommendation service
We present the user evaluation of two recommendation server methodologies implemented for the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS). One methodology for generating recommendations uses log analysis to identify co-retrieval events on full-text documents. ... Keywords: digital libraries, recommendation servers, user evaluation
Michael L. Nelson; Johan Bollen; JoAnne R. Calhoun; Calvin E. Mackey
Radiations from nuclear weapons - signal detectors - NASA program information
This letter is for the purpose of supplying the information that you requested at the meeting of the sub-committee on Project Vela. It is divided into three parts: (1) Radiations from nuclear weapons; (2) Backgrounds for Vela Signal Detectors; (3) Discussion of the NASA program.
White, R. S.
Los Alamos in SPACE | National Security Science Magazine | Los Alamos
Los Alamos in SPACE Los Alamos in SPACE Since the launches of the first man-made objects (Sputnik and Explorer 1) to orbit the Earth more than a half-century ago, thousands of spacecraft have been launched, many of those carrying Los Alamos sensors and instrumentation systems. Our journey began with the research and development of a two-decade-long nuclear rocket program, Project Rover. In the 1950s, Los Alamos scientists, building on their nuclear expertise, examined new methods for rocket propulsion into space. In December 1960, in the thick of the Cold War and during negotiation of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) first met to discuss a space-based system to detect nuclear explosions in the atmosphere and space. The nation turned to Los
Power system requirements and selection for the space exploration initiative
The Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) seeks to reestablish a US program of manned and unmanned space exploration. The President has called for a program which includes a space station element, a manned habitation of the moon, and a human exploration of Mars. The NASA Synthesis Group has developed four significantly different architectures for the SEI program. One key element of a space exploration effort is the power required to support the missions. The Power Speciality Team of the Synthesis Group was tasked with assessing and evaluating the power requirements and candidate power technologies for such missions. Inputs to the effort came from existing NASA studies as well as other governments agency inputs such as those from DOD and DOE. In addition, there were industry and university briefings and results of solicitations from the AIAA and the general public as part of the NASA outreach effort. Because of the variety of power needs in the SEI program, there will be a need for multiple power system technologies including solar, nuclear and electrochemical. Due to the high rocket masses required to propel payloads to the moon and beyond to Mars, there is great emphasis placed on the need for high power density and high energy density systems. Power system technology development work is needed results will determine the ultimate technology selections. 23 refs., 10 figs.
Biringer, K.L. (Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)); Bartine, D.E. (Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)); Buden, D. (Idaho National Engineering Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)); Foreman, J. (Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC (United States)); Harrison, S. (Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, Washington, DC (United States))
Evolution of Risk Management at NASA in the Context of Achieving Adequate
Evolution of Risk Management at NASA in the Context of Achieving Evolution of Risk Management at NASA in the Context of Achieving Adequate Safety Evolution of Risk Management at NASA in the Context of Achieving Adequate Safety September 20, 2012 Presenter: Homayoon Dezfuli, Ph.D. NASA Technical Fellow for System Safety Office of Safety and Mission Assurance NASA Headquarters Topics Covered: Historical Perspective on NASA Risk Management (RM) * RM Approach After 2008 * Future Direction of RM at NASA - The Concept of "Adequate Safety" - The Issue of Risk Analysis Completeness (Rationale for Future Trends in RM) Summary 2 Acknowledgment Evolution of Risk Management at NASA in the Context of Achieving Adequate Safety More Documents & Publications DOE Standard on Development and Use of Probabilistic Risk Assessment in DOE
NASA LAW 2006 LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS WHITE PAPER 1 LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS WHITE PAPER (BASED ASTROPHYSICS WHITE PAPER NASA LAW 2006 The NASA Universe Working Group (UWG) within the SMD requested a White are addressed in the subsequent sections of this requested White Paper, which also contains a set
Savin, Daniel Wolf
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Flying on Sun Shine: Sailing in Space
On January 20th, 2011, NanoSail-D successfully deployed its sail in space. It was the first solar sail vehicle to orbit the earth and the second sail ever unfurled in space. The 10m2 sail, deployment mechanism and electronics were packed into a 3U CubeSat with a volume of about 3500cc. The NanoSail-D mission had two objectives: eject a nanosatellite from a minisatellite; deploy its sail from a highly compacted volume to validate large structure deployment and potential de-orbit technologies. NanoSail-D was jointly developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Ames Research Center. The ManTech/NeXolve Corporation provided key sail design support. NanoSail-D is managed by Marshall and jointly sponsored by the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the Space Test Program, the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation and Dynetics Inc. The presentation will provide insights into sailcraft advances and potential missions enabled by this emerging in-space propulsion technology.
Alhorn, Dean (NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center)
Experimental Endeavour on a Pillar of Flame: Space Shuttle Rises with
Experimental Endeavour on a Pillar of Flame: Space Shuttle Rises Experimental Endeavour on a Pillar of Flame: Space Shuttle Rises with Ambitious Technology Aboard Experimental Endeavour on a Pillar of Flame: Space Shuttle Rises with Ambitious Technology Aboard May 17, 2011 - 5:15pm Addthis Smoke cloud from Endeavour's Final Launge | Photo: NASA, Troy Cryder Smoke cloud from Endeavour's Final Launge | Photo: NASA, Troy Cryder Charles Rousseaux Charles Rousseaux Senior Writer, Office of Science What are the key facts? Space Shuttle Endeavour, which lifted off on its final mission Monday, carrying the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment. In addition to measuring how cosmic rays flow and what they are made of, the AMS will also search for cosmic rays made of a special form of matter known as antimatter. By looking for new particles in space via the AMS, scientists might
Innovation pathways in technology intensive government organizations : insights from NASA
Despite a rich legacy of impressive technological accomplishments (e.g., project Apollo, the Hubble Space Telescope) in recent years, the ability of government space agencies to deliver on their promises has increasingly ...
Szajnfarber, Zoe
Characterizing Aerosol Distributions and Optical Properties Using the NASA Langley High Spectral Resolution Lidar
The objective of this project was to provide vertically and horizontally resolved data on aerosol optical properties to assess and ultimately improve how models represent these aerosol properties and their impacts on atmospheric radiation. The approach was to deploy the NASA Langley Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) and other synergistic remote sensors on DOE Atmospheric Science Research (ASR) sponsored airborne field campaigns and synergistic field campaigns sponsored by other agencies to remotely measure aerosol backscattering, extinction, and optical thickness profiles. Synergistic sensors included a nadir-viewing digital camera for context imagery, and, later in the project, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP). The information from the remote sensing instruments was used to map the horizontal and vertical distribution of aerosol properties and type. The retrieved lidar parameters include profiles of aerosol extinction, backscatter, depolarization, and optical depth. Products produced in subsequent analyses included aerosol mixed layer height, aerosol type, and the partition of aerosol optical depth by type. The lidar products provided vertical context for in situ and remote sensing measurements from other airborne and ground-based platforms employed in the field campaigns and was used to assess the predictions of transport models. Also, the measurements provide a data base for future evaluation of techniques to combine active (lidar) and passive (polarimeter) measurements in advanced retrieval schemes to remotely characterize aerosol microphysical properties. The project was initiated as a 3-year project starting 1 January 2005. It was later awarded continuation funding for another 3 years (i.e., through 31 December 2010) followed by a 1-year no-cost extension (through 31 December 2011). This project supported logistical and flight costs of the NASA sensors on a dedicated aircraft, the subsequent analysis and archival of the data, and the presentation of results in conferences, workshops, and publications. DOE ASR field campaigns supported under this project included - MAX-Mex /MILAGRO (2006) - TexAQS 2006/GoMACCS (2006) - CHAPS (2007) - RACORO (2009) - CARE/CalNex (2010) In addition, data acquired on HSRL airborne field campaigns sponsored by other agencies were used extensively to fulfill the science objectives of this project and the data acquired have been made available to other DOE ASR investigators upon request.
Hostetler, Chris; Ferrare, Richard
Prof. Sivaram Arepalli joined the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Suwon, Korea in March 2009 under the World Class University program. He is an Adjunct Professor
Program at NASA-Johnson Space Center where he worked for 21 years before moving to Korea. In addition of nanomaterials for energy applications such as fuel cells, solar cells, batteries and supercapacitors. He is also-JSC. In 2007, he received "Rotary National Space Achievement Award" for the accomplishments of the Carbon
Utzinger, Urs
Methods of Using Existing Wire Lines (power lines, phone lines, internet lines) for Totally Secure Classical Communication Utilizing Kirchoff's Law and Johnson-like Noise
We outline some general solutions to use already existing and currently used wire lines, such as power lines, phone lines, internet lines, etc, for the unconditionally secure communication method based on Kirchoff's Law and Johnson-like Noise (KLJN). Two different methods are shown. One is based on filters used at single wires and the other one utilizes a common mode voltage superimposed on a three-phase powerline.
Laszlo B. Kish
EM ARRA Best Practices and Lessons Learned Workshop: Overview from Thomas Johnson, Jr., Recovery Act Program Director
EM ARRA BEST PRACTICES and LESSONS LEARNED WORKSHOP Presenter: Thomas Johnson, Jr. Recovery Act Program Director Waste Management Symposium Phoenix, AZ March 1, 2012 www.em.doe.gov 2 Recovery Act Benefits $6B of Recovery Act funds supported 122 projects/activities; including 29 identified added buy-back projects: › 90 funded projects have been physically completed as of March 1st (74% of total) › Another 23 will be completed in FY 2012 (94% of total) › 7 will be completed in FY 2013 (100% of total) Small Business: Over $2.1B › Prime: $671,119,367 › Subcontractors: $1,434,858,660 FTEs : 2,672.03 (1QFY2012) Headcount of 36,787 (End of FY 2011) www.em.doe.gov 3 Recovery Act Funding Details Spend Plan Total does not include $ 10 million reprogrammed to DOE Departmental Administration
NASA Renews Multi-Million Dollar FundingNASA Renews Multi-Million Dollar Funding The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
convection is anchored by the mountains of the Philippines. Each of these me- soscale mountain ranges entails, and the Philippines, and on the foothills of the Himalayas and Annam Cordillera. 4. Bay of Bengal convection The Bay S P O N D E N C E 3423 #12;Western Ghats and the Philippines. Figure 4 shows the cross
Space Chamber Reaches Cold Target at Unprecedented Efficiency | U.S. DOE
Space Chamber Reaches Cold Target at Unprecedented Efficiency Space Chamber Reaches Cold Target at Unprecedented Efficiency Nuclear Physics (NP) NP Home About Research Facilities Science Highlights Benefits of NP Funding Opportunities Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) News & Resources Contact Information Nuclear Physics U.S. Department of Energy SC-26/Germantown Building 1000 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20585 P: (301) 903-3613 F: (301) 903-3833 E: firstname.lastname@example.com More Information » October 2012 Space Chamber Reaches Cold Target at Unprecedented Efficiency Thomas Jefferson Laboratory lends expertise in cryogenics developments. Print Text Size: A A A Subscribe FeedbackShare Page Click to enlarge photo. Enlarge Photo Image courtesy of NASA NASA's Space Environment Simulation Lab Chamber A, which is used by the
Overview of new and emerging radiation resistant materials for space environment applications
A brief overview of materials for use with a myriad of optical, photonic, electro-optic and photovoltaic devices are of great importance to DOD, NASA and the general space community1,2. A substantial amount of investigation has been directed towards ...
Edward W. Taylor
A Space-Based Point Design for Global Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar
An end-to-end point design, including lidar, orbit, scanning, atmospheric, and data processing parameters, for space-based global profiling of atmospheric wind will be presented. The point design attempts to match the recent NASA/NOAA draft science requirements for wind measurement.
Profiling Matched To; Michael J. Kavaya; G. David Emmitt; Rod G. Frehlich; Farzin Amzajerdian; Upendra N. Singh
Sculpting space through sound
How does one experience space? What kind of information do humans collect in the process of constructing space in their mind? How does one begin to understand volume, light, texture, material, smell and sense of space? The ...
Nakagawa, Junko, 1975-
Space Solar Power Program
Information pertaining to the Space Solar Power Program is presented on energy analysis; markets; overall development plan; organizational plan; environmental and safety issues; power systems; space transportation; space manufacturing, construction, operations; design examples; and finance.
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Exhibit Space Reservation (PDF)
Zip: Country: E-mail Address: Telephone Number: Fax Number: Signature: Date: Please reserve _____ (quantity) 10' x 10' space at $1,100 each. Exhibit space�...
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In Outer Space without a Space Suit?
The author proposes and investigates his old idea - a living human in space without the encumbrance of a complex space suit. Only in this condition can biological humanity seriously attempt to colonize space because all planets of Solar system (except the Earth) do not have suitable atmospheres. Aside from the issue of temperature, a suitable partial pressure of oxygen is lacking. In this case the main problem is how to satiate human blood with oxygen and delete carbonic acid gas (carbon dioxide). The proposed system would enable a person to function in outer space without a space suit and, for a long time, without food. That is useful also in the Earth for sustaining working men in an otherwise deadly atmosphere laden with lethal particulates (in case of nuclear, chemical or biological war), in underground confined spaces without fresh air, under water or a top high mountains above a height that can sustain respiration.
Alexander Bolonkin
Transformations of Grassman Spaces
This is a version of a part of the book ``Transformations of Grassman Spaces'' (in progress). We study transformations of Grassman spaces preserving certain geometrical constructions related to buildings. The next part will be devoted to Grassman spaces associated with polar spaces.
Mark Pankov
Space System Architecture
Final Report of SSPARC: the Space Systems, Policy, and Architecture Research Consortium (Thrust II and III)
McManus, Dr. Hugh
Lori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator SOFIA Joining Forces Event
airborne observatory a highly modified Boeing 747sp fitted with a 100 inch diameter infrared telescope selected the design for a new heavy-lift space exploration system to take American astronauts farther
investigative work of the agents of the NASA Office of Inspector General. They also acknowledged the effortsUnited States Attorney's Office District of Columbia Jeffrey A. Taylor United States Attorney NEWS in 2005, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor and NASA Deputy Inspector General Thomas J. Howard announced
3RLQWVRI&RQWDFW NASA Office of Inspector General Semiannual Report to Congress April 1, 2000--September 30, 2000 i The Office of Inspector General (OIG) values your comments and recommendations about, you may contact the following individuals: Roberta L. Gross, Inspector General NASA Office
BNL | Peter Johnson
layers of thin films of magnetic and nonmagnetic materials; and high-temperature superconductors. After earning a Ph.D. in physics from Warwick University in 1978,...
NIST Johnson noise thermometry
... noise thermometry (JNT) is a primary temperature measurement ... and-or other thermal noise sources. ... Quantized Voltage Noise Source (QVNS) (see ...
Matt Johnson Lecture Notes
laws. B. State Agencies. 1. All states have some sort of Fish & Game Dep't (of various names. The state Fish and Game agencies (ours is Called Cal. Dept Fish and Game) typically set bag-limits and hunting regulations for wildlife within the state, often with much direction from larger, federal agencies
Johnson, Matthew
NASA EG-2000-03-002-GSFC Exploring Magnetic Storms 1 Educational Product
the location of the station on the map. See the Teacher's Answer Key. 3) Discuss and work the following Time (in hours) Teacher's Answer Key Note: Times given to 1/2 hour accuracy are adequate_________________ #12;NASA EG-2000-03-002-GSFC Exploring Magnetic Storms 14 Teacher's Answer Key #12;NASA EG-2000
ARM - Field Campaign - NASA Coordinated Airborne CO2 Lidar Flight Test
govCampaignsNASA Coordinated Airborne CO2 Lidar Flight Test Campaign govCampaignsNASA Coordinated Airborne CO2 Lidar Flight Test Campaign Comments? We would love to hear from you! Send us a note below or call us at 1-888-ARM-DATA. Send Campaign : NASA Coordinated Airborne CO2 Lidar Flight Test Campaign 2009.07.27 - 2009.08.07 Lead Scientist : Edward Browell For data sets, see below. Description This airborne field test campaign was designed to obtain a coordinated set of remote CO2 Laser Absorption Spectrometer (LAS) measurements using the NASA Langley/ITT 1.57-micron Continuous-Wave (CW) LAS operating from the NASA Langley UC-12 aircraft; the NASA Goddard 1.57-micron pulsed LAS operating from the NASA Glenn Lear-25 aircraft; and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2.0-micron CW-coherent LAS operating from a contracted Twin Otter aircraft. These remote LAS CO2 column measurements were compared with
NASA Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX 2002/03): Field Measurements of Snowpack Properties and Soil Moisture
A field measurement program was undertaken as part NASA�s Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX). Extensive snowpack and soil measurements were taken at field sites in Colorado over four study periods during the two study years (2002 and 2003). ...
Kelly Elder; Don Cline; Glen E. Liston; Richard Armstrong
NSLS Committees | Space Committee
Photon Sciences Space Committee Charge Purpose The Photon Sciences Directorate (PS) Space Committee is convened by the PS Chief Operating Officer (COO) on an as-needed basis to...
Topological Test Spaces
A test space is the set of outcome-sets associated with a collection of experiments. This notion provides a simple mathematical framework for the study of probabilistic theories -- notably, quantum mechanics -- in which one is faced with incommensurable random quantities. In the case of quantum mechanics, the relevant test space, the set of orthonormal bases of a Hilbert space, carries significant topological structure. This paper inaugurates a general study of topological test spaces. Among other things, we show that any topological test space with a compact space of outcomes is of finite rank. We also generalize results of Meyer and Clifton-Kent by showing that, under very weak assumptions, any second-countable topological test space contains a dense semi-classical test space.
Alexander Wilce
Small Space Heaters
Small space heaters, also called portable heaters, are typically used when the main heating system is inadequate or when central heating is too costly to install or operate. Space heater capacities...
Space X-ray Solves Mysteries of Black Holes | Department of Energy
Space X-ray Solves Mysteries of Black Holes Space X-ray Solves Mysteries of Black Holes Space X-ray Solves Mysteries of Black Holes March 13, 2013 - 3:57pm Addthis Space X-ray Solves Mysteries of Black Holes Anne M. Stark Senior Public Information Officer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "We know that black holes have a strong link to their host galaxy." Astrophysicist Bill Craig, a member of the LLNL team An international team including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists has definitively measured the spin rate of a supermassive black hole for the first time. The findings, made by the two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, solve a long-standing debate about similar measurements in
Neutron Tomography and Space
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), uses a small Maxom motor on applications for manipulators in some of their space
Egbert, Hal; Walker, Ronald; Flocchini, R.
Strongly exponential symmetric spaces
We study the exponential map of connected symmetric spaces and characterize, in terms of midpoints and of infinitesimal conditions, when it is a diffeomorphism, generalizing the Dixmier-Saito theorem for solvable Lie groups. We then give a geometric characterization of the (strongly) exponential solvable symmetric spaces as those spaces for which every triangle admits a unique double triangle. This work is motivated by Weinstein's quantization by groupoids program applied to symmetric spaces.
Yannick Voglaire
Whither design space?
Design space exploration is a long-standing focus in computational design research. Its three main threads are accounts of designer action, development of strategies for amplification of designer action in exploration, and discovery of computational ... Keywords: Design Space Exploration, Knowledge Representation, Search, State Space, Typed Feature Structures
Robert F. Woodbury; Andrew L. Burrow
Comparison of Water Vapor Measurements by Airborne Sun Photometer and Diode Laser Hygrometer on the NASA DC-8
In January�February 2003, the 14-channel NASA Ames airborne tracking sun photometer (AATS) and the NASA Langley/Ames diode laser hygrometer (DLH) were flown on the NASA DC-8 aircraft. The AATS measured column water vapor on the aircraft-to-sun ...
J. M. Livingston; B. Schmid; P. B. Russell; J. R. Podolske; J. Redemann; G. S. Diskin
Photovoltaic-Concentrator Based Power Beaming For Space Elevator Application
The MClimber team, at the Student Space Systems Fabrication Laboratory of the University of Michigan, has developed a prototype robotic climber for competition in the NASA sponsored Power Beaming Challenge. This paper describes the development of the system that utilizes a simple telescope to deliver an 8 kW beam to a photovoltaic panel in order to power a one kilometer climb. Its unique approach utilizes a precision GPS signal to track the panel. Fundamental systems of the project were implemented using a design strategy focusing on robustness and modularity. Development of this design and its results are presented.
Becker, Daniel E.; Chiang, Richard; Keys, Catherine C.; Lyjak, Andrew W.; Starch, Michael D. [S3FL, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 (United States); Nees, John A. [Center for Ultrafast Optical Science-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 (United States)
Joint NOAA, Navy, NASA Hurricane Test Bed Terms of Reference
(JHT) to advance the transfer of new research and technology into operational hurricane prediction. The JHT will routinely serve as a conduit between the operational, academic, and research communities. This facility will be located at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, FL. Whereas the operational center and associated personnel could be the NHC, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC, Navy), or the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC), and NHC will be specified in this document, both for brevity and to acknowledge the current focus of the JHT on that organization. Use of other facilities is possible depending on requirements, workload, and opportunity. II. Mission Statement The mission of the Joint (NOAA, Navy, and NASA) Hurricane Test Bed is to transfer more rapidly and smoothly new technology, research results, and observational advances of the USWRP, its sponsoring agencies, the academic community and other groups into improved tropical cyclone analysis and prediction at operational centers. III. Concept of Operations The JHT is the initial test bed activity funded by the USWRP and is established to accelerate the technology infusion focused on hurricane analysis and prediction. Until all test beds are organized under a national test bed activity, the USWRP Interagency Program Office (IPO) provides coordination and oversight. The USWRP/IPO will facilitate outreach, the proposal process, and interaction with the oversight board, funding, and other tasks common to the test beds. The JHT will work with the USWRP/IPO to accomplish those tasks appropriate for administration of the hurricane test bed. The JHT mission will be accomplished by the following: � assessing scientific breakthroughs and new techniques to identify advanced, realtime, data-analysis techniques, forecast models, and observational systems that have potential for significantly improving the forecast guidance provided to hurricane forecasters; completing tests of the codes, products, and observations in a quasi-operational information technology (IT) environment subject to metrics that mandate good scientific performance while meeting ease-of use criteria and time constraints;
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February 20, 2008: Navy shoots down NASA satellite | Department of Energy
0, 2008: Navy shoots down NASA satellite 0, 2008: Navy shoots down NASA satellite February 20, 2008: Navy shoots down NASA satellite February 20, 2008: Navy shoots down NASA satellite February 20, 2008 The Navy successfully shoots down with a missile an errant satellite 133 miles above the earth. DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) assists the Navy using its Red Storm supercomputer, located at its Sandia National Laboratories. For about two months, NNSA diverted Red Storm and its technical experts and codes to the secret project to simulate, assess, and plan the complex mission. All 26,569 processors were used on Red Storm to perform complex simulations that allowed NNSA's technical experts to predict various details and possibilities. The work helped answer many questions, such as at what altitude to hit the satellite, how
DOE and NASA Reach Cleanup Agreements with the State of California for the
NASA Reach Cleanup Agreements with the State of California NASA Reach Cleanup Agreements with the State of California for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory DOE and NASA Reach Cleanup Agreements with the State of California for the Santa Susana Field Laboratory December 6, 2010 - 12:00am Addthis Washington, D.C. - The Department of Energy and NASA both signed Administrative Orders on Consent (AOC) with the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA) today that define the process for characterization and the cleanup end-state for portions of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL). The agreements come after more than 10 months of negotiations and extensive public comment on the conceptual framework for cleanup outlined in the Agreement in Principle and additional public comment on the legally enforceable process and procedures in the draft Administrative Order on
Comparisons of the NASA ER-2 Meteorological Measurement System with Radar Tracking and Radiosonde Data
Measurements of aircraft longitude, latitude, and velocity, and measurements of atmospheric pressure, temperature, and horizontal wind from the meteorological measurement system (MMS) on board the NASA ER-2 aircraft were compared with independent ...
Steven E. Gaines; Stuart W. Bowen; R. Stephen Hipskind; T. Paul Bui; K. Roland Chan
Intense Convection Observed by NASA ER-2 in Hurricane Emily (2005)
On 17 July, intense convection in the eyewall of Hurricane Emily (2005) was observed by the high-altitude (20 km) NASA ER-2 aircraft. Analysis of this convection is undertaken using downward-looking radar, passive microwave radiometer, electric ...
Daniel J. Cecil; Kevin R. Quinlan; Douglas M. Mach
The Statistics and Structure of Subseasonal Midlatitude Variability in NASA GSFC GCMs
A comprehensive analysis of midlatitude intraseasonal variability in extended integrations of NASA GSFC general circulation models (GCMs) is conducted. This is approached by performing detailed intercomparisons of the representation of the storm ...
Introduction of grid computing application projects at the NASA earth science technology office
In 2003, NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) awarded funding for 20 new investigations in information systems technology development under the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Program. Two of the selected proposals specifically ...
Kai-Dee Chu; Liping Di; Peter Thornton
NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research | U.S. DOE Office...
8 NASA and DOE Collaborate on Dark Energy Research News In the News In Focus 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 Presentations & Testimony Recovery Act Contact...
NASA investments in in situ technologies and instruments for sample return missions
Instrument technologies for the in situ exploration of planets are of particular interest for future NASA planetary science missions.12 In situ analysis is complicated because answering specific science questions requires technologies suited to specific ...
Janice L. Buckner; Lisa May
Using NASA Remote Sensing Data to Reduce Uncertainty of Land-Use Transitions in
NASA Remote Sensing Data to Reduce Uncertainty of Land-Use Transitions in NASA Remote Sensing Data to Reduce Uncertainty of Land-Use Transitions in Global Carbon-Climate Models: Data Management Plan L. Chini, G.C. Hurtt, M. Hansen, and P. Potapov Department of Geography University of Maryland The following Data Management Plan was part of the NASA ROSES 2012 Proposal Using NASA Remote Sensing Data to Reduce Uncertainty of Land-Use Transitions in Global Carbon- Climate Models (summary) submitted to the Terrestrial Ecology Program. It is presented as an example plan. Data Management Plan The proposed project will generate important new datasets of remote-sensing-based land-use transitions and their inherent uncertainty. Our plan for managing these datasets includes quality assessment, long-term archiving, and data sharing and dissemination (along with documentation
NASA Stardust Samples Headed to BNL for Analysis
Contact Us: Contact Us: Phone: 631 344-2345 Fax: 631 344-3368 E-mail: email@example.com Building 134 Brookhaven Nat'l Lab Upton, NY 11973 NSLS researchers reach for the stars(dust) Stardust spacecraft image Stardust Video See a video (in Real format) of researchers at the National Synchrotron Light Source discussing the analysis of the Stardust samples. Need RealPlayer? Space Studies at the NSLS The Stardust particles are not the first space-dust particles to be brought to the NSLS for analysis, nor are they the only type of extraterrestrial material to be studied there. For example, Mars meteorites and meteorites believed to originate from asteroids have also been analyzed at the facility. The Origin of Organic Matter in the Solar System Evidence of Ancient Water on an Asteroid
NASA Space Settlement Contest 2007 / Pinta Turkey "The Return To Abalakin", Alexender Preuss, http://vampeta.cgsociety.org/gallery/378795/
...............................................................................................................52 IV.C. Heat Generator bodies near the Earth, we can state that, on an object revolving around the Earth within an orbit with this is to benefit from the microwaves. With Aluminum mirrors, microwaves can be focused and heat can be obtained
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA TechNologieS BeNefiT SocieTy
-intensive or faster fiber carbonization processes, such as microwave or plasma processing. In addition to improved: Hydrogen production system based on centralized biomass gasification technology producing hydrogen
Berkeley Lab Space
Space Space Committee Charter Articles Presentations Feedback Contact Us ANNOUNCEMENTS Space Planning Advisory Committee (SPAC) The LBNL Space Planning Advisory Committee (SPAC) was chartered in January 2010 to help manage the growth, both in the short term as well as long term. Specifically, SPAC will recommend to senior laboratory management policies and procedures for the allocation and utilization of space and opportunities for increased efficiency. (For the complete charter, click here.)We welcome comments and suggestions. Our email is: firstname.lastname@example.com. SPAC (Space Planning Advisory Committee) SPAC Members Telephone Number Email Rich Diamond 510-486-4459 email@example.com Rich McClure 510-486-4486 email@example.com Diana Attia 510-486-7399 firstname.lastname@example.com Rebecca Rishell 510-486-6689
Gymnastics in Phase Space
As accelerator technology advances, the requirements on accelerator beam quality become increasingly demanding. Facing these new demands, the topic of phase space gymnastics is becoming a new focus of accelerator physics R&D. In a phase space gymnastics, the beam's phase space distribution is manipulated and precision tailored to meet the required beam qualities. On the other hand, all realization of such gymnastics will have to obey accelerator physics principles as well as technological limitations. Recent examples of phase space gymnastics include Emittance exchanges, Phase space exchanges, Emittance partitioning, Seeded FELs and Microbunched beams. The emittance related topics of this list are reviewed in this report. The accelerator physics basis, the optics design principles that provide these phase space manipulations, and the possible applications of these gymnastics, are discussed. This fascinating new field promises to be a powerful tool of the future.
Chao, Alexander Wu; /SLAC
Section D: SPACE HEATING
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
2005 Residential Energy Consumption Survey Form EIA-457A (2005)--Household Questionnaire OMB No.: 1905-0092, Expiring May 31, 2008 33 Section D: SPACE HEATING
Total Space Heat-
Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update (EIA)
Released: September, 2008 Total Space Heat- ing Cool- ing Venti- lation Water Heat- ing Light- ing Cook- ing Refrig- eration Office Equip- ment Com- puters Other All Buildings...
Revised: December, 2008 Total Space Heat- ing Cool- ing Venti- lation Water Heat- ing Light- ing Cook- ing Refrig- eration Office Equip- ment Com- puters Other All Buildings*...
Passive solar space heating
An overview of passive solar space heating is presented indicating trends in design, new developments, performance measures, analytical design aids, and monitored building results.
Balcomb, J.D.
Released: September, 2008 Total Space Heat- ing Cool- ing Venti- lation Water Heat- ing Light- ing Cook- ing Refrig- eration Office Equip- ment Com- puters Other All Buildings*...
Revised: December, 2008 Total Space Heat- ing Cool- ing Venti- lation Water Heat- ing Light- ing Cook- ing Refrig- eration Office Equip- ment Com- puters Other All Buildings...
On Multi-Metric Spaces
A Smarandache multi-space is a union of $n$ spaces $A_1,A_2,..., A_n$ with some additional conditions holding. Combining Smarandache multi-spaces with classical metric spaces, the conception of multi-metric space is introduced. Some characteristics of a multi-metric space are obtained and Banach's fixed-point theorem is generalized in this paper.
Linfan Mao
Geologic interpretation of space shuttle radar images of Indonesia
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space shuttle mission in November 1981 acquired images of parts of the earth with a synthetic aperture radar system at a wavelength of 23.5 cm (9.3 in.) and spatial resolution of 38 m (125 ft). This report describes the geologic interpretation of 1:250,000-scale images of Irian Jaya and eastern Kalimantan, Indonesia, where the all-weather capability of radar penetrates the persistent cloud cover. The inclined look direction of radar enhances subtle topographic features that may be the expression of geologic structures. On the Indonesian images, the following terrain categories are recognizable for geologic mapping: carbonate, clastic, volcanic, alluvial and coastal, melange, and metamorphic, as well as undifferentiated bedrock. Regional and local geologic structures are well expressed on the images.
Sabing, F.F.
Automated Solar Feature Detection for Space Weather Applications
The solar surface and atmosphere are highly dynamic plasma environments, which evolve over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Large-scale eruptions, such as coronal mass ejections, can be accelerated to millions of kilometres per hour in a matter of minutes, making their automated detection and characterisation challenging. Additionally, there are numerous faint solar features, such as coronal holes and coronal dimmings, which are important for space weather monitoring and forecasting, but their low intensity and sometimes transient nature makes them problematic to detect using traditional image processing techniques. These difficulties are compounded by advances in ground- and space- based instrumentation, which have increased the volume of data that solar physicists are confronted with on a minute-by-minute basis; NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory for example is returning many thousands of images per hour (~1.5 TB/day). This chapter reviews recent advances in the application of images processing t...
P�rez-Su�rez, David; Bloomfield, D Shaun; McAteer, R T James; Krista, Larisza D; Byrne, Jason P; Gallagher, Peter T
Space bounds for resolution
We introduce a new way to measure the space needed in a resolution refutation of a CNF formula in propositional logic. With the former definition [6] the space required for the resolution of any unsatisfiable formula in CNF is linear in the number of ...
Juan Luis Esteban; Jacobo Tor�n
The metaplastic virtual spaces
Virtual reality systems need new metaphors for their communication. This paper presents a fuzzy enhanced semantic virtual space model. The application of the model tries to improve its conceptualization and definition of a new virtual world system. The ... Keywords: fuzzy, metaphysical, semantic spaces, synaesthesia, virtual reality
Gianluca Mura
Atoms for space
Nuclear technology offers many advantages in an expanded solar system space exploration program. These cover a range of possible applications such as power for spacecraft, lunar and planetary surfaces, and electric propulsion; rocket propulsion for lunar and Mars vehicles; space radiation protection; water and sewage treatment; space mining; process heat; medical isotopes; and self-luminous systems. In addition, space offers opportunities to perform scientific research and develop systems that can solve problems here on Earth. These might include fusion and antimatter research, using the Moon as a source of helium-3 fusion fuel, and manufacturing perfect fusion targets. In addition, nuclear technologies can be used to reduce risk and costs of the Space Exploration Initiative. 1 fig.
Buden, D.
NASA's satellite orbit anomaly problem can be solved precisely in the frame of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Anomaly confirms that gravity fields propagate with velocity of light as Einstein predicted
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory put on You Tube a problem that has been baffling the scientists for sometime. It involves an unexpected force acting on the space probes. The author proves that NASA'S satellite orbit anomaly problem can be solved in the frame of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. The anomaly confirms that gravity fields propagate with velocity of light as Einstein predicted. The proof is based on the authors discovery of the relativistic version of Newton's gravity field. The author provides formulas for relativistic equation of motion for a spacecraft in the joint gravitational field of the Earth and the Sun in a Lorentzian frame attached to the Earth. The formulas are suitable for digital computers and can be easily implemented. He also shows how to find solutions of the relativistic equations of motion for the spacecraft.
Victor M. Bogdan
Tangent spaces to metric spaces and to their subspaces
We investigate a tangent space at a point of a general metric space and metric space valued derivatives. The conditions under which two different subspace of a metric space have isometric tangent spaces in a common point of these subspaces are completely determinated.
Dovgoshey, O
A feasibility assessment of magnetic bearings for free-piston Stirling space power converters
This report describes work performed by Mechanical Technology Incorporated (MTI) under NASA Contract NAS3-26061, {open_quotes}A Feasibility Assessment of Magnetic Bearings for Free-Piston Stirling Space Engines.{close_quotes} The work was performed over the period from July 1990 through August 1991. The objective of the effort was to assess the feasibility and efficacy of applying magnetic bearings to free-piston Stirling-cycle power conversion machinery of the type currently being evaluated for possible use in future long-term space missions.
Curwen, P.W.; Rao, D.K.; Wilson, D.S. [Mechanical Technology Inc., Latham, NY (United States)
A space-based end-to-end prototype geographic information network for lunar and planetary exploration and emergency response (2002 and 2003 field experiments)
Communications and imaging experiments conducted in the Arizona desert during July of 2002 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) helped to identify a fundamental suite of scientific ... Keywords: Geographic information network, Internet, Remote sensing, Satellite imaging
Richard A. Beck; Robert K. Vincent; Doyle W. Watts; Marc A. Seibert; David P. Pleva; Michael A. Cauley; Calvin T. Ramos; Theresa M. Scott; Dean W. Harter; Mary Vickerman; David Irmies; Al Tucholski; Brian Frantz; Glenn Lindamood; Isaac Lopez; Greg Follen; Thaddeus Kollar; Jay Horowitz; Robert Griffin; Raymond Gilstrap; Marjory Johnson; Kenneth Freeman; Celeste Banaag; Joseph Kosmo; Amy Ross; Kevin Groneman; Jeffrey Graham; Kim Shillcutt; Robert Hirsh; Nathan Howard; Dean B. Eppler
On globally Symmetric Finsler spaces
The paper consider the symmetric of Finsler spaces. We give some conditions about globally symmetric Finsler spaces. Then we prove that these spaces can be written as a coset space of Lie group with an invariant Finsler metric. Finally, we prove that such a space must be Berwaldian
Khatamy, R Chavosh
Space Mapping - Optimization Online
Thus, we can usec oP�to locally minimize the surrogatecoP that the space. mappingP provides for the fine model�.An alternative surrogate introduced byMadsen�...
Survey: Energy End-Use Consumption Tables Total Space Heat- ing Cool- ing Venti- lation Water Heat- ing Light- ing Cook- ing Refrig- eration Office Equip- ment Com- puters Other...
Simplified Space Conditioning
Simplified Space Conditioning Simplified Space Conditioning Duncan Prahl, RA IBACOS, Inc. Building America Technical Update April 29, 2013 Simplified Space Conditioning Rethinking HVAC Design * Traditional Method - Assume envelope losses dictate the load - Room by room load analysis - Pick Equipment and distribute to meet the load in each room * New Method - Consider how the occupants live in the building - Seriously consider internal gains in both heating and cooling - Consider ventilation strategy - Design system Simplified Space Conditioning If you are: * A production builder * Participating in "above code" programs * Following ACCA Manual RS or ASHRAE 55 * Need to prove "delivering heat to each habitable room" * Concerned about litigation * Play it safe, Use Manual J, S & D and condition every
Space Weather 101
This report describes the basic physical concepts associated with space weather that pertain to the effects on high-voltage power transmission systems. Space weather is an extremely complex and multi-faceted phenomenon. To focus on power grid�related effects, the report addresses coronal mass ejections, which are known to be the most important driver of large geomagnetically induced currents, and describes ongoing research that is being conducted to better understand, predict, and mitigate the ...
Beam Space Propulsion
Author offers a revolutionary method non-rocket transfer of energy and thrust into Space with distance of millions kilometers. The author has developed theory and made the computations. The method is more efficient than transmission of energy by high-frequency waves. The method may be used for space launch and for acceleration the spaceship and probes for very high speeds, up to relativistic speed by current technology. Research also contains prospective projects which illustrate the possibilities of the suggested method.
NASA Ames Saves Energy and Reduces Project Costs with Non-Invasive Retrofit Technologies
NASA Ames Saves Energy and Reduces Project Costs NASA Ames Saves Energy and Reduces Project Costs with Non-Invasive Retrofit Technologies The Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat Enables Energy Efficiency Strategies, Ongoing Commissioning and Improved Operational Control Harry Sim CEO Cypress Envirosystems email@example.com www.cypressenvirosystems.com NASA Ames Reduced Project Cost by Over 80% with Non-Invasive Retrofit Technologies * Legacy Pneumatic Thermostats Waste energy High maintenance costs Uncomfortable occupants No visibility * Project Scope 14 buildings 1,370 pneumatic thermostats Integration with campus BAS Diagnostics for ongoing commissioning * Traditional DDC Retrofit Cost over $4.1 million Asbestos exposure/abatement Occupants significantly disrupted
NASA BENCHMARKS SAFETY FUNCTIONS Assessment Plan Developed By NNSA/Nevada
NASA BENCHMARKS SAFETY FUNCTIONS Assessment Plan Developed By NASA BENCHMARKS SAFETY FUNCTIONS Assessment Plan Developed By NNSA/Nevada Site Office Facility Representative Division NASA BENCHMARKS SAFETY FUNCTIONS Assessment Plan Developed By NNSA/Nevada Site Office Facility Representative Division Management should be proactive in addressing safety-related issues. Management should have an established system to provide a ranking of safety considerations founded upon risk-based priorities. Criteria: A system is in place to provide a ranking of safety considerations founded upon risk-based priorities. (DOE/EH-0135) Procedures clearly define management's responsibility for safety-related decisions and provide for the escalation of matters in an appropriate time frame. (DOE/EH-0135)Management promotes safety programs and the organization's
Power systems for production, construction, life support, and operations in space
As one looks forward to mankind`s future in space, it becomes obvious that unprecedented amounts of power will be required for the exploration, colonization, and exploitation of space. Activities envisioned include interplanetary travel, LEO to GEO transport using electric propulsion, lunar and Mars bases, advanced communications, planetary surface rovers, mining, construction, and manufacturing in space or at planetary surfaces. Power levels required for these applications vary from a few kilowatts (kWe) to 4 or 5 megawatts (MW{sub e}) electric. Significant advancements must be made over the present state of space power technology in order to enable or significantly enhance these missions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the advanced power system technologies being pursued by NASA to fulfill these future needs. Technologies discussed will include photovoltaic, solar dynamic, and nuclear power systems.
Sovie, R.J.
Parabolic John-Nirenberg spaces
We introduce a parabolic version of John-Nirenberg space with exponent $p$ and show that it is contained in local weak-$L^p$ spaces.
Berkovits, Lauri
Johnson(-like)-Noise-Kirchhoff-Loop Based Secure Classical Communicator Characteristics, for Ranges of Two to Two Thousand Kilometers, via Model-Line
A pair of Kirchhoff-Loop-Johnson(-like)-Noise communicators, which is able to work over variable ranges, was designed and built. Tests have been carried out on a model-line performance characteristics were obtained for ranges beyond the ranges of any known direct quantum communication channel and they indicate unrivalled signal fidelity and security performance of the exchanged raw key bits. This simple device has single-wire secure key generation and sharing rates of 0.1, 1, 10, and 100 bit/second for corresponding copper wire diameters/ranges of 21 mm / 2000 km, 7 mm / 200 km, 2.3 mm / 20 km, and 0.7 mm / 2 km, respectively and it performs with 0.02% raw-bit error rate (99.98 % fidelity). The raw-bit security of this practical system significantly outperforms raw-bit quantum security. Current injection breaking tests show zero bit eavesdropping ability without triggering the alarm signal, therefore no multiple measurements are needed to build an error statistics to detect the eavesdropping as in quantum communication. Wire resistance based breaking tests of Bergou-Scheuer-Yariv type give an upper limit of eavesdropped raw bit ratio of 0.19 % and this limit is inversely proportional to the sixth power of cable diameter. Hao's breaking method yields zero (below measurement resolution) eavesdropping information.
Robert Mingesz; Zoltan Gingl; Laszlo B. Kish
and cost estimates are developed, program costs are adequately managed, and the most advantageous and effectively. · Managing Risk to People, Equipment, and Mission. Ensuring that effective risk management that the Agency implements the appropriate processes, controls, and resources to improve NASA's ability
Earth, Space Sciences
Earth, Space Sciences Earth, Space Sciences /science-innovation/_assets/images/icon-science.jpg Earth, Space Sciences National security depends on science and technology. The United States relies on Los Alamos National Laboratory for the best of both. No place on Earth pursues a broader array of world-class scientific endeavors. Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling (COSIM)» Earth A team of scientists is working to understand how local changes in hydrology might bring about major changes to the Arctic landscape, including the possibility of a large-scale carbon release from thawing permafrost. Bryan Travis, an expert in fluid dynamics, is author of the Mars global hydrology numerical computer model, or MAGHNUM, used for calculating heat and fluid transport phenomena. (MAGHNUM was previously
The EDOP Radar System on the High-Altitude NASA ER-2 Aircraft
The NASA ER-2 high-altitude (20 km) aircraft that emulates a satellite view of precipitation systems carries a variety of passive and active (lidar) remote sensing instruments. A new Doppler weather radar system at X band (9.6 GHz) called the ER-...
Gerald M. Heymsfield; Steven W. Bidwell; I. Jeff Caylor; Syed Ameen; Shaun Nicholson; Wayne Boncyk; Lee Miller; Doug Vandemark; Paul E. Racette; Louis R. Dod
Performance of a Counterflow Virtual Impactor in the NASA Icing Research Tunnel
A counterflow virtual impactor (CVI) designed for aircraft use was evaluated at the NASA Icing Research Tunnel in Cleveland, Ohio. Tests were conducted for tunnel speeds of 67 and 100 m s?1, for liquid water contents of 0.23�1.4 g m?3, and for a ...
C. H. Twohy; J. W. Strapp; M. Wendisch
Towards an ASSL specification model for NASA swarm-based exploration missions
NASA swarm-based exploration missions represent a new class of concept missions based on the cooperative nature of a hive culture. A mission of this class requires an autonomic system, comprising a set of autonomous mobile units. The design and implementation ... Keywords: autonomic computing, formal specification language, swarm missions
Emil Vassev; Mike Hinchey; Joey Paquet
Videos and Multimedia from NASA's New Horizons Mission
DOE provided the power supply for NASA's New Horizons Mission, a mission to Pluto and Charon, a double-planet system, and the Kuiper Belt. The New Horizons websites provides not only several excellent photo galleries, but a collection of videos, data movies, podcasts, and animations. There are also interviews with the science team.
Houston, we have a success story: technology transfer at the NASA IV&V facility
This paper details, from the point of view of researchers and from the point of view of program managers, the development of and technology transfer from NASA's research program in Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V). Keywords: independent verification and validation, research, technology transfer
Ken McGill; Wes Deadrick; Jane Huffman Hayes; Alex Dekhtyar
Design of a Motor Control Board for the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition
Design of a Motor Control Board for the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition Chris Farnell, Brett 72701 firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com, and firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract--Motor controllers allow users to control motor speed. A custom motor controller was designed, implemented, and tested
Smith, Scott C.
36.258 UE -Woods calibrates instru-ment on NASA's new solar observa-
the stored magnetic energy is converted and released into the heliosphere and geospace in the form of solar University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Wyoming, Virginia Tech, and College of Menominee Nation36.258 UE - Woods calibrates instru- ment on NASA's new solar observa- tory. Photosby
A 94-GHz Cloud Radar System on a NASA High-Altitude ER-2 Aircraft
The 94-GHz (W band) Cloud Radar System (CRS) has been developed and flown on a NASA ER-2 high-altitude (20 km) aircraft. The CRS is a fully coherent, polarimetric Doppler radar that is capable of detecting clouds and precipitation from the ...
Lihua Li; Gerald M. Heymsfield; Paul E. Racette; Lin Tian; Ed Zenker
Future Direction of Supersonic Combustion Research: Air Force/NASA Workshop on Supersonic Combustion
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Air Force Wright Laboratory Aero Propulsion and Power Directorate, and the NASA Langley Research Center held a joint supersonic combustion workshop on 14-16 May 1996. The intent of this meeting was to: ...
Tishkoff Julian M.; Drummond J. Philip; Edwards T.; Nejad A. S.
International Space Station Again
For the fifth time in 2 1/2 years, the International Space Station (ISS) had to execute a collision avoidance maneuver in early April to ensure a safe miss distance for a piece of orbital debris. As solar activity increases during the next few years, the frequency of ISS collision avoidance might increase as many hundreds of resident space objects drift down through the ISS orbital regime. The subject of concern in late March 2011 was a fragment from Cosmos 2251, the Russian communications satellite which had accidentally collided with the U.S. Iridium 33 communications satellite in February 2009, producing more than
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The Natural History of Bugs: Using Formal Methods to Analyse Software Related Failures in Space Missions
Johnson,C.W. Formal Methods 2005, F. Fitzgerald, I.J. Hayes and A. Tarlecki (eds), Springer Verlag, LNCS 3582 pp 9-25 Springer Verlag
Johnson, C.W.
Demystifying White Spaces Xuemin Hongl
white spaces. The term "white space" refers to "spatial white space" in the rest of this paper cellular (planned) networks [9] and ad-hoc networks [10]. Different from previous works, in this paper weDemystifying White Spaces Xuemin Hongl , Cheng-Xiang Wangl , John Thompson2 , and Yan Zhang3 1Joint
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Space reactor/Stirling cycle systems for high power Lunar applications
NASA`s Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) has proposed the use of high power nuclear power systems on the lunar surface as a necessary alternative to solar power. Because of the long lunar night ({approximately} 14 earth days) solar powered systems with the requisite energy storage in the form of regenerative fuel cells or batteries becomes prohibitively heavy at high power levels ({approximately} 100 kWe). At these high power levels nuclear power systems become an enabling technology for variety of missions. One way of producing power on the lunar surface is with an SP-100 class reactor coupled with Stirling power converters. In this study, analysis and characterization of the SP-100 class reactor coupled with Free Piston Stirling Power Conversion (FPSPC) system will be performed. Comparison of results with previous studies of other systems, particularly Brayton and Thermionic, are made.
Schmitz, P.D. [Sverdrup Technology, Inc., Brook Park, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center Group; Mason, L.S. [National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH (United States). Lewis Research Center
2011 Confined Space Program Update
Confined Space Entry Program Update Confined Space Entry Program Update IMPORTANT: After reading this document, click the "Get Course Credit" link at the bottom of the page. You will then log in to the EHS training system using your LDAP to get course credit. LBNL's confined space entry program was substantially improved this year. Several new features have been included which improve overall safety for Confined Space Entrants and better align the confined space entry program with the OSHA requirements. As an Activity Lead, Confined Space Entrant or Entry Supervisor, you should be aware of the following: We improved the procedures for safely working in confined spaces. Please review the new Chapter 34 in Publication 3000. Additionally, we have a new planning tool known as the confined space inventory which is a registry of LBNL's confined spaces, their potential hazards and safe work procedures unique to a particular confined space.
Capacity on Finsler Spaces
Here, the concept of electric capacity on Finsler spaces is introduced and the fundamental conformal invariant property is proved, i.e. the capacity of a compact set on a connected non-compact Finsler manifold is conformal invariant. This work enables mathematicians and theoretical physicists to become more familiar with the global Finsler geometry and one of its new applications.
Bidabad, B
Programs on Product Spaces
We study program states that are described as tuples, i.e., product state spaces. We show how to add program variables and assignment notation to simply typed lambda calculus in order to describe functions, relations and predicate transformers on such ...
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1987 Overview of the free-piston Stirling technology for space power application
An overview is presented of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center free-piston Stirling engine activities directed toward space-power application. Free-piston Stirling technology is applicable for both solar and nuclear powered systems. As such, NASA Lewis serves as the project office to manage the newly initiated NASA SP-100 Advanced Technology Program. This 5-yr program provides the technology thrust for providing significant component and subsystem options for increased efficiency, reliability and survivability, and power output growth at reduced specific mass. One of the major elements of the program is the development of advanced power conversion concepts of which the Stirling cycle is a viable growth candidate. Under this program the status of the 25 kWe opposed-piston Space Power Demonstrator Engine (SPDE) is presented. Included in the SPDE discussion are comparisons between predicted and experimental engine performance, enhanced performance resulting from regenerator modification, increased operating stroke brought about by isolating the gas bearing flow between the displacer and power piston, identifying excessive energy losses and recommending corrective action, and a better understanding of linear alternator design and operation. Technology work is also conducted on heat exchanger concepts, both design and fabrication, to minimize the number of joints as well as to enhance performance. Design parameters and conceptual design features are also presented for a 25 kWe, single-cylinder free-piston Stirling space-power converter. A cursory comparison is presented showing the mass benefits that a Stirling system has over a Brayton system for the same peak temperature and output power.
Slaby, J.G.; Alger, D.L.
S&TR | Stardust Results Challenge Astronomical Convention
Staff Staff Article title: Stardust Results Challenge Astronomical Convention; article blurb: A Livermore team has discovered plenty of surprises in the first samples captured from a comet. Graphic of artist's conception of Stardust spacecraft. Photo of John Bradley at the Johnson Space Center. An artist's conception shows the Stardust spacecraft approaching Comet Wild 2. The spacecraft's cometary particle collector, filled with lightweight aerogel glass foam, is shown extended. The spacecraft is flanked by two solar panels. (Image courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA].) In the lower right photo, John Bradley gives the thumbs-up sign after scientists opened the Stardust sample return capsule in the clean room facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Development of NERVA reactor for space nuclear propulsion
The general technology development and demonstration of a Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA), a joint AEC-NASA program, was undertaken successfully in the 1960's and terminated in 1971 for lack of a specific mission. Detailed flight engine specifications were defined and several candidate designs which would satisfy these specifications were completed just prior to termination of these efforts. However, the technology interest continued and efforts were extended during the early 1970's to consider space power applications including a manned Mars mission and dual mode (propulsion power and electrical power) operation. Subsequent efforts have continued in developing electric power applications. Light-weight solid core reactor nuclear power sources have been conceptually studied based upon this technology. This paper provides a short summary of the technology that evolved in this very complex and frequently changing program with some specific references to the Mars mission propulsion application as it evolved from the NERVA development program.
Holman, R.R.; Pierce, B.L.
IBEX Satellite - Los Alamos in SPACE | National Security Science Magazine |
IBEX Satellite IBEX Satellite Finds Ribbon-Like Structure at Edge of Heliosphere "" The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud through which it flies. Using the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager, led by Los Alamos National Laboratory, the NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission has sent back data that indicates a "noodle soup" of solar material has accumulated at the outer fringes of the heliosphere bubble. As the solar wind streams out far beyond Pluto, racing a million miles per hour, it reaches the edge of our bubble and collides with the material between the stars, the interstellar medium. A shock wave forms at that
MHD Space Sailing
The rocket technology dates back as far as medieval China. Used initially for entertainment and religious practices over time rockets evolved into weapons and finally into means of transportation. Today, we are nearing the top of the rockets' capabilities. Although, for now they are the only way for us to send anything into space we are becoming more and more aware of the limitations of this technology. It is essential that we invent other means of propelling probes and other interplanetary vehicles through space. The authors had performed a series of magnetohydrodynamic simulations using the University of Chicago's Flash package to find out whether the interactions between the Solar Wind and the conducting ring with the electric current would occur. The MHD simulations gave the results similar to the monte-carlo calculations performed by dr Charles Danforth [1] from the University of Colorado. It is the authors' conclusion that the promising results should encourage further study of the phenomenon and the po...
Kisiel, T
Magnetic Space Launcher
A method and facilities for delivering payload and people into outer space are presented. This method uses, in general, engines located on a planetary surface. The installation consists of a space apparatus, power drive stations, which include a flywheel accumulator (for storage) of energy, a variable reducer, a powerful homopolar electric generator and electric rails. The drive stations accelerate the apparatus up to hypersonic speed. The estimations and computations show the possibility of making this project a reality in a short period of time (for payloads which can tolerate high g-forces). The launch will be very cheap at a projected cost of 3 - 5 dollars per pound. The authors developed a theory of this type of the launcher.
Alexander Bolonkin; Mark Krinker
Orbit Spaces in Superconductivity
In the framework of Landau theory of phase transitions one is interested to describe all the possible low symmetry ``superconducting'' phases allowed for a given superconductor crystal and to determine the conditions under which this crystal undergoes a phase transition. These problems are best described and analyzed in the orbit space of the high symmetry group of the ``normal, non-superconducting'' phase of the crystal. In this article it is worked out a simple example concerning superconductivity, that shows the P-matrix method to determine the equations and inequalities defining the orbit space and its stratification. This approach is of general validity and can be used in all physical problems that make use of invariant functions, as long as the symmetry group is compact.
Vittorino Talamini
Space Time Matter inflation
We study a model of power-law inflationary inflation using the Space-Time-Matter (STM) theory of gravity for a five dimensional (5D) canonical metric that describes an apparent vacuum. In this approach the expansion is governed by a single scalar (neutral) quantum field. In particular, we study the case where the power of expansion of the universe is $p \\gg 1$. This kind of model is more successful than others in accounting for galaxy formation.
Mariano Anabitarte; Mauricio Bellini
Dendrite Arm Spacing
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Nowcasting for Space Shuttle Landings at Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Space shuttle launches and landings at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) are subject to strict weather-related launch commit criteria and landing weather flight rules. Complex launch commit criteria and end-of-mission landing weather flight rules demand ...
William H. Bauman III; Steven Businger
The NERVA Derivative Reactor - A multi-application space power source
The U.S. Air Force, SDI, and NASA have identified increasing needs for electric power for all types of space missions. For many of these, only nuclear-electric can provide the lowest life cycle cost. Among the many different types of nuclear space power systems proposed, the NERVA Derivative Reactor, based on the proven NERVA/ROVER technology stands out as the most attractive. It can be integrated with closed and open cycle turbo-generators and open cycle MHD generators to provide the wide range of diverse power requirements that include multikilowatts to megawatts of steady state, baseload power and multi-megawatts of burst power for weapon systems. The NDR technology can be applied to these systems with relatively little additional engineering developments, which are primarily related to demonstrating compliance with the space nuclear safety requirements.
Pierce, B.L.; Wett, J.F.; Chi, J.W.H.
Lens space surgeries and L-space homology spheres
We describe necessary and sufficient conditions for a knot in an L-space to have an L-space homology sphere surgery. We use these conditions to reformulate a conjecture of Berge about which knots in S^3 admit lens space surgeries.
Rasmussen, Jacob
Test Results From The Idaho National Laboratory Of The NASA Bi-Supported Cell Design
The Idaho National Laboratory has been researching the application of solid-oxide fuel cell technology for large-scale hydrogen production. As a result, the Idaho National Laboratory has been testing various cell designs to characterize electrolytic performance. NASA, in conjunction with the University of Toledo, has developed a new cell concept with the goals of reduced weight and high power density. This paper presents results of the INL's testing of this new solid oxide cell design as an electrolyzer. Gas composition, operating voltage, and other parameters were varied during testing. Results to date show the NASA cell to be a promising design for both high power-to-weight fuel cell and electrolyzer applications.
C Stoots; J O'Brien; T Cable
C Stoots; J O' Brien; T Cable
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) Derived Data, Global Earth Coverage (GEC) from NASA's Earth Probe Satellite
This is data from an external datastream processed through the ARM External Data Center (XDC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The XDC identifies sources and acquires data, called "external data", to augment the data being generated within the ARM program. The external data acquired are usually converted from native format to either netCDF or HDF formats. The GEC collection contains global data derived from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument on the Earth Probe satellite, consisting of daily values of aerosol index, ozone and reflectivity remapped into a regular 1x1.25 deg grid. Data are available from July 25, 1996 - December 31, 2005, but have been updated or replaced as of September 2007. See the explanation on the ARM web site at http://www.arm.gov/xds/static/toms.stm and the information at the NASA/TOMS web site: http://toms.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (Registration required)
Bloom Energy -(Univ. Arizona), Dr. KR Sridhar ( Bloom Energy CEO) NASA
#12;Bloom Energy - (Univ. Arizona), Dr. KR Sridhar ( Bloom Energy CEO) NASA SOFC; Morgan Stanley SOFC Group, KIER #12;100 kW SOFC System 100 kW : 4 x 25 kW - Each module : 25 kW - OneW Module SOFC Group, KIER #12;Bloom Energy SOFC (kW) () (kWh) CO2 (/) Google 400kW, Jul. 2008
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Symplectic space and orthogonal space of n qubits
In the Hilbert space of n qubits, we introduce the symplectic space (n odd) and the orthogonal space (n even) via the spin-flip operator. Under this mathematical structure we discuss some properties of n qubits, including homomorphically mapping the local operations of n qubits into the symplectic group or orthogonal group, and prove that the generalized ``magic basis'' is just the bi-orthonormal basis (that is, the orthonormal basis of both Hilbert space and the orthogonal space ). Finally, an example is given to discuss the application in physics of this mathematical structure.
Jian-Wei Xu
Particle simulations of space weather
We review the application of particle simulation techniques to the full kinetic study of space weather events. We focus especially on the methods designed to overcome the difficulties created by the tremendous range of time and space scales present in ... Keywords: Adaptive, Implicit, Particle-in-cell, Space weather
Giovanni Lapenta
Upgrading Below Grade Spaces
Patrick H. Huelman, Sam Breidenbach, Steve Schirber Patrick H. Huelman, Sam Breidenbach, Steve Schirber NorthernSTAR Building America Partnership Upgrading Below Grade Spaces Residential Energy Efficiency Stakeholder March 1, 2012 Austin, TX * Act 1: Technical Challenges & Opportunities - Pat Huelman, University of Minnesota * Act 2: Assessing Homeowner Priorities & Risks - Sam Breidenbach, TDS Custom Construction * Act 3: An Industry Perspective - Steve Schirber, Cocoon Act 1. Upgrade Below Grade * Basement Remodeling: It Doesn't Get Any Riskier! - Combustion safety - Foundation moisture - Radon (& other soil gases) - Biologicals (mold, dust mites, etc.) - Garage gases (if attached) * And front and center are uncontrolled... - negative pressures in basements (beyond stack)
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U U C L E A R E N E R G Y DOE/NE-0071 U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f E n e r g y O f f i c e o f N u c l e a r E n e r g y , S c i e n c e a n d T e c h n o l o g y N UCLEAR Power in Space 2
A Dynamic GIS�Multicriteria Technique for Siting the NASA�Clark Atlanta Urban Rain Gauge Network
Because Atlanta, Georgia, is a model of rapid transition from forest/agriculture land use to urbanization, NASA and other agencies have initiated programs to identify and understand how urban heat islands (UHIs) impact the environment in terms of ...
J. Marshall Shepherd; Olayiwola O. Taylor; Carlos Garza
The Saharan Air Layer and the Fate of African Easterly Waves�NASA's AMMA Field Study of Tropical Cyclogenesis
In 2006, NASA led a field campaign to investigate the factors that control the fate of African easterly waves (AEWs) moving westward into the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Aircraft and surface-based equipment were based on Cape Verde's islands, ...
Edward J. Zipser; Cynthia H. Twohy; Si-Chee Tsay; N. Christina Hsu; Gerald M. Heymsfield; K. Lee Thornhill; Simone Tanelli; Robert Ross; T. N. Krishnamurti; Q. Ji; Gregory Jenkins; Syed Ismail; Richard Ferrare; Gao Chen; Edward V. Browell; Bruce Anderson; Robbie Hood; H. Michael Goodman; Andrew Heymsfield; Jeffrey Halverson; Jason P. Dunion; Michael Douglas; Robert Cifelli
Summary and recommendations for the NASA/MIT Workshop on Short Haul Air Transport, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, August 1971
Executive summary: A review is given of the material covered by the MIT/NASA Waterville Valley workshop which dealt with the institutional, socio-economic, operational, and technological problems associated with introducing ...
Simpson, R. W.
The Search for Dark Matter with the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope
The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has been scanning the gamma ray sky since it was launched by NASA in June 2008 and has a mission lifetime goal of 10 years. Largely due to our particle physics heritage, one of the main physics topics being studied by the Fermi LAT Collaboration is the search for dark matter via indirect detection. My talk will review the progress of these studies, something on how the LAT detector enables them, and expectations for the future. I will discuss both gamma-ray and (electron + positron) searches for dark matter, and some resulting theoretical implications.
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Technology and International Cooperation Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology April 15, 2002 University Programs University Programs Nuclear Energy Research Advisory...
Christopher Johnson | Argonne National Laboratory
polymer electrolytes, and applying nanoscience to batteries. Topics Energy, Energy usage, Energy storage, Batteries, Lithium-ion batteries, Sodium batteries Education...
Intelligent Satellite Teams Space Systems
This paper examines the development of Intelligent Satellite Teams (IST's) for complex space missions such as construction of space hardware, or Earth or space science. IST's are composed of many nanosatellites (mass control including formation flying, collision avoidance, knowledge sharing, and adaptive reconfiguration; microtechnology including microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microfabricated sensors and actuators, nanotechnology, and integrated wireless communication; mission analysis -- high-level planning and control of mission, satellites, and procedures. Recent rapid technological advances in these fields open up exciting new possibilities for future space missions: space science missions such as testing gravitational variation, detecting and characterizing near-Earth asteroids and comets, and comprehensive exploration of the solar system; Earth science missions ...
Mark E. Campbell; Karl F. B�hringer
The rocket technology dates back as far as medieval China. Used initially for entertainment and religious practices over time rockets evolved into weapons and finally into means of transportation. Today, we are nearing the top of the rockets' capabilities. Although, for now they are the only way for us to send anything into space we are becoming more and more aware of the limitations of this technology. It is essential that we invent other means of propelling probes and other interplanetary vehicles through space. The authors had performed a series of magnetohydrodynamic simulations using the University of Chicago's Flash package to find out whether the interactions between the Solar Wind and the conducting ring with the electric current would occur. The MHD simulations gave the results similar to the monte-carlo calculations performed by dr Charles Danforth [1] from the University of Colorado. It is the authors' conclusion that the promising results should encourage further study of the phenomenon and the possibility of using it in practice.
T. Kisiel; M. Soida
Progress in Developing a New 5 Kilowatt Free-Piston Stirling Space Convertor
The NASA Vision for Exploration of the Moon envisions a nuclear reactor coupled with a free-piston Stirling convertor at a power level of 30-40 kWe. In the 1990s, Mechanical Technology, Inc.'s Stirling Engine Systems Division (now a part of Foster-Miller, Inc.) developed a 25 kWe free piston Stirling Space Power Demonstrator Engine under the SP-100 program. This system consisted of two 12.5 kWe engines connected at their hot ends and mounted in tandem to cancel vibration. Recently, NASA and DoE have been developing dual 55 We and 80 We Stirling convertor systems for use with radioisotope heat sources. Total test times of all convertors in this effort exceed 120,000 hours. Recently, NASA began a new project with Auburn University to develop a 5 kWe, single convertor for use in the Lunar power system. Goals of this development program include a specific power in excess of 140 We/kg at the convertor level, lifetime in excess of five years and a control system that will safely manage the convertors in case of an emergency. Auburn University awarded a subcontract to Foster-Miller, Inc. to undertake development of the 5 kWe Stirling Convertor Assembly. The characteristics of the design along with progress in developing the system will be described.
Brandhorst, Henry W. Jr.; Kirby, Raymond L. [Space Research Institute, 231 Leach Center, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL, 36849-5320 (United States); Chapman, Peter A. [Foster-Miller, Inc., 431 New Karner Rd., Albany, NY, USA 12205 (United States)
Converting Unconditioned Basement to Conditioned Space - Code...
Conditioned Space - Code Notes Converting a basement to conditioned space increases the living space of a house. As with most construction activities, the conversion or...
An Approach to Autonomous Control for Space Nuclear Power Systems
Under Project Prometheus, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) investigated deep space missions that would utilize space nuclear power systems (SNPSs) to provide energy for propulsion and spacecraft power. The initial study involved the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO), which was proposed to conduct in-depth studies of three Jovian moons. Current radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) and solar power systems cannot meet expected mission power demands, which include propulsion, scientific instrument packages, and communications. Historically, RTGs have provided long-lived, highly reliable, low-power-level systems. Solar power systems can provide much greater levels of power, but power density levels decrease dramatically at {approx} 1.5 astronomical units (AU) and beyond. Alternatively, an SNPS can supply high-sustained power for space applications that is both reliable and mass efficient. Terrestrial nuclear reactors employ varying degrees of human control and decision-making for operations and benefit from periodic human interaction for maintenance. In contrast, the control system of an SNPS must be able to provide continuous operatio for the mission duration with limited immediate human interaction and no opportunity for hardware maintenance or sensor calibration. In effect, the SNPS control system must be able to independently operate the power plant while maintaining power production even when subject to off-normal events and component failure. This capability is critical because it will not be possible to rely upon continuous, immediate human interaction for control due to communications delays and periods of planetary occlusion. In addition, uncertainties, rare events, and component degradation combine with the aforementioned inaccessibility and unattended operation to pose unique challenges that an SNPS control system must accommodate. Autonomous control is needed to address these challenges and optimize the reactor control design.
Wood, Richard Thomas [ORNL; Upadhyaya, Belle R. [University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)
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Overview of free-piston Stirling engine technology for space power application
An overview is presented of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center (LeRC) free-piston Stirling engine activities directed toward space-power application. One of the major elements of the program is the development of advanced power conversion of which the Stirling cycle is a viable candidate. Under this program the status of the 25 kWe opposed-piston Space Power Demonstrator Engine (SPDE) is presented. Technology work is also conducted on heat-exchanger concepts, both design and fabrication, to minimize the number of joints as well as to enhance the heat transfer in the heater. Design parameters and conceptual design features are also presented for a 25 kWe, single-cylinder free-piston Stirling space-power converter. Projections are made for future space-power requirements over the next few decades along with a recommendation to consider the use of dynamic power-conversion systems - either solar or nuclear. A description of a study to investigate the feasibility of scaling a single-cylinder free-piston Stirling space-power module to the 150 kWe power range is presented.
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Exploring Lighting Spaces
We present a simple system for interactively specifying lighting parameters, including position, for high-quality image synthesis. Unlikeinverse approaches to the lighting-design problem, we do not require the user to indicate a priori the desired illuminative characteristics of an image. In our approach the computer proposes, culls, and organizes a set of candidate lights automatically, using an elementary measure of image similarityasthe basis for both culling and organization. The user then browses the set of candidate-light images, selects which lights to include, and combines them as desired. This work is a particular instance of a general strategy --- sampling a design space broadly and intelligently and organizing the results for rapid browsing by the user --- that may be applicable to many other design problems in computer graphics.
T. Kang; J. Seims; J. Marks; S. Shieber
Hilbert space of wormholes
Wormhole boundary conditions for the Wheeler--DeWitt equation can be derived from the path integral formulation. It is proposed that the wormhole wave function must be square integrable in the maximal analytic extension of minisuperspace. Quantum wormholes can be invested with a Hilbert space structure, the inner product being naturally induced by the minisuperspace metric, in which the Wheeler--DeWitt operator is essentially self--adjoint. This provides us with a kind of probabilistic interpretation. In particular, giant wormholes will give extremely small contributions to any wormhole state. We also study the whole spectrum of the Wheeler--DeWitt operator and its role in the calculation of Green's functions and effective low energy interactions.
Garay, L J
Evaluation of a Stirling engine heater bypass with the NASA Lewis nodal-analysis performance code
In support of the US Department of Energy's Stirling Engine Highway Vehicle Systems program, the NASA Lewis Research Center investigated whether bypassing the P-40 Stirling engine heater during regenerative cooling would improve the engine thermal efficiency. The investigation was accomplished by using the Lewis nodal-analysis Stirling engine computer model. Bypassing the P-40 Stirling engine heater at full power resulted in a rise in the indicated thermal efficiency from 40.6 to 41.0 percent. For the idealized (some losses not included) heater bypass that was analyzed, this benefit is not considered significant.
Acceptability of reactors in space
Reactors are the key to our future expansion into space. However, there has been some confusion in the public as to whether they are a safe and acceptable technology for use in space. The answer to these questions is explored. The US position is that when reactors are the preferred technical choice, that they can be used safely. In fact, it does not appear that reactors add measurably to the risk associated with the Space Transportation System.
Reactors are the key to our future expansion into space. However, there has been some confusion in the public as to whether they are a safe and acceptable technology for use in space. The answer to these questions is explored. The US position is that when reactors are the preferred technical choice, that they can be used safely. In fact, it dies not appear that reactors add measurably to the risk associated with the Space Transportation System.
Entropic Gravity in Rindler Space
We show that Rindler horizons are entropic screens and gravity is an entropic force in Rindler space by deriving the Verlinde entropy formula from the focusing of light due to a mass close to the horizon. Consequently, gravity is also entropic in the near horizon regions of Schwarzschild and de Sitter space-times. In different limits, the entropic nature of gravity in Rindler space leads to the Bekenstein entropy bound and the uncertainty principle.
Halyo, Edi
Edi Halyo
No Prejudice in Space
We present a summary of recent results obtained from a scan of the 19-dimensional parameter space of the pMSSM and its implications for dark matter searches. We have generated a large set of points in parameter space (which we call 'models') for the 19-parameter CP-conserving pMSSM, where MFV has been assumed. We subjected these models to numerous experimental and theoretical constraints to obtain a set of {approx}68 K models which are consistent with existing data. We attempted to be somewhat conservative in our implementation of these constraints; in particular we only demanded that the relic density of the LSP not be greater than the measured value of {Omega}H{sup 2} for non-baryonic dark matter, rather than assuming that the LSP must account for the entire observed relic density. Examining the properties of the neutralinos in these models, we find that many are relatively pure gauge eigenstates with Higgsinos being the most common, followed by Winos. The relative prevalence of Higgsino and Wino LSPs leads many of our models to have a chargino as nLSP, often with a relatively small mass splitting between this nLSP and the LSP; this has important consequences in both collider and astroparticle phenomenology. We find that, in general, the LSP in our models provides a relatively small ({approx} 4%) contribution to the dark matter, however there is a long tail to this distribution and a substantial number of models for which the LSP makes up all or most of the dark matter. Typically these neutralinos are mostly Binos. Examining the signatures of our models in direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments, we find a wide range of signatures for both cases. In particular, we find a much larger range of WIMP-nucleon cross sections than is found in any particular model of SUSY-breaking. As these cross sections also enter the regions of parameter space suggested by non-SUSY models, it appears that the discovery of WIMPs in direct detection experiments might not be sufficient to determine the correct model of the underlying physics. As a first look at the signatures of these models in indirect detection experiments, we examined whether our models could explain the PAMELA excess in the positron to electron ratio at high energies. We find that there are models which fit the PAMELA data rather well, and some of these have significantly smaller boost factors than generally assumed for a thermal relic. The study of the pMSSM presents exciting new possibilities for SUSY phenomenology. The next few years will hopefully see important discoveries both in colliders and in satellite or ground-based astrophysical experiments. It is important that we follow the data and not our existing prejudices; hopefully this sort of relatively model-independent approach to collider and astrophysical phenomenology can be useful in this regard.
Cotta, R.C.; Gainer, J.S.; Hewett, J.L.; Rizzo, T.G.; /SLAC
A characterization of separable conjugate spaces
Necessary and sufficient conditions for a separable Banach space to be a dual space are proved. Some applications are discussed
Rossi, Stefano
Physics in discrete spaces (A): Space-Time organization
We put forward a model of discrete physical space that can account for the structure of space- time, give an interpretation to the postulates of quantum mechanics and provide a possible explanation to the organization of the standard model of particles.
P. Peretto
Released: September, 2008 Released: September, 2008 Total Space Heat- ing Cool- ing Venti- lation Water Heat- ing Light- ing Cook- ing Refrig- eration Office Equip- ment Com- puters Other All Buildings* ........................... 3,037 115 397 384 52 1,143 22 354 64 148 357 Building Floorspace (Square Feet) 1,001 to 5,000 ........................... 386 19 43 18 11 93 7 137 8 12 38 5,001 to 10,000 .......................... 262 12 35 17 5 83 4 56 6 9 35 10,001 to 25,000 ........................ 407 20 46 44 8 151 3 53 9 19 54 25,001 to 50,000 ........................ 350 15 55 50 9 121 2 34 7 16 42 50,001 to 100,000 ...................... 405 16 57 65 7 158 2 29 6 18 45 100,001 to 200,000 .................... 483 16 62 80 5 195 1 24 Q 31 56 200,001 to 500,000 .................... 361 8 51 54 5 162 1 9 8 19 43 Over 500,000 ............................. 383 8 47 56 3 181 2 12 8 23 43 Principal Building Activity
Considerations for Steady-State FRC-Based Fusion Space Propulsion (A23579)
Proc. Of NASA Advanced Propulsion Workshop On Fusion Propulsion, Huntsville, Alabama, 2000, To Be PublishedNASA Advanced Propulsion Workshop on Fusion Propulsion Huntsville AL, US, 2000978449582
Schaffer, M.J.
Revised: December, 2008 Revised: December, 2008 Total Space Heat- ing Cool- ing Venti- lation Water Heat- ing Light- ing Cook- ing Refrig- eration Office Equip- ment Com- puters Other All Buildings ............................. 91.0 33.0 7.2 6.1 7.0 18.7 2.7 5.3 1.0 2.2 7.9 Building Floorspace (Square Feet) 1,001 to 5,000 ........................... 99.0 30.7 6.7 2.7 7.1 13.9 7.1 19.9 1.1 1.7 8.2 5,001 to 10,000 .......................... 80.0 30.1 5.5 2.6 6.1 13.6 5.2 8.2 0.8 1.4 6.6 10,001 to 25,000 ........................ 71.0 28.2 4.5 4.1 4.1 14.5 2.3 4.5 0.8 1.6 6.5 25,001 to 50,000 ........................ 79.0 29.9 6.8 5.9 6.3 14.9 1.7 3.9 0.8 1.8 7.1 50,001 to 100,000 ...................... 88.7 31.6 7.6 7.6 6.5 19.6 1.7 3.4 0.7 2.0 8.1 100,001 to 200,000 .................... 104.2 39.1 8.2 8.9 7.9 22.9 1.1 2.9 Q 3.2 8.7 200,001 to 500,000 ....................
Active laser frequency stabilization and resolution enhancement of interferometers for the measurement of gravitational waves in space
Laser frequency stabilization is notably one of the major challenges on the way to a space-borne gravitational wave observatory. The proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is presently under development in an ESA, NASA collaboration. We present a novel method for active laser stabilization and phase noise suppression in such a gravitational wave detector. The proposed approach is a further evolution of the "arm locking" method, which in essence consists of using an interferometer arm as an optical cavity, exploiting the extreme long-run stability of the cavity size in the frequency band of interest. We extend this method by using the natural interferometer arm length differences and existing interferometer signals as additional information sources for the reconstruction and active suppression of the quasi-periodic laser frequency noise, enhancing the resolution power of space-borne gravitational wave detectors.
Markus Herz
Upper Estimates for Banach Spaces
We study the relationship of dominance for sequences and trees in Banach spaces. In the context of sequences, we prove that domination of weakly null sequences is a uniform property. More precisely, if $(v_i)$ is a normalized basic sequence and $X$ is a Banach space such that every normalized weakly null sequence in $X$ has a subsequence that is dominated by $(v_i)$, then there exists a uniform constant $C\\geq1$ such that every normalized weakly null sequence in $X$ has a subsequence that is $C$-dominated by $(v_i)$. We prove as well that if $V=(v_i)_{i=1}^\\infty$ satisfies some general conditions, then a Banach space $X$ with separable dual has subsequential $V$ upper tree estimates if and only if it embeds into a Banach space with a shrinking FDD which satisfies subsequential $V$ upper block estimates. We apply this theorem to Tsirelson spaces to prove that for all countable ordinals $\\alpha$ there exists a Banach space $X$ with Szlenk index at most $\\omega^{\\alpha \\omega +1}$ which is universal for all Banach spaces with Szlenk index at most $\\omega^{\\alpha\\omega}$.
Freeman, Daniel B.
Integral Transforms Connecting the Hardy space with Barut-Girardello Spaces
We construct a one parameter family of integral transforms connecting the classical Hardy space with a class of weighted Bergman spaces called Barut-Girardello spaces.
Zouhair Mouayn
Cone structure of $L^2$-Wasserstein spaces
In this paper, we prove that if a base space has a cone structure, then so does its $L^2$-Wasserstein space. Furthermore, we investigate relations between the base spaces of the both cones. Conversely, we show when an $L^2$-Wasserstein space has a cone structure satisfying certain conditions, then its underlying space is also a cone.
Takatsu, Asuka
On Algebraic Multi-Ring Spaces
A Smarandache multi-space is a union of $n$ spaces $A_1,A_2,..., A_n$ with some additional conditions holding. Combining Smarandache multi-spaces with rings in classical ring theory, the conception of multi-ring spaces is introduced. Some characteristics of a multi-ring space are obtained in this paper.
Solar site test module. [DOE/NASA solar heating and cooling demonstration installations
A solar site test module using the Rockwell AIM 65 micro-computer is described. The module is designed to work at any site where an IBM site data acquisition system (SDAS) is installed and is intended primarily as a troubleshooting tool for DOE/NASA commercial solar heating and cooling system demonstration installations. It collects sensor information (temperatures, flow rates, etc.) and displays or prints it immediately in calibrated engineering units. It will read one sensor on demand, periodically read up to 10 sensors or periodically read all sensors. Performance calculations can also be included with sensor data. Unattended operation is possible to, e.g., monitor a group of sensors once per hour. Work is underway to add a data acquisition system to the test module so that it can be used at sites which have no SDAS.
Kissel, R.R.; Scott, D.R.
Environmental Design Space model assessment
The Environmental Design Space (EDS) is a multi-disciplinary design tool used to explore trade-offs among aircraft fuel burn, emissions, and noise. This thesis uses multiple metrics to assess an EDS model of a Boeing 777 ...
Spindler, Phillip Michael
TCP extensions for space communications
The space communication environment and mobile and wireless communication environments show many similarities when observed from the perspective of a transport protocol. Both types of environments exhibit loss caused by data corruption and link outage, ...
Robert C. Durst; Gregory J. Miller; Eric J. Travis
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STAR: Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research A collaboration involving: PNNL: Connor J. Flynn, B. Schmid, E. Kassianov NASA Ames: S. Dunagan, R. Johnson,...
Coordinate transformations in quaternion spaces
The quaternion spaces can be used to describe the property of electromagnetic field and gravitational field. In the quaternion space, some coordinate transformations can be deduced from the feature of quaternions, including Lorentz transformation and Galilean transformation etc., when the coordinate system is transformed into others. And some coordinate transformations with variable speed of light can be obtained in the electromagnetic field and gravitational field.
Zihua Weng
Spaces of Quantum Field Theories
The concept of a "space of quantum field theories" or "theory space" was set out in the 1970's in work of Wilson, Friedan and others. This structure should play an important role in organizing and classifying QFTs, and in the study of the string landscape, allowing us to say when two theories are connected by finite variations of the couplings or by RG flows, when a sequence of QFTs converges to another QFT, and bounding the amount of information needed to uniquely specify a QFT, enabling us to estimate their number. As yet we do not have any definition of theory space which can be used to make such arguments. In this talk, we will describe various concepts and tools which should be developed for this purpose, inspired by the analogous mathematical problem of studying the space of Riemannian manifolds. We state two general conjectures about the space of two-dimensional conformal field theories, and we define a distance function on this space, which gives a distance between any pair of theories, whether or not they are connected by varying moduli. Based on talks given at QTS6 (University of Kentucky), Erice, Texas A& M, and Northwestern University. To appear in the proceedings of QTS6.
Michael R. Douglas
Dynamical 3-Space: Emergent Gravity
The laws of gravitation devised by Newton, and by Hilbert and Einstein, have failed many experimental and observational tests, namely the bore hole g anomaly, flat rotation curves for spiral galaxies, supermassive black hole mass spectrum, uniformly expanding universe, cosmic filaments, laboratory G measurements, galactic EM bending, precocious galaxy formation,.. The response has been the introduction of the new epicycles: ``dark matter", ``dark energy", and others. To understand gravity we must restart with the experimental discoveries by Galileo, and following a heuristic argument we are led to a uniquely determined theory of a dynamical 3-space. That 3-space exists has been missed from the beginning of physics, although it was 1st directly detected by Michelson and Morley in 1887. Uniquely generalising the quantum theory to include this dynamical 3-space we deduce the response of quantum matter and show that it results in a new account of gravity, and explains the above anomalies and others. The dynamical theory for this 3-space involves G, which determines the dissipation rate of space by matter, and alpha, which experiments and observation reveal to be the fine structure constant. For the 1st time we have a comprehensive account of space and matter and their interaction - gravity.
Reginald T Cahill
Innovation Approaches to Development and Ground Testing of Advanced Bimodal Space Power and Propulsion Systems
The last major development effort for nuclear power and propulsion systems ended in 1993. Currently, there is not an initiative at either the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) or the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that requires the development of new nuclear power and propulsion systems. Studies continue to show nuclear technology as a strong technical candidate to lead the way toward human exploration of adjacent planets or provide power for deep space missions, particularly a 15,000 lbf bimodal nuclear system with 115 kW power capability. The development of nuclear technology for space applications would require technology development in some areas and a major flight qualification program. The last major ground test facility considered for nuclear propulsion qualification was the U.S. Air Force/DOE Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Project. Seven years have passed since that effort, and the questions remain the same, how to qualify nuclear power and propulsion systems for future space flight. It can be reasonably assumed that much of the nuclear testing required to qualify a nuclear system for space application will be performed at DOE facilities as demonstrated by the Nuclear Rocket Engine Reactor Experiment (NERVA) and Space Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (SNTP) programs. The nuclear infrastructure to support testing in this country is aging and getting smaller, though facilities still exist to support many of the technology development needs. By renewing efforts, an innovative approach to qualifying these systems through the use of existing facilities either in the U.S. (DOE's Advance Test Reactor, High Flux Irradiation Facility and the Contained Test Facility) or overseas should be possible.
Hill, T.; Noble, C.; Martinell, J. (INEEL); Borowski, S. (NASA Glenn Research Center)
NAC Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense July 8-9, 2010 CORRECTED 9/15/10 1 NASA ADVISORY COUNCIL (NAC)
-finding at NASA HQ. DISCUSSION Timeline for Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense A brief discussion reiterated Force purview. · Ken Ford, NAC Chair, has requested from the Task Force a coherent, organized report, such as the National Research Council (NRC) report. · Key would be an individual at NASA HQ who would have a budget
Large-Scale Testing and High-Fidelity Simulation Capabilities at Sandia National Laboratories to Support Space Power and Propulsion
Sandia National Laboratories, as a Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency, has major responsibility to ensure the safety and security needs of nuclear weapons. As such, with an experienced research staff, Sandia maintains a spectrum of modeling and simulation capabilities integrated with experimental and large-scale test capabilities. This expertise and these capabilities offer considerable resources for addressing issues of interest to the space power and propulsion communities. This paper presents Sandia's capability to perform thermal qualification (analysis, test, modeling and simulation) using a representative weapon system as an example demonstrating the potential to support NASA's Lunar Reactor System.
Dobranich, Dean [Thermal and Reactive Processes Department, Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM 87185 (United States); Blanchat, Thomas K. [Fire Science and Technology Department, Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM 87185 (United States)
Deep Space Mission Radiation Shielding Optimization
Providing protection against the hazards of space radiation is a major challenge to the exploration and development of space. The great cost of added radiation shielding is a potential limiting factor in deep space missions. In the present report, we ...
Tripathi R. K.; Wilson J. W.; Cucinotta F. A.; Nealy J. E.; Clowdsley M. S.; Kim M-H. Y.
Workshop: Estudos de Ecossistemas usando Dados de Espectrmetros Imageadores (Ecosystem Studies using Imaging Spectrometer Coordenadora: Elizabeth M. Middleton (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
the ability of the vegetation to sequester carbon and to reflect radiation, due to changes in vegetation of Vegetation Carbon Flux Dynamics Petya Campbell (Univ. Maryland Baltimore Co., UMBC) 10:50 The Use of Imaging
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Pulse-echo ultrasonic inspection system for in-situ nondestructive inspection of Space Shuttle RCC heat shields.
The reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) heat shield components on the Space Shuttle's wings must withstand harsh atmospheric reentry environments where the wing leading edge can reach temperatures of 3,000 F. Potential damage includes impact damage, micro cracks, oxidation in the silicon carbide-to-carbon-carbon layers, and interlaminar disbonds. Since accumulated damage in the thick, carbon-carbon and silicon-carbide layers of the heat shields can lead to catastrophic failure of the Shuttle's heat protection system, it was essential for NASA to institute an accurate health monitoring program. NASA's goal was to obtain turnkey inspection systems that could certify the integrity of the Shuttle heat shields prior to each mission. Because of the possibility of damaging the heat shields during removal, the NDI devices must be deployed without removing the leading edge panels from the wing. Recently, NASA selected a multi-method approach for inspecting the wing leading edge which includes eddy current, thermography, and ultrasonics. The complementary superposition of these three inspection techniques produces a rigorous Orbiter certification process that can reliably detect the array of flaws expected in the Shuttle's heat shields. Sandia Labs produced an in-situ ultrasonic inspection method while NASA Langley developed the eddy current and thermographic techniques. An extensive validation process, including blind inspections monitored by NASA officials, demonstrated the ability of these inspection systems to meet the accuracy, sensitivity, and reliability requirements. This report presents the ultrasonic NDI development process and the final hardware configuration. The work included the use of flight hardware and scrap heat shield panels to discover and overcome the obstacles associated with damage detection in the RCC material. Optimum combinations of custom ultrasonic probes and data analyses were merged with the inspection procedures needed to properly survey the heat shield panels. System features were introduced to minimize the potential for human factors errors in identifying and locating the flaws. The in-situ NDI team completed the transfer of this technology to NASA and USA employees so that they can complete 'Return-to-Flight' certification inspections on all Shuttle Orbiters prior to each launch.
Roach, Dennis Patrick; Walkington, Phillip D.; Rackow, Kirk A.
Integration of space weather into space situational awareness
Rapid assessment of space weather effects on satellites is a critical step in anomaly resolution and satellite threat assessment. That step, however, is often hindered by a number of factors including timely collection and delivery of space weather data and the inherent com plexity of space weather information. As part of a larger, integrated space situational awareness program, Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed prototype operational space weather tools that run in real time and present operators with customized, user-specific information. The Dynamic Radiation Environment Assimilation Model (DREAM) focuses on the penetrating radiation environment from natural or nuclear-produced radiation belts. The penetrating radiation environment is highly dynamic and highly orbit-dependent. Operators often must rely only on line plots of 2 MeV electron flux from the NOAA geosynchronous GOES satellites which is then assumed to be representative of the environment at the satellite of interest. DREAM uses data assimilation to produce a global, real-time, energy dependent specification. User tools are built around a distributed service oriented architecture (SOA) which will allow operators to select any satellite from the space catalog and examine the environment for that specific satellite and time of interest. Depending on the application operators may need to examine instantaneous dose rates and/or dose accumulated over various lengths of time. Further, different energy thresholds can be selected depending on the shielding on the satellite or instrument of interest. In order to rapidly assess the probability that space weather was the cause of anomalous operations, the current conditions can be compared against the historical distribution of radiation levels for that orbit. In the simplest operation a user would select a satellite and time of interest and immediately see if the environmental conditions were typical, elevated, or extreme based on how often those conditions occur in that orbit. This allows users to rapidly rule in or out environmental causes of anomalies. The same user interface can also allow users to drill down for more detailed quantitative information. DREAM can be run either from a distributed web-based user interface or as a stand-alone application for secure operations. In this paper we discuss the underlying structure of the DREAM model and demonstrate the user interface that we have developed . We also present some prototype data products and user interfaces for DREAM and discuss how space environment information can be seamlessly integrated into operational SSA systems.
Reeves, Geoffrey D [Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dielectric Analog Space-Times
We generalize the notion of a dielectric analog Schwarzschild black hole model to analog models of arbitrary space-times; in particular, the approach is not restricted to static space-times. This is done by establishing a correspondence between electrodynamics on a curved, vacuum manifold, with electrodynamics in a general linear dielectric residing in Minkowski space-time. The mapping is not unique, allowing for some freedom in the specification of equivalent materials, which could be useful for exploiting recent developments in the production of metamaterials. Some examples are considered, with special attention paid to the dielectric analog of the exterior Kerr geometry, which is found to be reproducible with regular, linear, dielectrics.
Robert T. Thompson; J�rg Frauendiener
Quantum dynamics in dual spaces
Quantum mechanics gives us information about spectra of dynamical variables and transition rates including scattering cross sections. They can be exhibited as spectral information in analytically continued spaces and their duals. Quantum mechanics formulated in these generalized spaces is used to study scattering and time evolution. It is shown that the usual asymptotic condition is inadequate to deal with scattering of composite or unstable particles. Scattering theory needs amendment when the interacting system is not isospectral with the free Hamiltonian, and the amendment is formulated. Perturbation theory in generalized spaces is developed and used to study the deletion and augmentation of the spectrum of the Hamiltonian. A complete set of algebraically independent constants for an interacting system is obtained. The question of the breaking of time symmetry is discussed.
Sudarshan, E.C.G.
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Beresnev, Igor
Exponential Smoothing and State-Space Modeling
Exponential Smoothing and State-Space Modeling. Purpose: Exponential smoothing methods for forecasting are sometimes ...
Free loop spaces in topology and
Free loop spaces in topology and physics Kathryn Hess What is the space of free loops? Enumeration of geodesics Hochschild and cyclic homology Homological conformal field theories Free loop spaces in topology Meeting of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society Glasgow, 14 November 2008 #12;Free loop spaces in topology
Thévenaz, Jacques
Some moduli spaces of Bridgeland's stability conditions
We shall study some moduli spaces of Bridgeland's semi-stable objects on abelian surfaces and K3 surfaces with Picard number 1. Under some conditions, we show that the moduli spaces are isomorphic to the moduli spaces of Gieseker semi-stable sheaves. We also study the ample cone of the moduli spaces.
Minamide, Hiroki; Yoshioka, Kota
University of Wisconsin - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center Leslie Moy, Lori Borg, Bob Knuteson, Hank Revercomb, Joel Susskind, and Dave Tobin
Wisconsin - Madison Wisconsin - Madison Space Science and Engineering Center Leslie Moy, Dave Tobin, Bob Knuteson, Lori Borg, Hank Revercomb (PI), Marty Mlynczak 1 , and Joel Susskind 2 1 NASA Langley, 2 NASA GSFC Assessing ARM Clear Sky BBHRP with CERES and AIRS The RRTM calculations of clear sky OLR agree with CERES observations to ~1 W/m 2 with an uncertainty of ~1 W/m 2 . * True at SGP over 2.5 years, true globally (with some understood regional exceptions) for study day. * True using ARM data as input to RRTM, true using AIRS sounding retrievals as input to RRTM. BBRHP summary report Goal: To assess and improve BBHRP. Approach: Use CERES fluxes & AIRS radiances and retrievals. * SSF CERES is currently a better metric for BBHRP assessment than GOES. * AIRS spectral radiance analysis allows us to evaluate the
Some necessary conditions for vector space partitions
Some new necessary conditions for the existence of vector space partitions are derived. They are applied to the problem of finding the maximum number of spaces of dimension t in a vector space partition of V(2t,q) that contains m_d spaces of dimension d, where t/2spaces of other dimensions. It is also discussed how this problem is related to maximal partial (t-1)-spreads in V(2t,q). We also give a lower bound for the number of spaces in a vector space partition and verify that this bound is tight.
Heden, Olof
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager on New Horizons. Space Sci. Rev., this volume
The LOng-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the high resolution imaging instrument for the New Horizons mission to Pluto, its giant satellite Charon, its small moons Nix and Hydra, and the Kuiper Belt, which is the vast region of icy bodies extending roughly from Neptune�s orbit out to 50 astronomical units (AU). New Horizons launched on January 19, 2006 as the inaugural mission in NASA�s New Frontiers program. LORRI is a narrow angle (field of view=0.29�), high resolution (4.95 �rad pixels), Ritchey-Chr�tien telescope with a 20.8 cm diameter primary mirror, a focal length of 263 cm, and a three lens field-flattening assembly. A 1024 � 1024 pixel (optically active region), thinned, backside-illuminated charge-coupled device detector is used in the focal plane unit and is operated in frame transfer mode. LORRI provides panchromatic imaging over a bandpass that extends approximately from 350 nm to 850 nm. LORRI operates in an extreme thermal environment, situated inside the warm spacecraft with a large, open aperture viewing cold space. LORRI has a silicon carbide optical system, designed to maintain focus over the operating temperature range without a focus adjustment mechanism. Moreover, the spacecraft is thruster-stabilized without reaction wheels, placing stringent limits on the available exposure time and the optical throughput needed to satisfy the measurement requirements. 1 1.
A. F. Cheng; H. A. Weaver; S. J. Conard; M. F. Morgan; O. Barnouin-jha; J. D. Boldt; A. Cooper; E. H. Darlington; M. P. Grey; J. R. Hayes; K. E. Kosakowski; T. Magee; D. Sampath; C. Schlemm; H. W. Taylor
The Development of a Control System for a 5 Kilowatt Free Piston Stirling Space Convertor
The new NASA Vision for Exploration, announced by President Bush in January 2004, proposes an ambitious program that plans to return astronauts to the moon by the 2018 time frame. A recent NASA study entitled 'Affordable Fission Surface Power Study' recommended a 40 kWe, 900 K, NaK-cooled, Stirling conversion for 2020 launch. Use of two of the nominal 5 kW converters allows the system to be dynamically balanced. A group of four dual-converter combinations that would yield 40 kWe can be tested to validate the viability of Stirling technology for space fission surface power systems. The work described in this paper deals specifically with the control system for the 5 kW convertor described in the preceding paragraph. This control system is responsible for maintaining piston stroke to a setpoint in the presence of various disturbances including electrical load variations. Pulse starting of the FSPE convertor is also an inherent part of such a control system. Finally, the ability to throttle the engine to match the required output power is discussed in terms of setpoint control. Several novel ideas have been incorporated into the piston stroke control strategy that will engender a stable response to disturbances in the presence of midpoint drift while providing useful data regarding the position of both the power piston and displacer.
Kirby, Raymond L. [Space Research Institute, 231 Leach Center, Auburn University, Auburn University, AL, USA 36849-5320 (United States); Vitale, N. [Foster-Miller, Inc., 431 New Karner Rd., Albany, NY, USA 12205 (United States)
Debris and Future Space Activities
Debris and Future Space Activities Prof. Joel R. Primack Physics Department University eleven year cycle, it heats the upper atmosphere and makes it expand so that debris and spacecraft in low which overflows occasionally and washes only the lowest hillsides clear of debris. Debris in orbit
California at Santa Cruz, University of
of turbulent flow with phase transitions and radiation · Extreme weather and climate change -> is essentially and carbon with the ocean/ land/ice surface are mediated by turbulence #12;National Aeronautics and Space-Diffusivity (ED) approach In ED closure the sub-grid flux is parameterized as where k is the diffusivity
Bordoni, Simona
Fusion for Earth and Space
The compact reactor concept (Williams, 2007) has the potential to provide clean, safe and unlimited supply of energy for Earth and Space applications. The concept is a potential fusion reactor wherein deuterium nuclei are preferentially fused into helium nuclei. Because the deuterium nuclei are preferentially fused into helium nuclei at temperatures and energies lower than specified by the standard model there is no harmful radiation as a byproduct of this fusion process. Therefore, a reactor using this reaction does not need any shielding to contain such radiation. The energy released from each reaction and the absence of shielding makes the deuterium-plus-deuterium-to-helium (DDH) reactor very compact when compared to other reactors, both fission and fusion types. Moreover, the potential energy output per reactor weight and the absence of harmful radiation makes the DDH reactor an ideal candidate for individual home and space power. The concept also would make it possible for each plant or remote location to have it's own power source, on site, without the need for a connection to the power grid. This would minimize, or eliminate, power blackouts. The concept could replace large fission reactors and fossil fuel power plants plus provide energy for ships, locomotives, trucks and autos. It would make an ideal source of energy for space power applications and for space propulsion.
Williams, Pharis E