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Session Archive

2024

January 24, 2024

Annual In-Person LEARN Forum Outbrief
Florence Tan
Deputy Chief Technologist
NASA Science Mission Directorate

LEARNing about TBIRD
Beth Keer
TBIRD Mission Manager
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

2023

October 11-12, 2023

In-Person LEARN Forum Presentations

June 28, 2023

LEARNing about SPARCS
Dr. Evgenya Shkolnik, Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University

LEARNing about petitSat
Dr. Jonathon Smith, Research Scientist, Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere Physics Laboratory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

May 3, 2023

LEARNing about Safety and Mission Assurance for Highly Constrained Projects
Jesse Leitner, Chief Safety and Mission Assurance Engineer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

February 22, 2023 – Presentations will be posted shortly

Introduction
Luis H. Santos Soto, Chief Engineer
Small Satellite Project Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

What we LEARNed from LEARN
Florence Tan, Chair, Small Spacecraft Coordination Group
Science Mission Directorate
NASA Headquarters

LEARNing about CuSP
Don E. George, Staff Scientist
Heliophysics Section, Department of Space Research
Space Science Division
Southwest Research Institute

LEARNing about BioSentinel
Sergio Santa Maria, Lead Scientist, BioSentinel Mission
NASA Ames Research Center

2022

October 25-26, 2022

In-Person LEARN Forum Presentations

July 27, 2022

Introduction
John D. Hudeck Jr.
Deputy Chief, Small Satellite and Special Projects Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Wallops Flight Facility

Introduction to the LEARN Forum Online Community Tool
Robbie Robertson, PhD 
CEO, Co-founder | Sedaro 

LEARNing about CUTE
Dr. Kevin France
Professor, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado

LEARNing about DAILI
Dr. James H. Hecht
Senior Scientist
The Aerospace Corporation

LEARNing about STF-1
Matthew D. Grubb
Sr. Systems Engineer
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Independent Verification and Validation

May 25, 2022

Introduction
Luis H. Santos
Chief Engineer, Small Satellite Project Office
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

LEARNing about HaloSat
Philip Kaaret
Professor and Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa

LEARNing about LunaH-Map
Craig Hardgrove
Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University

LEARNing about Lunar IceCube
Benjamin K. Malphrus
Professor of Space Science
Morehead State University

March 23, 2022

NASA Headquarters Introduction
Florence Tan
Deputy Chief Technologist, Science Mission Directorate 
Chair, Small Spacecraft Coordination Group
NASA Headquarters

LEARNing about GTOSat
Lauren Blum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado Boulder

LEARNing about PACE
Anh Nguyen, Ph.D.
Project Manager, Payload Accelerator for CubeSat Endeavors
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
NASA Ames Research Center

LEARNing about RainCube
Shannon Statham Ph.D.
Supervisor, Environmental Dynamics Test Group  
Project Manager, Radar in a CubeSat
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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