FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE WEBINAR
Fly, Fix, Fly: Using High-Altitude Balloons to Advance Technologies with Earth and Space Applications
Speakers:
- Sean Bryan, Associate Research Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
December 7, 2022
Abstract
Flight Opportunities supports the rapid and iterative testing of technologies that advance NASA’s priorities in space and on Earth. In this session, Dr. Sean Bryan from Arizona State University will share how he is leveraging multiple high-altitude balloon flights in order to accelerate the development of the CubeSounder weather imaging sensor. This session will also highlight best practices for working effectively with flight providers and planning across multiple flight tests to efficiently mature a space technology.
Flight Opportunities encourages the community to engage in these conversations, and participants are welcome to submit questions prior to the webinar to enable more directed responses. Please send questions to nasa-flightopportunities@mail.nasa.gov.
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Speaker Bios
Dr. Sean Bryan has been at Arizona State University since 2014, where he develops novel systems and algorithms for remote sensing, wireless communications, and astronomy. For his PhD at Case Western Reserve University, he worked on the Spider telescope array, which successfully flew in a NASA high-altitude balloon mission over Antarctica. As a research scientist in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at ASU, he developed novel signal processing algorithms for wireless communications systems. Currently, Bryan is the PI of the CubeSounder high-altitude balloon demonstration, currently in development to map the 3D distribution of water vapor and air temperature to improve weather forecasting. He is also the survey schedule lead on NASA’s SPHEREx IR mission that will provide the first all-sky spectral survey.
