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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Visits Ames June 2013 - A Quarterly Publication NASA's Kepler discovers its smallest 'habitable zone' planets to date BY MICHELE JOHNSON NASA's Kepler Mission has re- cently discovered two new planetary systems that include three super- Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. The Kepler-62 system has five planets; 62b, 62c, 62d, 62e and 62f. The Kepler-69 system has two planets; 69b and 69c. Kepler-62e, 62f and 69c are the super-Earth-sized planets. Two of the newly discovered planets orbit a star smaller and cooler than the sun. Kepler-62f is only 40 Relative sizes of all of the habitable-zone planets discovered to date alongside Earth. Left to right: Kepler-22b, percent larger than Earth, making it Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: NASA the exoplanet closest to the size of Ames/JPL-Caltech. our planet known in the habitable zone of another star. Kepler-62f is around a sun-like star resembles that ate administrator of the Science Mis- likely to have a rocky composition. of our neighboring planet Venus. sion Directorate at NASA Headquar- Kepler-62e, orbits on the inner edge Scientists do not know whether life ters in Washington. "The discovery of of the habitable zone and is roughly could exist on the newfound planets, these rocky planets in the habitable 60 percent larger than Earth. but their discovery signals we are zone brings us a bit closer to finding The third planet, Kepler-69c, is 70 another step closer to finding a world a place like home. It is only a matter percent larger than the size of Earth, similar to Earth around a star like our of time before we know if the galaxy and orbits in the habitable zone of a sun. is home to a multitude of planets like star similar to our sun. Astronomers "The Kepler spacecraft has cer- Earth, or if we are a rarity." are uncertain about the composition tainly turned out to be a rock star of The Kepler space telescope, which of Kepler-69c, but its orbit of 242 days science," said John Grunsfeld, associ- simultaneously and continuously continued on page 5 NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits Ames NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (far left) visited Ames May 24, 2013, to view demonstrations of Ames’ contributions to the PhoneSat nanosatellite mission and 3D printing activity and to meet with local news media. U.S. Congressman Mike Honda, 17th Congressional District, California, (third from left) and Ames Research Center Director S. Pete Worden (second from left) were at the site of PhoneSat and additive manufacturing dem- onstrations. Demonstrating the 3D printing technology was Sarah Hovsepian (far right) SpaceShop manager. Additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is a critical part of President Obama’s push for building a strong American manufacturing sector. The PhoneSat program recently launched three small satellites built from off-the-shelf cellular phone technology. NASA photo by Dominic Hart www.nasa.gov NASA imaging sensor prepares for Western wildfire season by Ruth Dasso Marlaire Airborne imaging technology NASA-developed NASA developed and transferred to wildfire imag- the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ing technology Forest Service (USFS) in 2012 is transferred to the being tested to prepare for this year's U.S. Department of Agriculture's wildfire season in the western United Forest Service States. (USFS) has The Autonomous Modular Sen- begun test flights sor (AMS) is a scanning spectrometer onboard a Forest designed to help detect hot-spots, Service aircraft active fires and smoldering and post- in preparation for fire conditions. Scientists at Ames this year's wildfire season in the and USFS engineers installed it on a western United Cessna Citation aircraft that belongs States. to the Forest Service. The USFS plans to use it in operational fire imaging Image credit: and measurement. USFS The western United States is expected to have continued droughts "NASA technologies in the fields of Wildfire Research and Applications this year resulting in increased po- data communication, aircraft systems, Partnership project and a senior re- tential for fire outbreaks, according to advanced sensing systems and real- search scientist at Ames and Califor- the National Interagency Fire Center time information processing finally nia State University, Monterey Bay. (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho. To help miti- have coalesced into the operational Developed by NASA's Airborne gate fire danger, NASA researchers use that supports national needs in Sciences Program, the Autonomous and USFS firefighters are collabo- wildfire management," said Vincent Modular Sensor acquires high-reso- rating to improve fire management Ambrosia, principal investigator of the lution imagery of the Earth's features capabilities. continued on page 7 Ames Contractor Council hosts 2013 Excellence Awards ceremony BY PATRICIA ELSON The Ames Contractor Council (ACC) recently held its annual Excellence Awards Ceremony in the Syvertson Auditorium. This event celebrates and acknowledges the contributions that both individuals and teams have made to Ames activities. This year, Length of Service awards were added for con- tractor staff with 20 or more years of service at Ames. The event was hosted by Mas- ter of Ceremonies Neill Callis, ACC President; presentations were made by Gregory Hite, ACC Vice President, and Lewis S. G. Braxton III, Deputy Center Director. A total of 18 individuals and 12 teams were recognized for their outstanding performance over the past year. A total of 210 contractors were recognized for their length of service. The ACC also presented its Safety Excellence Award at the event, recog- nizing Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., for their best-of-class safety perfor- mance at NASA Ames during 2012. NASA photo by Dominic Hart Ames Deputy Center Director Lewis Braxton (right) congratulates contractor staff in attendance with 40 or more years of service to NASA Ames: Back row, left to right: Doug Pearson (55), Fred Witteborn (54), Herbert Finger (42) and Rick Serrano (47). Front row, left to right: John Humbert (49), Vera Vizir (40) and Lynn Albaugh (40). 2 Astrogram June 2013 NASA successfully launches three smartphone satellites by Ruth Dasso Marlaire Transmissions from all three found at: http:// PhoneSats have been received at mul- www.phonesat. tiple ground stations on Earth, indicat- org ing they are operating normally. The NASA's off- PhoneSat team at Ames will continue the-shelf Phone- to monitor the satellites. The satellites Sats already have are expected to remain in orbit for as many of the sys- long as two weeks. tems needed for a "It's always great to see a space satellite, including technology mission make it to orbit fast processors, -- the high frontier is the ultimate test- versatile operating ing ground for new and innovative systems, multiple space technologies of the future," said miniature sensors, Michael Gazarik, NASA's associate high-resolution administrator for space technology cameras, GPS in Washington. "Smartphones offer receivers and a wealth of potential capabilities for several radios. flying small, low-cost, powerful satel- NASA engineers lites for atmospheric or Earth science, kept the total cost communications, or other space-born of the compo- applications. They also may open nents for the The PhoneSats are approximately the size of a coffee cup. space to a whole new generation of three prototype commercial, academic and citizen- satellites in the space users." PhoneSat project torate at NASA Headquarters. The Satellites consisting mainly of the between $3,500 and $7,000 by using directorate is innovating, developing, smartphones will send information primarily commercial hardware and testing and flying hardware for use in about their health via radio back to keeping the design and mission objec- future science and exploration mis- Earth in an effort to demonstrate they tives to a minimum. The hardware for sions. NASA’s technology investments can work as satellites in space. The this mission is the Google-HTC Nexus provide cutting-edge solutions for our One smartphone nation’s future. running the An- The PhoneSat family of systems droid operating is part of an overall Ames effort to as- system. sess commercial grade technologies NASA added for use in small- and nano-spacecraft items a satellite systems to save development costs needs that the and leverage industry investments in smartphones high-quality, mass-produced compo- do not have -- a nents. Ames has successfully complet- larger, external ed and delivered eight nanosatellites lithium-ion bat- for launch since 2006. tery bank and a "Smartphones' ability to tolerate more powerful vigorous use makes them able to with- radio for mes- stand the launch and space environ- sages it sends ment; and their compact, modern elec- from space. The tronics components make them work smartphone's in the vacuum of space more easily. ability to send After we realized this, we set out to and receive explore whether smartphones can be calls and text used as the core components of a NASA photos by Ben Howard messages has satellite," said Jim Cockrell, PhoneSat been disabled. project manager at Ames. PhoneSat 1.0 hanging from a high-altitude balloon. PhoneSat 1.0 during Each smart- For more about information about high-altitude balloon test. phone is housed NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology in a standard Program and the PhoneSat mission, spacecraft also will attempt to take cubesat structure, measuring about visit: http://www.nasa.gov/smallsats pictures of Earth using their cameras. four inches square. The smartphone For more information about Amateur radio operators around the acts as the satellite's onboard com- NASA's Space Technology Mission world can participate in the mission by puter.
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