'09 is another highly placed Stevens graduate at JSC. 'Systems engineering affects all aspects of each system.' 'We design, develop, build and test complex systems that go into space to support human space flight,' explains Cobbs. In 2014 he was awarded the DirectorвЂ™s Commendation Award - the highest honor given by the space center - and Cobbs says his Stevens master's degree and graduate certificate in systems engineering fueled his rapid rise within the organization. вЂ™12 directs avionics and payloads as a chief engineer on the famed International Space Station (ISS), which has orbited Earth with a changing mix of international astronauts and scientists, modules and equipment since 1998.Д¬obbsвЂ™ decorated career at NASAвЂ™s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston spans more than three decades. considers potential future Saturnian missions, as well. Rabinovitch also has his eye on computaional modeling of plumes on one of Saturn's moons (Enceladus) as the U.S. He's helping NASA narrow down potential landing zones by analyzing historical satellite and radar images of the planet's surface, applying image processing and statistical techniques to those images to determine rock distribution and size on the planet's surface as well as other physical features that could complicate landings. He makes additional calculations in collaboration with JPL for mission concepts that could soon explore Venus - a much hotter, bumpier and trickier planet to target. Rabinovitch continues that work at Stevens, including recent work modeling the large 20-meter-diameter supersonic parachutes used to land spacecraft on Mars. From delivering flight hardware and supporting parachute testing, to analysis for the preservation of collected samples, to testing the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and even modeling the interaction between the rocket engines and the Martian surface (made up of particles covering solid rock), he was involved with many aspects of the mission. While at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California - a part of NASA, managed by Caltech - Stevens professor Jason Rabinovitch supported the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission in a variety of different roles. Stevens doctoral candidate Jiuyi Zhang was also honored by NASAВ in its 2021 annual report for related work in photonics, developing a novel method for measuring the absorption spectra in the atmosphere. Working with scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, as well as researchers at the University of Arizona, the University of Maryland and several private companies, Stamnes and Huang helped refine models that draw on lidar (light detecting and ranging) measurement data collected by NASA's orbiting ICESat-2 satellite. With Stevens quantum physicist Yuping Huang, Stamnes also recently contributed to research assessing the thickness of both the Antarctic ice sheet and Arctic sea ice. Today he works with satellite imagery processing, utilizing techniques that algorithmically sharpen our understanding of ice and snow cover in polar regions and the phytoplankton living in the world's oceans. Stamnes, director of the universityвЂ™s Light and Life Lab, introduced a new mathematical algorithm for predicting how radiation transfers through layered material in the 1980s. The project, designed to function as a science lab in low-Earth orbit, is a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, RussiaвЂ™s Roscosmos space program, the Canadian Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.Stevens physicist Knut Stamnes works with NASA to improve its satellite imagery of the Earth's landforms and oceans so that we can monitor for signs of global warming or other planetary change - which can be difficult when weather, cloud cover, dust and other conditions interfere.

With its location far away from any landmasses, the area is considered a relatively safe place for falling space debris.Д¬onstruction began on the International Space Station in 1998 and completed in 2011.

Most objects will burn up as they pass through Earth's atmosphere, but some fragments can survive.

This remote part of the Pacific Ocean is sometimes nicknamed the ' Spacecraft Cemetery,' because it's a frequent target for space agencies and aerospace firms to intentionally de-orbit old or defunct spacecraft.Д¬ontrolled de-orbits are a crucial way to remove decommissioned space stations and satellites from low-Earth orbit, rather than letting them languish in space. NASA plans to aim for a region known as Point Nemo in the so-called South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area, an open stretch of water east of New Zealand.

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