Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
and Robots
Michael Deliman
Senior Engineering Specialist
• USAF/Spectrum/Orbital
• 1998 – present
• Ion propulsion
• Earth orbit
• Autonomous navigation
• Flexible deployment
• Hyperspectral imaging
• Rad6000 architecture
• NASA JPL
• Launched: Aug2001
• Returned: Oct 2004
• Sample solar wind
• Return high-purity samples
• Autonomous Flight Software
• Though mechanical systems
failed, sample return mission
was still successful
• Picture-perfect re-entry
• Sample findings solved a
lunar soil mystery
• Rad6000 architecture
9 © 2007 Wind River Systems, Inc.
SeaWinds QuickSCAT Scatterometer
• Mission to Mercury
• Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory
• Launched: 3 Aug 2004
• Earth fly-by: 2 Aug 2005
• Venus fly-by: 24 Oct 2006
• Orbit ETA: Mar 2011
– After traveling 4.9 billion
miles
• FIRST MERCURY FLY-BY:
14th JAN 2008!
• Rad6000 architecture
21 © 2007 Wind River Systems, Inc.
MRO: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Artist’s concept:
MRO over Martian poles