In the News

William (Bill) Cleveland from USRA's Science and Technology Institute, was awarded the Silver Achievement Medal "For exemplary support of and commitment to NASA and the Gamma Ray Burst Monitor."

Dr. Pawan Gupta, senior scientist of Universities Space Research Association (USRA), is leading a group of scientists from NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team (HAQAST) to coordinate with the USEPA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). Under this HAQAST tiger team project, scientists will facilitate access to new particulate matter data being collected by NOAA-NASA’s most advanced geostationary weather satellites.

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched successfully on December 9, 2021 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was a “picture perfect” launch, according to Principal Investigator Dr. Martin Weisskopf of the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket performing nominally and nature providing ideal weather conditions.

Ms. Tondapu's work featured in an article on the NASA Applied Sciences website.

View the WIRED article discussing Dr. Gupta's year-long study for pollution in India during the COVID-19 lock down.

Dr. Oliver Roberts was part of a large international effort that recently published results on an intriguing high-energy transient called GRB 200415A, which was detected on April 15th last year by the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor on the International Space Station and the Interplanetary Network of satellites.

Dr. Corinne Fletcher (PI) and Dr. Adam Goldstein (Co-I) were awarded an FY21 USRA IRAD to provide publicly available standardized toolkit for determining and improving the location of gamma-ray transients on the sky using multiple instruments in various orbits.

Dr. Pawan Gupta, along with others on the NASA ARSET team, recently completed an advanced online training titled MODIS to VIIRS Transition for Air Quality Applications.