In the News
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- February 10, 2022
- USRA Scientist Leads Integration of Satellite Air Quality Data into USEPA's "AirNow" System
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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.
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- December 22, 2021
- USRA Scientists and Engineers Contribute to NASA's Xray Polarimetry Explorer
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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.
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- August 17, 2021
- Bringing Earth Data to Life
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Ms. Tondapu's work featured in an article on the NASA Applied Sciences website.
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- April 13, 2021
- Pollution Studies during COVID-19 Lockdown
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View the WIRED article discussing Dr. Gupta's year-long study for pollution in India during the COVID-19 lock down.
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- January 13, 2021
- Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies
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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.
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- November 6, 2020
- USRA IRAD FY21 Award
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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.
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- October 30, 2020
- Virtual NASA ARSET Training
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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.
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- October 30, 2020
- Virtual Air Quality Training for the Thai Pollution Control Dept.
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Pawan Gupta (USRA/MSFC) delivered a virtual training in August 2020 to the Thai Pollution Control Department (PCD) and Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Agency (GISTDA) on Satellite Remote Sensing for Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting.
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- May 15, 2020
- MoonBEAM selected for Concept Study
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MoonBEAM selected for a 12-month concept study through the Astrophysics Science SmallSat Studies Call (AS3).
- August 1, 2020
- STI Telework
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Marshall Space Flight Center is currently at a Stage 3 response to COVID-19 which requires mandatory telework.