Systems Engineering Seminar

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 1pm (ET)

The abstract is simply a discussion of our mission systems experiences on GSFC’s in-house PACE mission, with some tall tales and plenty of time for audience discission and questions.

Biographies:

Noosha Haghani currently serves as the Electrical Systems (ES) subject matter expert (SME) on the Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) and the Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Mission Standing Review Board (SRB) and the Goddard System Review Team (GSRT). Ms. Haghani previously served as the Electrical Systems (ES) subject matter expert (SME) on the X-ray Astronomy Recovery Mission (XARM) Mission Standing Review Board (SRB) and the Command and Data Handling (C&DH)/ES SME on the Goddard System Review Team (GSRT) for the Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) Spacecraft.

Ms. Haghani has been at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) since 2002. She is currently the deputy mission systems engineer (MSE) on the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. Prior to that she was PACE’s avionics lead responsible for the architecture development, key systems trades and detailed design of all major electronics boxes and Printed Wiring Assemblies as well as the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) Instrument Commanding Data Unit (ICDU) Product Development Lead (PDL).

Ms. Haghani was the key architect, programmatic lead and systems engineer for the Modular Unified Space Technology Avionics for Next Generation (MUSTANG) project responsible for a generic Goddard Avionics to be used in mission and instrument proposals. She successfully led the design of 26 different MUSTANG cards used in various active projects and proposals.

She supported the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Project as a spacecraft avionics systems engineer responsible for supporting the development and delivery of the C&DH, Engine Valve Drive (EVD) and Power System Electronics (PSE), and navigator flight data systems. Her design expertise led her to becoming the authority in the implementation of critical electronics in spacecraft avionics.

She was the deputy product development lead (PDL) for C&DH on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Project and a computer engineer for the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Project.

Ms. Haghani received a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2014 and a NASA Outstanding Achievement Medal, 2016. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (2000) and Master's Degree in Reliability Engineering (2007), both from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Craig Stevens received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2000 and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2002 His thesis focused on the structural design, fabrication, and testing of a small satellite as part of the NASA University NanoSat Program. He has worked for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 2002 He specialized in structures and structural analysis for over 10 years. During this time he supported the development of flight systems for several NASA missions including JWST, MESSENGER, GPM, New Horizons, LADEE, Landsat 8, and LRO where he led the structural analysis for the mission.. In 2011 he was detailed to the Goddard Heliophysics Division where he worked on the mission design for several cubesat missions and technology development for photon sieves in the ultraviolet. In 2012 he began his work as the verification systems engineer for OSIRIS-Rex and from 2016 through 2024 served as the Spacecraft Systems Lead for the PACE in-house mission. Craig is currently an Associate Branch Head in the Mission Systems Engineering Branch (Code 599) and enjoys spending time with his family and getting outdoors.

Gary Davis received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MSE in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton. He has been with NASA’s GSFC for more than 30 years. Starting in the spacecraft propulsion branch, Mr. Davis supported the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and the NESC Recurring Anomalies team as part of the Space Shuttle return to flight effort. Now in the mission systems engineering organization, he has supported the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS), Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification and Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), and Plankton Aerosol Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) missions.