# juno nasa science space

New Europa images from the spacecraft. It’s good to know you’re still out there and healthy, old friend. We’ll come visit you again in about a decade.

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2022-09-30

We are thinking about ways to involve more postdocs and junior faculty in the science team.

What ideas do you have?

Some goals: Increase familiarity with missions, inspire new science
Some constraints: Data security, bandwidth for mentorship, $

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2021-10-09

This is a big week for because we’re kicking off writing of our next extended mission proposal to

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2021-08-22

We’re planning a new instrument flight software upgrade, for our PEPSSI high energy particle spectrometer. Can’t wait to get this under way!

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2021-04-26

Spaceflight is a team sport! And on the 18th (Saturday) our team will celebrate the amazing achievement of crossing the 50 Astronomical Units distance marker— 50x as far from the Sun as Earth is! Go team!

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2021-04-12

It's Super Tuesday!

All are good mtgs, too:

- Comms scheduling in orbit
- Push back on instrument sched slip
- 1:1 w Proj Scientist
- 1:1 w Lead Engineer
- HQ/Marshall wkly tag-up
- Proj Leadership staff mtg
- Technical/Sched/Cost mtg
- JPL 4X mtg

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2021-03-10



Seemingly unrelated jobs today...

- Launch MSRR. Ever think abt how launch vehicle releases s/c w no angular momentum in any axis?
- Organizing papers about mission for pre-launch
- Awaiting NASA HQ's budget deliberations (they've got the really hard work now)

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2020-08-26

As explores outward in the Kuiper Belt, one of my jobs as mission PI is called “fuel hoarder in chief,” making sure we husband the one resource we cannot refill— our fuel. No activity that uses fuel can be scheduled without approval.

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2020-08-05

watched your launch, congratulations to you and all of your amazing team— WELCOME TO SPACE!

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2020-07-30

Can’t wait for tomorrow! Important meetings for our composition science theme team, our dust impact science team, our PICKSAR long range science observation planning group, and our weekly mission ops tag up. Exploring the Kuiper Belt NEVER gets old!!

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2020-03-30

An extensive and lengthy telecon with colleagues at ESA today.
Also a very pleasant surprise to find our mission logo adorning the background of the set celebrating the 200th anniversary of the ! https://t.co/p1bX5UZmx0

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2020-02-04

Q: What is asteroid (16) Psyche?

12,000-word A: "Observations, meteorites, and models: A pre-flight assessment of the composition and formation of (16) Psyche," accepted today !

Short A: We don't know! (Oooo the mystery! Let's go find out!)

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2020-01-30