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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Space administration"”.
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VLF instrumentation for ground-based D-region studies
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant NsG-511
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Design and Analysis of a Thermal Shield System for the Starprobe Spacecraft.
… Center (ARC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of an unmanned spacecraft for close-range solar observation.
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A Case Study of NASA's Columbia Tragedy: An Organizational Learning and Sensemaking Approach to Organizational Crisis.
… much attention as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The high-profile agency frequently captures attention of the media in both positive and negative contexts. This thesis takes a case study approach using organizational learning and sensemaking theories to investigate …
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Analysis of Aerosol Optical Depth for South Korea
… To this end, both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States and the National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea have led field studies to investigate the air pollution of the country to find a way to mitigate air pollution levels. This …
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On Being A NASA Flight Surgeon
… working for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) between the years of 1981 and 2011. This time frame represents the period known as the Shuttle Era. 51 NASA flight surgeons served operationally in this role, and 47 of them were contacted and provided the survey for …
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Control-structure interaction mitigation for NASA's Gateway
… Gateway is an advanced National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) concept for a multi-module space station to be placed in a near rectilinear halo orbit around the Moon sometime in the next decade. The first module of the Gateway is known as the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), and …
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Application of Systems Engineering Principles and Methods to an Advanced Technology Research Project
… sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and a consortium of industry, universities, research institutes, and state and local aviation authorities. Its goals are to show that the introduction of emerging airborne and …
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A study of US government's satellite incumbents and follow-on competitions
… undertaken by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Air Force (USAF) and the United Stated Navy (USN).
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The Steep Climb to Low Earth Orbit: A History of the Space Elevator Community's Battle Against the Rocket Paradigm
This thesis examines the growth of the space elevator community in America from 1975 to 2010. It argues that the continued practical failures of the space elevator, a proposed technology for efficiently transporting payloads and people into space without conventional propulsion sources, resulted …
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MONITORING OF NORTH AMERICAN SNOW COVER AND ENSO EFFECTS
… to 2010. The NASA ((National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Earth Observing System Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)/Terra satellite provided every eight-day (MOD10C2) and monthly (MOD10CM) Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) products were used in this study. These both …
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Design for Decline: Executive Management and the Eclipse of NASA
… development of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from the creation of its parent organization in 1915 through the 1960s. It focuses especially on the relationships which the organization's leadership established with external groups and individuals, as well as with its own …
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The SpaseCroissant Oven: Automatic Metadata Generation For Open-Source Space Weather Datasets
… organizations such as National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). These major scientific repositories provide their own metadata standards, such as NASA’s Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) schema but context from this metadata can often be lost during data processing. …
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System characterization and online mass property identification of the SPHERES formation flight testbed
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other entities in the aerospace industry have recently been considering distributed architectures for many space applications, such as space-based interferometry. Whether the craft in such a system are structurally connected or flown in …
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The relationship between precipitation and electromagnetic signals in the Schumann resonances
… provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic Atmospherics Administration (NOAA). Spatial and quantitative analyses reveal a rough proportionality between pairs of these three quantities as well as the existence of an apparent planetary wave …
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Dynamic Electrothermal Model of a Sputtered Thermopile Thermal Radiation Detector for Earth Radiation Budget Applications
… sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aimed at evaluating the global energy balance. Current scanning radiometers used for CERES consist of thin-film thermistor bolometers viewing the Earth through a Cassegrain telescope. The Thermal Radiation Group, a …
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Dynamic simulation of solar calibration of the total, Earth- viewing channel of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
… in Earth orbit by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Its purpose is to monitor those components of the Earth radiation budget which influence the weather and climate. The active cavity radiometer (ACR) instruments on board the ERBE satellites are periodically calibrated …
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Head and Neck Injury Risk Predicted by Finite Element ATDs and Human Body Models in the Aerospace Landing Environment
The advent of commercial crewed spaceflight has increased the number of people expected to travel to space and back. Unlike motor vehicle crashes (MVCs), in which 2.3 crashes are expected for every million vehicle miles traveled in the US, spaceflight occupants are guaranteed to experience dynamic …
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Optical analysis of the ERBE scanning thermistor bolometer radiometer using the Monte Carlo method
… was started by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide data to the meteorological community to predict long-term weather and climate trends. Three satellites employing nonscanning active cavity and scanning thermistor bolometer radiometers are orbiting the Earth to …
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Protest Space: A Study of Technology Choice, Perception of Risk, and Space Exploration
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to create a program for the human exploration of Mars that will rely heavily on nuclear technologies. NASA has an established nuclear technology program that recently became the focus of public protest over the risk from the …
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