The document summarizes activities at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and Goddard Space Flight Center. It discusses Wallops' sounding rocket, balloon, and aircraft programs. It highlights recent accomplishments supporting missions like GPM, SMAP, and MMS. It also previews future opportunities for Wallops like the SLS, Europa mission, and PACE. The director recognizes individuals and teams for their work on projects like LDSD, HS3, and communications support.

1. Wallops Island Regional
Alliance Meeting
April 14, 2015
Chris Scolese
Director, Goddard Space Flight Center

2. NASA GSFC Installations
• GSFC Greenbelt, MD
• GSFC Wallops Flight Facility, VA
• IV&V Facility, WV
• Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NY
• Ground Stations at White Sands Complex, NM
Greenbelt
Campus
Goddard Institute for
Space Studies
Independent Verification and
Validation Facility
Wallops Flight Facility
White Sands Complex

3. Sounding Rockets
Balloon Program
Operation Ice Bridge
HS3
Antares
Wallops Flight Facility
LDSD

4. Balloon Program

5. Sounding Rocket Program

6. TDRS - M MAVEN
Curosity MSL/SAM
HS3
Suborbital Missions JWST (ISIM) Testing
Recent Accomplishments
GPM
SMAP
DSCOVR 2/11/2015 MMS
Cygnus

7. Humanity’s Big Questions
Translate the knowledge and technologies derived from
these areas of exploration to practical applications today.

8. How Do We Survive & Thrive?
GPM
GOES-R
ICESat-2
JPSS
IceBridge
IceBridge

9. Aircraft missions that have led to the development of Earth
Science spacecraft instruments
• Aircraft flights in the 80’s and 90’s led to the GSFC laser altimetry
design of the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA on the Mars
Global Surveyor and the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA).
• Laser altimetry by the WFF Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM)
started to map the height of the ice caps operationally in 1993 and
has since then provided the data set that first showed the loss of
the Greenland ice mass and is the primary instrument for
Operation IceBridge. ATM was also critical for the development of
ICESat and will be a key instrument for ICESat-2 cal/val efforts.
The 20+ year ATM Greenland time series is baseline data set for
all cryospheric missions and science efforts.
• Aircraft flights of the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS) MASTER,
AirMISR and MOPITT instruments lead to the MODIS, MOPITT
and MISR instruments on the EOS- Terra and Aqua satellites.
• The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar on the CALIPSO/CloudSat satellite was
demonstrated first on NASA aircraft flights.
MGS
ICESat/OIB
CALIPSO/CLoudSat

10. Tiamat—first sounding rocket
research flight (1945)
BAT-4—AirSTAR UAS test (April
13)
Wallops Flight Facility
Global Hawk operations—HS3
Aerodynamic flight research

11. Cubesat Development
Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector
(CuPID) CubeSat
6U, CubeSat
Dellingr
Firefly

12. Why Are We Here?
MAVEN
OSIRIS-REx
Curiosity/MSL

13. MAVEN & Curiosity Results

14. What is Out There?
JWST
TESS
NICER
ASTRO-H

15. Swift
WFF-managed Balloon missions have contributed in
essential ways to GSFC scientific spacecraft missions.
• Over 30 spacecraft instrument in the last 4
decades first flew on balloons.
• Balloon flights of the differential radiometer and Far
IR spectrum of the CMB laid the critical ground work
for the design of instruments for COBE and WMAP.
• Detectors on the RHESSI mission were first
developed and demonstrated on balloon-borne
instruments.
• The scintillating fiber trajectory detector on the ACE
Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer was demonstrated
first in a balloon flight.
• On the EOS-Aura satellite to study the
atmosphere's chemistry and dynamics, the MLS,
TES, and HIRDLS instruments all trace their heritage
to instruments that first flew on balloons.
• GSFC In-Focus Balloon flights of the cadmium-zinc-
telluride CZT array led to the design the Swift Burst
Alert Telescope (BAT) instrument.
COBE
RHESSI
WMAP
Aura

16. JWST Video

17. Little Joe and Mercury crew capsule testing
Wallops Flight Facility
Max Launch Abort System test—July 2009
Cygnus Cargo
Spacecraft
integration

18. Partners ISS
NICER
CATS
GEDI
CREAM

19. Future Opportunities
AFTA
EVI Competition
Discovery AOs
Ammonia Leak
Locator Tool on ISS
Asteroid Retrieval Mission
ATLAST
Raven demonstration on ISS
SLS
EUROPA
PACE
Future Land Imaging

20. Enabling the science of 2035+ at GSFC
2015
2018
+
2020-
2026
Fly PACE,
WFIRST,
Earth Lidar
observatory,
Mars
recon/telesat,
continue
Landsat,
next-gen
GRACE, new
EVM’s,
SpaceCubes
2
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3
5
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Leverage
JWST, fly
MMS,
OSIRIS,
MOMA
(ExoMars),
and LDCM,
plus GEDI,
Suomi, JPSS
Legacy of HST,
EOS, Landsat,
LRO, GPM, EO-
1, etc
Start path for
next gen ES
with NOAA,
USGS
Earth
Sensor
Webs
(REMS)
In situ
organic
analysis
Labs to
targets
(not all
SR)
Giant
Apertures
and
Formations
New
Sensor
techniques
QE
Planetary
probes
TODAY:

21. 2014 Agency Honor Award Selections
Outstanding Leadership Medal
John Hickman - Code 810
Steven Kremer - Code 840
Exceptional Achievement Medal
Frank Bellinger - Code 800
Douglas Voss - Code 840
Exceptional Service Medal
John Dickerson - Code 840
David Stuchlik - Code 820
Gregory Waters - Code 569
Exceptional Public Service Medal
Joseph Jimmerson/LIT and Associates, Inc. - Code 840
Group Achievement Award
2013 Wallops Launch Support Team Code 800
LDSD Balloon Launch Tower Development Team Code 820
NASA Sounding rockets Program (NSRP) Team Code 810
Wallops Communications Branch Code 763
Wallops CubeSat Ground Station Support Team Code 453
Wallops Office of Communications Team Code 130
2014 Robert H. Goddard Award Recipients Engineering (Individual)
Scott Hesh - Code 569
Jeffrey Dorman - Code 589
Engineering (Team)
Wallops Arc-Second Pointer Team Code 598
WFF Awards and Recognition
Engineering (Team) Cont.
Goddard Wallops Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentine
(HS3) Capabilities Development Team Code 830
Low Density Supersonic Decelerators (LDSD)
Project Team Code 840
New Opportunities Captured (Team)
Wallops Field Carrier Landing Practice Team Code 840
Professional Administrative (Individual)
Teena Haugh - Code 201 Bloxom, Julie - Code 810
Science (Team)
GPM Ground Validation Team Code 610 - Petersen, Walter
Secretarial/Clerical (Individual)
Sandra Banks - Code 610
Customer Service (Team)
GSFC's WFF Hurrican and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3)
Pilot and Ground Crew Operations Team Code 830
NASA's GSFC WFF C130 Aircraft Arctic Radiation
IceBridge Sea & Ice Experiment (ARISE) Mission Team Code 830
Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity (Individual)
Sheryl Eni - Code 271
Benjamin Cervantes - Code 589
Thomas Pittman - Code 800
Mission & Enabling Support (Individual)
Aaron Darby - Code 763 Hall, Brian - Code 840
Safety (Individual)
John Hickman - Code 810

22. Dr. Joyce L. Winterton received
the “Eastern Shore Community
College’s Virginia Community
College System Chancellor’s Award
in the Career Pathways category”
on November 3, 2014
Virginia Space Grant and NASA Wallops Flight Facility
staff accept the Programs That Work award for the
Virginia Space Coast (VSC) Scholars program. The VSC
Scholars program is done in partnership with NASA
Wallops.
Wallops Safety Award presented to
the Antares Volunteer Team
Wallops Awards Ceremony
December 5, 2014
Wallops Krieger Award presented
to the LDSD Team
2014 Robert H. Goddard Award Ceremony – April 8, 2015
Ms. Amy Davis was named the
Eastern Shore Community
(ESSC) 2015 Distinguished
Alumni on March 27, 2015
WFF Awards and Recognition