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Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771

ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM and SCHNEEBAUM AWARD CEREMONY

Monday, May 12, 2014 / 3:30 PM, Building 3 Auditorium

Photo of David Kusnierkiewicz.
image of Solar Probe Plus

Dave Kusnierkiewicz

"Extreme Spacecraft Engineering"

ABSTRACT -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Space Department has the privilege of conducting investigations of some of the most extreme places in the solar system for NASA. From exploring the Pluto system, 4.5 light-hours from Earth, to flying into the outer corona of the sun itself, or living in the Van Allen radiation belts around the Earth, APL spacecraft are (or will be) contributing to discoveries from one end of our solar system to the other. The challenges of delivering the science from these extreme environments at reasonable cost requires disciplined, innovate engineering. How these challenges are being met on the New Horizons, MESSENGER, Solar Probe Plus, and Van Allen Probes spacecraft will be discussed.

SPEAKER -- Mr. David Kusnierkiewicz has worked in the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory since 1983. He has designed and built hardware for many NASA and DoD space missions, and was the Mission System Engineer for the NASA TIMED and New Horizons Missions. He has been the Chief Engineer of the Space Department since 2004. He received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1976 and 1982 respectively.




Engineering Colloquium home page: https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov