This award recognizes spacecraft operation specialists who make exceptional contributions to the success of their space mission.
The USGS Landsat 5 Flight Operations Anomaly Team is Ron Smilek, Steve Covington, Sergio Hasebe, John Rowe, John Gasch, Claef Hakun, Genghmun Eng, Javier Lecha, Marco Toral, and Dave Lorenz.
Over the course of six months, the team solved a problem with both the satellite’s downlink communications and with the solar array drive.
The engraved crystal trophy was officially awarded on June 21, 2006 at the SpaceOps 2006 Conference’s gala dinner in Rome. The International Committee on Technical Interchange for Space Mission Operations and Ground Data Systems (SpaceOps) is part of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Webinar Recording Available: Advancing Science Capabilities with Data Harmonization & NASA’s Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) Products
June 1, 2022
This webinar provides an introduction to HLS data, services, and tools and shows you how to find resources to work with the data; visualize, search for, and access the data through NASA Worldview and Earthdata Search; it also demonstrates how to use the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) tool to visualize HLS data to monitor fires and floods.
