{"id":58339,"date":"2021-01-06T23:49:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-dynamics-lab-completes-milestone-for-nasa-space-weather-mission\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T23:49:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:49:18","slug":"space-dynamics-lab-completes-milestone-for-nasa-space-weather-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-dynamics-lab-completes-milestone-for-nasa-space-weather-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Dynamics Lab Completes Milestone for NASA Space Weather Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Utah State University\u2019s <strong>Space Dynamics Laboratory<\/strong> (SDL) revealed Wednesday that it has successfully completed the Key Decision Point (KDP) C for <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE). KDP-C provides NASA approval for the project to begin final design and fabrication, known as Phase C, and establishes baselines for its official schedule and budget.<\/p>\n<p>This AWE mission is planned to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2022. AWE is part of NASA\u2019s Explorers Program under the Goddard Space Flight Center Explorers and Heliophysics Projects Division, and is led by Principal Investigator Dr. Michael J. Taylor at Utah State University. The Space Dynamics Laboratory will build the AWE instrument and is also providing project management, systems engineering, safety and mission assurance, and mission operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe approval of AWE\u2019s path forward follows a rigorous review of all technical and programmatic aspects of the project and is a critical step as we begin fabricating and testing the instrument,\u201d said Burt Lamborn, AWE project manager at SDL. \u201cUnder the leadership of NASA and Dr. Taylor, SDL is excited to execute this mission, which will provide crucial information about how terrestrial weather affects space weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah State University\u2019s Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) revealed Wednesday that it has successfully completed the Key Decision Point (KDP) C for NASA\u2019s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE). KDP-C provides NASA approval for the project to begin final design and fabrication, known as Phase C, and establishes baselines for its official schedule and budget. This AWE mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}