Project Description: 

Major: BS Aerospace Engineering Company: Honeyell Technology Solutions, Inc. (HTSI) Mentor: Rose Wood Code: 581.4 - Systems Integration and Engineering

EOS stands at the vanguard of environmental research at NASA. Through an armada of spacecraft, EOS weaves a grand tapestry of information chronicling the Earth’s major environmental systems and interactions between them. Of equal importance are the anthropogenic environmental changes, which can only be observed over the expanse of years. Therefore, over a period of fifteen years, the satellites will monitor geological activity, climate fluctuations, atmospheric composition, radiation levels, and ice behavior in an effort to gain progress in understanding Earth.

On the front lines of the program, Honeywell Technological Solutions, Inc. (HTSI) controls procedures of operations and management for EDOS. Through the MOMS contract, it is the responsibility of HTSI to ensure the operation of and processing of raw data for TERRA, AQUA, AURA, and ICES at EOS satellites. Information relays from the spacecraft to ground stations at four different locations: Wallops, Alaska, White Sands in New Mexico, and Norway’s Svalbard station. Each ground contact sends the data to EDOS’s Level Zero Processing Facility (LZPF) at Goddard Space Flight Center, where it is subsequently recorded, compressed, packaged, and shipped to customers, including NASA. From there, data is scrutinized for information in an effort to understand the planet. With increased knowledge of Earth’s environment, how it functions, and how people affect it, humanity has a chance to clean up and save its only home.

Contribution:

As a summer intern with Honeywell-TSI, it was Dean’s responsibility to assistant in daily data tasks and increase system productivity. Dean was to check the quality of recorded EOS satellite data, ensure that no vital packets were missing, and fulfill data replacement requests. All errors were recorded in data dump summaries, but some of these were considered to be detrimental to the research. Reading through these files to discern errors can become very difficult, so Dean created a program that could read through the files for him. Basically, it would comb the file for errors, cross-references them with other files, and output a list of significant anomalies. At the end of the summer, Dean intended to have the program run on the internet to analyze the summaries on the EDOS server.