Code 555 Projects and Missions

Supporting Current Missions and Projects

  • Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
    • Space flight L-band radiometer development, algorithm development, Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) detection and mitigation for soil moisture
  • Aquarius
    • Lead space flight L-band radiometer development for ocean salinity
  • Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Ground Validation Project
    • Lead development and deployment of aircraft radars High Altitude Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HiWRAP) (Ku and Ka-band), EXRAD (ER-2 X-band Radar), Cloud Radar System CRS (X, Ku, Ka, W bands), Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (CoSMIR) (V, W, and G-bands), and ground radar Dual Frequency Dual Polarized Doppler Radar D3R (Ku, Ka bands) for precipitation measurements
  • Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
    • RF engineering for the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) instrument
  • Space Geodesy Project (SGP)/Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)
    • Lead Radio Frequency (RF) system engineering for the next-generation VLBI ground observatory
  • Sensing Hazards with Operational Unmanned Technology (SHOUT)
    • Lead aircraft radar development and deployment, algorithm development