Who's using ASIST?

What projects are using ASIST?

ASIST can be used in all phases of a mission, from instrument development [DEV], spacecraft integration and test [I&T], and post-launch operations [OPS]. The list below shows ASIST's role in each of our missions.

ASIST's missions

Spacecrafts:

[I&T] X-Ray Timing Explorer (XTE), launched December, 1995.
[I&T] Tropical Rainforest Measurement Mission (TRMM), launched November, 1997.
[I&T] Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE), launched June, 1999.
[OPS] Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE), launched March, 2000 (and ended later).
*[DEV], [I&T], [OPS] Earth-Orbiter 1 (EO-1); launched November, 2000.
[DEV], [I&T], [OPS] Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP); launched June, 2001 (and ended in late 2010).
*[DEV], [I&T], [OPS] ST5 launched March 2006 (and ended in June 2006)
[DEV], [I&T], [OPS] SDO, launched February 2010.
[DEV], [I&T], [OPS] GPM, being developed at GSFC.
[DEV], [I&T], [OPS] MMS, being developed at GSFC.

Instruments:

*[DEV] CIRS-- An instrument on the Cassini spacecraft
*[DEV] XRS - A high resolution X-Ray Spectrometer which measures the spectra of X-ray sources.
*[DEV] IRAC--The infrared advanced camera.
*[DEV] Goddard Electronics Module (GEM) which was on Lewis, an SSTI mission
*[DEV] SLAM - An instrument which measures accelarations during launches.*This instrument is called SLAMMD
[DEV] GLAS - A laser altimeter on ICESat.
*[DEV] MBLA - Another laser altimeter on VCL.
*[DEV] XRS-2 - A rebuild of thehigh resolution X-Ray Spectrometer which measures the spectra of X-ray sources on ASTRO-E2
[DEV] XRS-3 - Yet another rebuild of the high resolution X-Ray Spectrometer which measures the spectra of X-ray sources on ASTRO-H

Other Component Development:

*[DEV] JWST IC&DH - The instrument processor on JWST.
*[DEV] JWST OSIM - An optical simulator for JWST. .
*[DEV] Solid State Recorder Development for Hubble Space Telescope
*[DEV] Solid State Recorder Development for Landsat-7
*[DEV] Express Logistics Carrier (ELC) 1,2,3,4 and 5, which are currently mounted to the International Space Station
*[DEV] SMAP - The radiometer used in an instrument on the SMAP mission.

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