Small Satellite Missions
Thu, 11 Apr, 09:00 - 10:30 EDT (UTC -4)
Location: Edison D
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Ralf Bennartz, Vanderbilt University and S. Joseph Munchak, The Tomorrow Companies, Inc.
Track: Small satellite instruments and missions
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Thu, 11 Apr, 09:00 - 09:15 EDT (UTC -4)

#1: First-Year Results from the NASA TROPICS Constellation Mission
William Blackwell, Vince Leslie, Adam Milstein, Michael Pieper, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, United States
Thu, 11 Apr, 09:15 - 09:30 EDT (UTC -4)

#2: NASA’s Polarized Submillimeter Ice-Cloud Radiometer (PolSIR): Observing the diurnal cycle of ice clouds in the tropics and sub-tropics
Ralf Bennartz, Vanderbilt University, United States; Dong Wu, NASA, United States
Thu, 11 Apr, 09:30 - 09:45 EDT (UTC -4)

#3: The Tomorrow.io Microwave Sounder Constellation: Mission and Instrument Overview
S. Joseph Munchak, The Tomorrow Companies, Inc., United States; William Blackwell, Michael DiLiberto, R. Vincent Leslie, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, United States; Emma Watson, Scott Williams, The Tomorrow Companies, Inc., United States
Thu, 11 Apr, 09:45 - 10:00 EDT (UTC -4)

#4: Investigating Tropical Convective Updrafts: The INCUS Mission and Dynamic Microwave Radiometer
Maryam Salim, Pekka Kangaslahti, Sharmila Padmanabhan, Shannon Brown, Mary Morris, Ahmed Mohamed, Jose Siles, Violet Torossian, NASA-JPL, United States
Thu, 11 Apr, 10:00 - 10:15 EDT (UTC -4)

#5: Smart Ice Cloud Sensing (SMICES) SmallSat Combined Radar/Radiometer Instrument

Mehmet Ogut, Pekka Kangaslahti, Akim Babenko, Omkar Pradhan, Isaac Ramos, Xavier Bosch-Lluis, Joan Munoz-Martin, Joelle Cooperrider, William Chun, Simik Ghookasian, Jason Swope, Peyman Tavallali, Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States; William Deal, Caitlyn Cooke, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, United States
Thu, 11 Apr, 10:15 - 10:30 EDT (UTC -4)

#6: Estimation of Surface Rain Rate from Multi-frequency Millimeter-wave Radiometer Observations from Small Satellites
Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan, V. Chandrasekar, Steven C. Reising, Colorado State University, United States; Shannon T. Brown, California Institute of Technology, United States