Welcome to the Sciences and Exploration Data Analysis (SESDA II) home page. SESDA II is the premier space and Earth science contract at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, held by ADNET Systems, Inc. ADNET, RSIS and Honeywell form TEAM ADNET. About 300 scientists and engineers provide vital support to NASA under the SESDA II contract. Watch this site for exciting SESDA II news, events and job opportunities.
SESDA II News
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SESDA II STEREO Team Help Support the Phoenix Mars Landing
June 4, 2008
SESDA II staff on the STEREO Team supported the recent Phoenix spacecraft landing on Mars by monitoring the space weather environment at Mars orbit. Staff used observations from the two vantage points of STEREO's twin spacecraft to obtain unique views of the solar surface (see accompanying figure). These data were used to detect solar storms that could adversely impact the Phoenix spacecraft and potentially disrupt the landing. To assist with landing operations, staff created a dedicated Web page (http://stereo.nascom.nasa.gov/phoenix_landing/) that provided near real-time STEREO images and solar wind measurements that could be accessed by NASA personnel.
The Sun in the Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) as seen by the STEREO Ahead spacecraft
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SESDA II Staff Among Those Cited For Improving NASA's IT Security Posture
June 3, 2008The NASA Administrator recognized the IT Security Certification and Accreditation (C&A) team with a Group Achievement Award (GAA) for its outstanding success in implementing an IT security certification and accreditation (C&A) Program for NASA's information systems. The group, which includes seven SESDA II staff members, was cited by the NASA Administrator for having "demonstrated outstanding dedication and diligence by not only meeting the minimum requirements under a very aggressive schedule, but also producing quality, detailed, value-added products and making significant improvements in the IT security posture of NASA."
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ADNET SYSTEMS RECEIVES 2008 GODDARD CONTRACTOR EXCELLENCE AWARD
May 9, 2008
ADNET Systems, Inc. has been selected as the recipient of the 2008 Goddard Contractor Excellence Award. The highly competitive honor is not awarded every year, and is determined by a variety of factors: technical, schedule, and cost performance; education and outreach; diversity; health and safety initiatives; and others. The evaluation committee examined performance in all of these factors for all applicants' GSFC contracts over the past three years. In ADNET's case, a primary source of such data was TEAM ADNET's outstanding work on SESDA II. It is our stellar performance in all areas of this major contract that drove our selection. TEAM ADNET's staff has pulled together in a way that has made GSFC sit up and take notice!
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Recognition for SESDA II NASA Communications Outreach
May 6, 2008SESDA II staffer Debbi Mclean was cited by NASA's Office for Communication Planning for her creative design of a Science Mission Directorate exhibit. Her citation reads: "Your Science Mission Directorate Exhibit Panel has been selected by NASA's Communications Material Review as one of the best designs for 2008. The Gallery Award recognizes your communication's excellent design creativity, compliance with style guide standards, visual effectiveness, and practicality. This decision was made by your peers... Your accomplishment helps us achieve our goals of clear, elegant and consistent design to enhance the Agency's ability to explain NASA's mission and results".
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SESDA II Staff Gains Funding to Document Historical Ozone Program
April 15, 2008
Dr. Steven Lloyd, SESDA II's lead scientist at the Goddard DISC, has garnered funding to provide complete documentation of the entire Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) program.
The TOMS ozone satellites have been in orbit for almost three decades. Over that time, there have been a number of separate TOMS instruments (Nimbus 7, Meteor-3, ADEOS and EarthProbe), a sequence of retrieval algorithms, and a growing number of data products (total column ozone, Lambertian Equivalent Reflectivity (LER), Aerosol Index (AI), surface UV-B, etc.). While details of various aspects of the TOMS program have been individually published and documented in reports over the years, there has never been a single document that records the details of the instrument, its algorithms and data products. Now, in an effort led by Dr. Lloyd, NASA will have important descriptions of the TOMS instruments, its precursor (e.g., the Nimbus 4 BUV instrument), and its successor (the Aura OMI instrument) in order to track and learn from the development of instrumental and algorithmic changes.
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SESDA II Staff design were selected "best of" works by NASA HQ Communications Materials Review (CMR)
The Science Mission Directorate Exhibit Panels, designed by Debbi F. McLean, were selected the "best of" works by NASA HQ CMR. The four separate backlit exhibit panels were designed utilizing beautiful NASA imagery representing the four Science Mission Directorate themes of Astrophysics, Heliophysics, Planetary, and Earth Science.
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STEREO Mission on YouTube and IMAX
SESDA II staff have created a new YouTube site dedicated to videos from the STEREO mission (youtube.com/user/stereovideos). The site provides a fascinating look into the unique and exciting science produced by the STEREO mission. In addition to several stunning movies, you will find some amusing comments from viewers worldwide. If YouTube is not your thing, head on down to the IMAX theatre at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (www.si.edu/imax) where the STEREO mission is playing in a breath-taking new 3-D High Definition motion picture called the "3D SUN."
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SESDA II Posters Storm First Code 600 New Year's Poster Party
SESDA II staff presented posters displaying their current work at the First Code 600 New Year's Poster Party hosted by Laurie Leshin on January 16 from 2-4, at the Bldg. 28 Atrium.
Although we didn't win any prizes, the event was an excellent opportunity to make professional contacts and learn about science and related activities on center.
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