NASA STP-2 PRE-LAUNCH TECHNOLOGY TV SHOW, June 23, 2019, KSC, 12:00 pm ET (webcast)

NASA TV will air a “prelaunch technology TV show” on June 23, 2019 at 12:00 pm ET from Kennedy  Space Center, FL where experts will discuss the NASA technology payloads aboard the STP-2 mission.  STP-2 is scheduled to launch on a Falcon Heavy on June 24, 2019.

Participants include:

• Todd Ely and Jill Seubert, interplanetary navigators at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who are also the principal and deputy principal investigators for the Deep Space Atomic Clock. They will explain the relationship between time and navigation as well as the new space clock that could change how we navigate on the Moon, to Mars and beyond.
• Christopher McLean, principal investigator for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission at Ball Aerospace, and Joe Cassady, executive director of space at Aerojet Rocketdyne. They will explain how a non-toxic fuel and new propulsion system could take the small satellite revolution beyond what it is today.
• Nicola Fox, director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, will discuss the Space Environment Testbeds and how its four experiments will reveal the ways local space weather affects spacecraft hardware.
• Rick Doe, payload program manager at SRI International, will share how two CubeSats making up the Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment will work with six other satellites to study irregularities in Earth’s upper atmosphere that interfere with GPS and communications signals.