Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/08/2019
7:00 pm
Location
Cal Tech - Baxter Hall
Category(ies)
Ridiculous World of Scientific Ballooning.
Human flight began with the balloon and today it is the last bastion of guerrilla science. Scientific ballooning provides a well-tested, reliable, low-cost, moderate risk platform that helps prepare the next generation of scientists, engineers, and instruments. This talk will take a look at how our oldest flight technology actually paves the way for the future.
Speaker:
Jose V. Siles, Ph.D.
RF Engineer; LO Subsystem Lead and Antarctic Flight Campaign Team Member (STO-2, Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory)
Laura Jones-Wilson, Ph.D.
Systems Engineer (Europa Clipper); former Project Systems Engineer (STABLE: Subarcsecond Telescope And BaLloon Experiment)
Location:
Thursday, February 7, 2019, 7pm
The von Kármán Auditorium at JPL
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA
Friday, February 8, 2019, 7pm
Caltech’s Ramo Auditorium
1200 E California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
The Theodore von Kármán Lecture Series, named after JPL’s founder, and presented by JPL’s Office of Communication and Education, brings the excitement of the space program’s missions, instruments and other technologies to both JPL employees and the local community.
Lectures take place twice per month, on consecutive Thursdays and Fridays. The Thursday lectures take place in JPL’s Theodore von Kármán Auditorium and are streamed live via Ustream, and Friday lectures take place at Pasadena City College’s Vosloh Forum. Both start at 7:00 PM. Admission and parking are free for all lectures, no reservations are required, and seating is limited.
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