Next Tuesday, a conference of three NASA leaders will take place at the Madrid Planetarium.
MADRID, October 19 (EUROPE PRESS) –
Next Tuesday, October 22, at 17:30, the Madrid Planetarium will host the NASA: Science, Technology and Space Communications conference, which will be attended by the three heads of the NASA Space Agency.
This meeting is part of the “Singularities” conference series, held from October to December and organized by this space, dependent on the field of culture, tourism and sports, with the aim of supporting international research and attracting leaders from the aerospace and industrial industries to Madrid. fields of exploration of the Universe, as reported in a statement from the Consistory.
All conferences in the series will be broadcast live in streaming mode and will later be available on the YouTube channel of the Madrid Planetarium. Tickets are free when booked in advance on the Madrid Planetarium website.
Three leaders of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have been invited to host the conference. They are Andrea I. Rezzaghi, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Office of Management and Oversight; Charles Norton, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, NASA/JPL; and Kevin Coggins, associate associate administrator for NASA’s SCaN program.
In English, speakers will highlight work done on various NASA missions and in third countries. Of these, more than 100 depend on two SCaN networks, the Near Space Network and the Deep Space Network, whose mission is to monitor Earth’s climate and the effects of climate change, support lunar exploration, discover the solar system and beyond. and look back in time to understand the origins of the universe.
On these missions, space communications provide a critical link to our planet, from the Voyager mission, which explores the reaches of our solar system, to astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
THREE NASA LEADERS
Andrea I. Razzaghi is a director at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Prior to joining JPL, Andrea held leadership positions at the institution’s headquarters, including Deputy Director for Astrophysics, with a portfolio of more than 20 NASA missions and international partnerships, and Deputy Director for Planetary Sciences, where she was responsible for other tasks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. more than a dozen NASA missions and international partnerships. He worked as an analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
For his part, Charles Norton is the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory Deputy Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for strategic technology planning, research and implementation of JPL technologies into flight missions. During a nearly 30-year career at JPL and NASA, he led and conducted research spanning high-performance scientific computing, instrument and information systems technologies, and small satellite science and technology missions.
He has received numerous awards, including the JPL Lew Allen Award, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, NASA Software of the Year, and the NASA Distinguished Public Leadership Medal. He is also an associate member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Finally, Kevin Coggins received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and is the Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA’s SCaN program. It is responsible for the development, acquisition and management of navigation and communications services to support and satisfy all requirements of NASA and other government agencies for human and robotic space exploration programs on Earth, the Moon, Mars and deep space. Coggins is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, where he was a reconnaissance team leader.
NASA’s primary mission is to try to uncover scientific mysteries, from the complexities of our planet to the mysteries of the known universe. Much of this work is performed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) through robotic space exploration.