Lisa May

CEO of Murphian Consulting LLC. Technical leadership, systems engineering, and strategic alignment. Follow for space, tech, pro tips and Murphian news.

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@Dr_ThomasZ @loriglaze @NASASolarSystem Congratulations!

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@torybruno @GeoffdBarrett This is why Brother Luck named his restaurant in the Springs “Four”—you can get all four seasons in one day in CO

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Oh and my *two* sons are both home today! It may be pi day, but two seems to be number

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Today is a good day. It feels like spring outside, I’ve finished two draft deliverables, and I had the opportunity to recommend *two* brilliant colleagues for positions #seniorprofessionalgoals #payitforward

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@ltelkins @NASAPsyche But MOS/GDS PDR comes later, right?

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@elakdawalla @dwcssl can you help? Is Dave Brain active on this website?

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@JimBridenstine A line item for #MarsSampleReturn is truly welcome news

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@Dr_ThomasZ I’m looking forward to the same announcement regarding #Mars samples that have been carefully curated for decades

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@ltelkins @greg_asner @planetlabs @ASU @ErolFoundation In the 90s, I delivered and flight tested a prototype of an airborne UHF radar to measure the biomass of triple canopy rainforests. Tests were successful (within +/- 5% of ground truth).

#BioSAR #ZAIAmelex #CarbonSequestration

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@dougbrec @SciGuySpace Human rated/crewed

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Opportunity's Last Look

@NASA declared the @MarsRovers mission complete in February, but the final image has just been processed. Check out annotated and interactive full-resolution versions of the panorama at https://t.co/ovUyRyI7WK

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@jeff_foust Wait. What?

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@_Astro_Nerd_ How about engineers? 🖐🏼

[Marcia Smith @SpcPlcyOnline]

Re Europa Clipper on a commercial rocket, not SLS, that's not news. NASA said the same thing in its budget request last year. Congress nevertheless directed that it be launched on SLS.
And last year NASA said launch in 2025. This year it's 2023, also as required by law.

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The budget request covers JWST, but zeroes out @NASAWFIRST and #STEM engagement, among other puts and takes.

[Lindy Elkins-Tanton @ltelkins]

Let's keep finding ways to make "failure" a synonym for "failure is just data" and "still working on it, because I am determined and this thing is worth it!"

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In honor of #InternationalWomensDay : the women of the @MAVEN2Mars team. Overall still the best team I’ve worked with and—probably not coincidentally—the one w the most women

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Feed your brain with space facts this #NationalCerealDay. 🥣

"Cereal" is derived from Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and grain. Ceres is also the name of the dwarf planet explored by @NASA_Dawn. https://t.co/hA3ZGiFCD3

[MAVEN Mission to Mars @MAVEN2Mars]

#MAVEN today performed an aerobraking maneuver (0.2 m/s ∆V) to decrease the periapsis (lowest) altitude by 1.2 km. MAVEN’s periapsis altitude is now 125.5 km and the apoapsis (highest) altitude is 5,400 km. The density of #Mars' atmosphere at periapsis is 3.4 kg/km³.

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For the final plenary of #IEEEAerospace2019 @cyberlyra is sharing her research about how/why the #MarsRovers team was...err, is so special