Daring Mighty Things. AFCEA Los Angeles. Larry James (Lt. Gen. USAF, Ret.), Deputy Director. a presentation to. January 14, 2015

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1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Daring Mighty Things a presentation to AFCEA Los Angeles January 14, 2015 Larry James (Lt. Gen. USAF, Ret.), Deputy Director Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology

2 JPL History s Today s 2

3 JPL is part of NASA and Caltech Federally-funded (NASA-owned) Research and Development Center (FFRDC) University Operated (Caltech) $1.73B Business Base 5,000 Employees 167 Acres (includes 12 acres leased for parking) 139 Buildings; 36 Trailers 673,000 Net Square Feet of Office Space 906,000 Net Square Feet of Non- Office Space (e.g., Labs)

4 19 Spacecraft and 10 Instruments Across the Solar System and Beyond Two Voyagers (1977) Cassini (1997) ACRIMSAT (1999) QuickSCAT (1999) Mars Odyssey (2001) Jason 2 (2008) GRACE (2002) Opportunity (2003) Spitzer (2003) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005) CloudSat (2006) Dawn (2007) NEOWISE (2009) Aquarius (2011) Juno (2011) Curiosity (2011) Instruments: NuSTAR (2012) Earth Science MISR AIRS TES MLS ASTER OPALS RapidScat (1999) (2002) (2004) (2004) (2009) (2014) (2014) OCO-2 (2014) Planetary MARSIS MIRO Diviner (2003) (2004) (2004)

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6 Curiosity Exploration of Yellowknife Bay in Gale Crater Green-grey Mars Clay material: formed in neutral ph water Detection of key elements needed for life Mars was habitable!!!

7 InSight Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport Launch: March 27, 2016

8 Mars 2020 Mission SuperCam: Remote microimaging and spectroscopy (laser induced breakdown, visible and infrared, Raman and fluorescence) Remote mineralogy and chemistry, including organic detection RIMFAX (Radar Imager for Mars subsurface experiment): Ground penetrating radar Discover and map sub-surface geologic structure to 500 m Mastcam-Z: Improved stereo zoom camera, strong MSL heritage Geologic context imagery and multispectral mineralogy PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry): X-ray fluorescence and micro-imaging Mapping elemental composition at the ~100 um scale SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals): Laser fluorescence and Raman and micro-imaging Mapping mineralogy and organic composition at the ~50 um scale MEDA (Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer): Weather station with strong MSL heritage Temperature, humidity, wind, and dust analyzers MOXIE (Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment): Convert CO2 to O2 as possible future resource Human Exploration and Operations Directorate contribution October 25, 2014 JPL Report to Committee on JPL, Caltech Board of Trustees 8

9 Vision for the Next 2 Decades Accomplish Mars Sample Return via a series of missions Mars 2020 Create Sample Cache Retrieve Cache And Launch Into Mars Orbit Capture And Return Sample To Earth Sample Handling Facility Preparation For Human Exploration Of Mars: Precursory Technologies/Missions October 25, 2014 JPL Report to Committee on JPL, Caltech Board of Trustees 9

10 Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD)

11 Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM) 11

12 Mars Helicopter Under Consideration October 25, 2014 JPL Report to Committee on JPL, Caltech Board of Trustees 12

13 Low Density Supersonic Decelerator Life in Icy Satellites Follow with charts on - Europa - Future missions beyond Europa - Montage of Discovery proposals Europa Enceladus Europa Titan Callisto 13

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15 Juno Understanding Jupiter and how planets and solar systems form Now three years into our Journey 21 months away from Jupiter Orbit Insertion Arrives on the 4 th of July 2016 X Current position JOI 7/4/

16 Europa

17 Europa Next Outer Planet Flagship Mission A mission to explore habitability of Europa Highest priority (along with Mars Sample Return) of the NRC Decadal Committee A Mission Concept Review just completed The mission concept and design is brilliant, enabled by an in-depth knowledge and close collaboration between science and engineering, two highly capable organizations, and analytical tools not available in years past. 17

18 Total confirmed: 1789 Kepler confirmed: 1004 Kepler candidates: 4175 Image credit: Kepler Project, ARC

19 Introducing the Exoplanet Travel Bureau

20 WFIRST-AFTA Coronagraph WFIRST Coronagraph Instrument Exoplanet Direct imaging Exoplanet Spectroscopy 20

21 Starshade

22 Understanding our Planet Will sea level continue to rise at the current rate? Will water availability change in the future? How are carbon storage, ecosystems, and biodiversity changing? How can we better prepare for extreme events such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes?

23 California s Central Valley Groundwater Changes from GRACE Landerer, JPL

24 JPL Data Science Agile Science Onboard Analysis Preparing for exascale computing Challenge: Too much data, too fast; cannot transport data efficiently enough Future Solutions: Onboard computation and data science Today: SMAP GB/day Tomorrow: NISAR (2020): 86 TB/day Extreme Data Volumes Data Triage Challenge: Data collection capacity at the instrument outstrips data transport and data storage capacity Future Solutions: Dynamic architectures to scale data processing and triage extreme data streams Distributed Data Analytics Challenge: Data distributed in massive archives; many different types of measurements Future Solutions: Distributed data analytics; uncertainty quantification 24

25 Cyber Security Research Our Goal is to confer resilience against cyber attacks and failures to mission/safety critical infrastructures Our Approach is comprised of the following three dimensions: Advance the state-of-the-art for defensive technologies Advance the state-of-the-art in model-based reasoning Create a test environment to evaluate new technologies

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