April 10
Autonomous Surveys and Community ToOs on the UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX): Towards a Science Operations Center without Humans in the Loop
Speaker: Dr. Leo Singer, GSFC
Abstract: The UltraViolet EXplorer (UVEX) is a wide-field ultraviolet space telescope selected as a NASA Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) mission for launch in 2030. UVEX will undertake deep, cadenced surveys of the entire sky to probe low mass galaxies and explore the ultraviolet (UV) time-domain sky, and it will carry the first rapidly deployable UV spectroscopic capability for a broad range of science applications. In this talk, I will give an overview of the strategies and algorithms under development to optimally plan and execute UVEX’s science mission in real time and without any need for humans in the loop for rapid response to time-sensitive targets of opportunity.
Host: Robert Stein & Jillian Rastinejad