Please join us for Dave Doody's presentation:Dave will describe the Europa Clipper Mission, which will investigate Jupiter's moon Europa. About the size of our own Moon, Europa harbors a tantalizing saltwater ocean, which might have the potential to harbor its own forms of life below its thin icy shell. The solar-powered spacecraft is being fabricated at JPL now, and it will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Cape Canaveral in October, 2024.Dave will touch on how the spacecraft will get all the way out to the Jupiter system using gravity assist, and how it will go about investigating Europa while protecting itself from the harsh radiation near Jupiter. Among its advanced scientific instruments, Clipper carries an ice-penetrating radar system. Please join us for this unique opportunity to hear from someone directly involved with exploring our solar system. For more information about the Ocean World in our planetary back yard, see europa.jpl.nasa.gov. For the whole, exciting story of Europa Clipper, Dave recommends David W. Brown's book, The Mission.
About the SpeakerAIAA Distinguished SpeakerDave Doody is a Senior Systems Engineer for realtime Mission Control operations, currently working on Europa Clipper and on the Psyche Mission to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name. He previously spent 20 years flying the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan, from launch through its spectacular Grand Finale in 2017. After serving in the U.S. Air Force, Dave worked as an instructor for Japan Air Lines, teaching Captains and First Officers of JAL. At the same time, he led an instructional systems development effort at the JAL flight crew training center. Having landed at Catalina Island after sailing the coast, Dave worked as a systems engineer there for three years before joining the NASA-JPL Deep Space Network in Pasadena to create instructional systems and training materials for operators of the worldwide spacecraft-communications systems. On completion of the Deep Space Network task, Dave got his master's degree and went to work on the NASA Voyager Mission flight operations team, while Voyager 2 was cruising from Saturn to Uranus and Neptune. Flight operations on Magellan, the Venus mapper, then led to managing realtime operations on Cassini. Dave has also been publishing in the technical and popular literature, teaching short courses, speaking in public about space-flight related subjects, and making educational scale models of spacecraft available to the public. Once in a while you will find Dave playing sidewalk astronomer in Pasadena, offering free telescope views of Europa and the planets to passers-by. And once a year, Dave welcomes participants from all walks of life in his "Basics of Interplanetary Flight" seminar with ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.
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