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NASA/Northrop Grumman Team Wins National Space Club Award for Aqua Satellite
A team of scientists and engineers from Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded the National Space Club's 2003 Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award. The award was presented at the annual Goddard Memorial Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Friday, March 28. Phil Sablehaus, the Aqua Project Manager at Goddard and Martin Mohan, Northrop Grumman's Aqua Program Manager accepted the award on behalf of the team. The Nelson P. Jackson award, named in honor of the founder and past president of the National Space Club, is presented annually for outstanding contributions to the missile, aircraft and space fields. The NASA/Northrop Grumman team was honored for the on-orbit success of NASA's Aqua Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite, which was launched in May 2002. "Aqua represented one of the smoothest launch, activation and checkout periods of any flight system in Goddard's history," said Phil Sabelhaus, who served as GSFC's Aqua project manager. "This award is a tribute to the mission-first focus and hard work of the entire government and industry team." Northrop Grumman designed and built Aqua for GSFC. They are also building another EOS spacecraft named Aura, scheduled for launch in 2004 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Aura will take measurements of the Earth's ozone, air quality and climate. Aqua is part of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise; a long-term research effort dedicated to understanding and protecting our home planet. Through the study of Earth, NASA will help to provide sound science to policy and economic decision makers so as to better life here, while developing the technologies needed to explore the universe and search for life beyond our home planet. More information about the Aqua program is available at: http://aqua.nasa.gov Information about NASA's Earth Science Enterprise can be found at: http://www.earth.nasa.gov
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