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Tuesday April 13th, 2004, the Office of Naval Research students
presented their research teams web sites for the 2003-2004 school
year. This
year's student research pages can be found below. In
addition to the presentations, Mr. Michael Rice of ECSU's Sponsored
Programs, Contracts, and Grants, presented an introduction to
the basics of satellite operations. A short part of Mr. Rice's
biography is presented below. A look at the basics of space
flight can be found at http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/index.html.
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| Mr. Michael Rice currently works in the ECSU
Office of Sponsored Programs, as the Title III Coordinator.
His professional background, however, has been in the field
of satellite mission operations. An Elizabeth City native, Mr.
Rice spent nearly 20 years in the aerospace industry prior to
coming to ECSU in August of 2003. After graduating from UNC-Chapel
Hill with an undergraduate degree in chemistry, he entered the
military, and spent four years as an officer in the US Air Force
Space Command, as a Satellite Systems Controller in the Defense
Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP).
At the end of his tour of military duty, he went to work
for Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. (HTSI), as a contractor
to NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
During his fifteen years with Honeywell, Mr. Rice was involved
in all phases of satellite mission development, from pre-mission
requirements definition, to spacecraft integration & testing,
to on-orbit satellite operations. Some of the satellite missions
he worked with included the NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST),
Landsat-7, and the Small Explorers (SMEX) series, as well
as the Air Force Relay Mirror Experiment (RME).
Mr. Rice spoke briefly on how satellite mission
operations affect remote sensing. He also was available afterward
for an informal question and answer session with the students
on satellite-related topics.
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