Dr. Paul M. Danehy
Events
Dr. Paul M. Danehy
NASA Langley Research Center
Moon to Mars: Contributions of Optical Measurements to NASA’s Artemis Program
NASA and partners have embarked on a series of space missions to the moon and Mars, collectively known as the Artemis Program. This talk overviews the Artemis missions and details laser and optical measurement technique development and application to ground and flight tests related to, or inspired by, the Artemis program. Three measurement techniques have been applied to study vehicle launch, Earth and Mars entry, and lunar and Martian landing. Such optical instrumentation provides unique information to inform the underlying physics of space flight while also providing benchmark data for validating ever advancing predictive codes.
About the Speaker
Dr. Danehy graduated from the University of New Hampshire in Mechanical Engineering in 1989. He attended Stanford University obtaining both MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering, finishing in 1995. Thereafter, he spent five years at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra as a post-doctoral researcher and then as a faculty member in the Department of Physics, where he applied laser-based methods to study hypersonic flows. Dr. Danehy has been at NASA Langley Research Center since 2000. As NASA’s Senior Technologist (ST) for Advanced Measurement Systems he leads and participates in the planning, advocacy, execution and review of basic and applied research to advance the state of the art in measurement technology with an emphasis on Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL).
