Presenter: Ted Leoutsakos, NASA – JPSS Deployed Systems Team Senior Engineer
Artifacts: Presentation PDF | Video Recording on YouTube | Chat Log
Back by popular demand! Ted presented to HAL about the first JPSS mission in January 2021. His 2023 presentation will provide details about JPSS-2, the new mission. JPSS-2 successfully lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Nov. 10, 2022.
The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is the nation’s new generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system. JPSS is a collaborative program between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its acquisition agent, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). JPSS provides critical environmental satellite data to support NOAA’s ongoing mission to understand and predict changes in the weather, oceans and climate.
Ted Leoutsakos has extensive NASA/DOD and commercial experience with broad end-to-end satellite systems engineering knowledge in complex system integration, testing, operations, training, and ground system development with over a dozen missions under his belt. A life-long Star Trek fan, Ted recalls his dad taking him to the library at age 5 to check out his first read entitled “The Book of Rockets”, and the rest is history…