The Large Ultraviolet/Optical/Infrared Surveyor

The Rapid Transient Surveyor

The Rapid Transient Surveyor (RTS) is a proposed rapid-response, high-cadence adaptive optics (AO) facility for the UH 2.2-m telescope on Maunakea. RTS will uniquely address the need for high-acuity and sensitive near-infrared spectral follow-up observations of tens of thousands of objects in mere months by combining an excellent observing site, unmatched robotic observational efficiency, and a...

The WWARN Antimalarial Quality Surveyor

Over the last decade there has been a resurgence of awareness that poor medicine quality is a vitally important, but neglected, public health issue. A growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of drug quality with examples from all over the world. This is an important problem, not only for antimalarials but for all types of medication. The use of poor quality medicines can resul...

Extending C Global Surveyor

This paper describes an extension of C Global Surveyor (CGS), a static program analysis tool developed at the NASA Ames Research Center. CGS is used to analyse mission-critical flight software of NASA Mars missions. In order to enhance CGS and support the analysis of very large systems, the abstract interpretation techniques on which CGS is based need to be augmented by complimentary program an...

Overview of the Mars Global Surveyor mission

The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was placed into Mars orbit on September 11, 1997, and by March 9, 1999, had slowly circularized through aerobraking to a Sunsynchronous, near-polar orbit with an average altitude of 378 km. The science payload includes the Mars Orbiter Camera, Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, Thermal Emission Spectrometer, Ultrastable Oscillator (for Radio Science xperiments), a...

Implications of the surveyor v chemical analysis.