Ms. Melissa F. Vess Profile

Melissa F. Vess

at NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr

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Publications (4)

Proceedings Article | 2 October 2024 Presentation

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: observatory build, test, and verification status

Jeremy Perkins, Ed Wollack, Dave Content, Josh Abel, Joanne Baker, Lisa Bartusek, Matthew Bolcar, Bente Eegholm, Lawrence Han, Alexia Harper, Jeff Kruk, Ilya Poberezhskiy, Maxime Rizzo, Josh Schlieder, Scott Smith, Missy Vess, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume PC13131, PC1313103 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3032499

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Proceedings Article | 23 August 2024 Presentation + Paper

The Roman Space Telescope observatory build, test, and verification status

Jeremy Perkins, Edward Wollack, David Content, Joshua Abel, Joanne Baker, Lisa Bartusek, Matthew Bolcar, Lawrence Han, Alexia Harper, Jeffrey Kruk, Kuo-Chia (Alice) Lui, Ilya Poberezhskiy, Maxime Rizzo, Jeffrey Scott Smith, Joshua Schlieder, Melissa Vess, Neil Zimmerman

Proceedings Volume 13092, 130920R (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3022616

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Equipment, Observatories, Coronagraphy, Optical fabrication, Imaging spectroscopy, Design, Dark energy, Vibration, Thermal modeling

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SPIE Journal Paper | 9 January 2021 Open Access

Starshade rendezvous: exoplanet sensitivity and observing strategy

Andrew Romero-Wolf, Geoffrey Bryden, Sara Seager, N. Jeremy Kasdin, Jeff Booth, Matt Greenhouse, Doug Lisman, Bruce Macintosh, Stuart Shaklan, Melissa Vess, Steve Warwick, David Webb, John Ziemer, Andrew Gray, Michael Hughes, Greg Agnes, Jonathan Arenberg, S. Case Bradford, Michael Fong, Jennifer Gregory, Steve Matousek, Jason Rhodes, Phil Willems, Simone D'Amico, John Debes, Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Sergi Hildebrandt, Renyu Hu, Alina Kiessling, Nikole Lewis, Maxime Rizzo, Aki Roberge, Tyler Robinson, Leslie Rogers, Dmitry Savransky, Chris Stark

JATIS, Vol. 7, Issue 02, 021210, (January 2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.7.2.021210

KEYWORDS: Planets, Exoplanets, Stars, Telescopes, Signal to noise ratio, Spectroscopy, Target detection, Observatories, Sensors, Point spread functions

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Proceedings Article | 10 July 2018 Presentation

The wide field infrared survey telescope (WFIRST) observatory: design formulation (phase-A) overview (Conference Presentation)

Thomas Casey, Nerses Armani, Wes Alexander, Lisa Bartusek, Carl Blaurock, David Braun, Alexander Carra, David Content, Yves Conturie, Christine Cottingham, Richard Demers, Michael Dipirro, Robert Effinger, Robert Egerman, Frank Forkl, Guangjun Gao, John Gygax, John Hagopian, Timothy Hahm, John Hawk, Gurnie Hobbs, Clifton Jackson, Alden Jurling, Brian Kern, Jeffrey Kruk, Xiaoyi Li, Kuo-chia Liu, Catherine Marx, Marzouk Marzouk, Carson McDonald, Seke Godo, Mark Melton, James Mondello, M. Charley Noecker, Bert Pasquale, Hume Peabody, Ilya Poberezhskiy, Cory Powell, Giulio Rosanova, John Ruffa, Jeffrey Smith, Hong Tang, Christopher Tolman, Arthur Whipple, Timothy Wilson, Melissa Vess, Perry Voyer

Proceedings Volume 10698, 106982C (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313748

KEYWORDS: Infrared telescopes, Space telescopes, Observatories, Telescopes, Infrared radiation, Optical instrument design, Infrared imaging, Exoplanets, Imaging spectroscopy, Coronagraphy

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