Ana Guzman, ideaXme space ambassador and leading space communications and space exploration television producer interviews Caley Burke, Aerospace Engineer NASA’s Launch Program.
Ana Guzman comments:
In my recent interview for ideaXme, I was able to sit down and chat with Caley Burke, aerospace engineer at NASA’s Launch Services Program. She works on the interface between the spacecraft and launch vehicle teams to get the spacecraft delivered to their final destination in space. As part of her work, she analyses trajectories of the rockets launching NASA and NOAA robotic spacecraft missions.
Caley Burke NASA Rocket Scientist
Her position contributes to space exploration by providing expertise in reducing risk during the delivery of NASA exploratory missions to space and maintaining a wealth of knowledge in the expendable launch vehicle market. We discuss factors taken into account when deciding which trajectories and rockets are chosen for each mission, launch windows and opportunities from different parts of the world, and why a launch window to Mars occurs only every two years.
Mars Science Laboratory
Caley worked on the launches of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) and the Mars 2018 lander, InSight, on an Atlas V, NuSTAR on a Pegasus XL, and Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) on a Delta II. She did early work on the Joint Polar Satellite System 2 (JPSS-2) mission to launch on an Atlas V rocket.
Caley Burke’s NASA Career Began at Kennedy Space Center
She started her NASA career as a Pathways intern in 2002 at Kennedy Space Center with the International Space Station (ISS) and later transferred to the Launch Services Program in 2003. She attended MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) via the Kennedy Graduate Fellowship Program and performed fluid slosh in microgravity research on the Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) platform on the ISS.
Additional information pertaining to this interview with Caley Burke
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Social Media: Twitter @NASA_LSP @NASAKennedy @RocketCaley (Personal account; not representing the government) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASALSP/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/NASAKennedy
More NASA Kennedy social media: https://www.nasa.gov/socialmedia/
Interview credit: Ana Guzman ideaXme Space Ambassador.
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Ana is a space exploration television producer and project leader. She comes to ideaXme with nine years experience working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center serving different roles in their communications and multimedia teams. As part of the ideaXme team, she wishes to continue working in outreach and educating the public in different topics regarding all things space.
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This interview is in American English.
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