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NASA Award for Marginal Ice Zone Observations and Process Experiment (MIZOPEX)
News Article, February 24, 2015 • Research team members prepare the Sierra Unmanned Aerial System for flight from Oliktok Point, Alaska. (Photo by Mark Ivey) Sandians Mark Ivey and Darin Desilets were included in a NASA Group Achievement Award “for outstanding achievement in executing the MIZOPEX using multiple classes of unmanned aircraft [UASs].” The MIZOPEX campaign...

Record of Decision for Mars 2020 Mission
News Article, July 1, 2015 • Mars 2020 Rover instrument selection. NASA issued a record of decision (ROD) to use a nuclear battery (a multi-mission radioisotope thermo­electric generator) on the next rover to go to Mars, in 2020. Sandia performed the Nuclear Risk Assessment that was the keystone analysis in the Environmental Impact Statement leading up...