Tom Gasaway
Programmer/Analyst III
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
University of California San Diego
UCSD/CASS/0424
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0424
Phone: (858) 534-3316
Fax: (858) 534-2294
I've been at UCSD for 29 years, 28 of them at
CASS. In that time I have worked on many
projects, among them:
- Data analysis software for the UCSD
missions aboard the
Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft.
- I spent years traveling around the U.S. on the UCSD Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS)
project, one of the original five scientific instruments flown on the
Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Martin-Marietta Aerospace in Denver, CO, now part of
Lockheed Martin (LM), was the contractor that built the FOS. At
Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, MD, all of the HST
science instruments were integrated. The whole "marching army"
(as one of the technical managers once referred to us) then traveled
to Lockheed Missiles & Space Corporation (now the other half
of LM) in Sunnyvale, CA,
for integration and testing of the entire HST. My last posting was the
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
located at
Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore, MD, to work on commanding sequences for FOS operations.
- In 1990 I transistioned to working on the flight, test and data
analysis software for the
HEXTE
instrument aboard the
RXTE
spacecraft. Launced in 1995, this project has been collecting data ever since.
- In 1993, even as I continued working on the HEXTE, I began working on different projects, some space related and some not. I worked on the
LWS
spectrometer for the
CASS Infrared Astronomy
group which was installed on the Keck I telescope in Hawaii but is now considered a "Past Instrument". I worked on instrument control software for the Atmospheric Research Laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on a project to use solar and infrared
radiometers to acquire and analyze airborne and ground-based radiometric
measurements.
- From 2000 to 2004 I worked on the data pipeline software for the OSIRIS integral field spectrometer installed on the Keck II telescope in Hawaii.
- Most recently I have been working on instrument design and detector development for a variety of projects all related to measuring X-rays and Gamma-rays with Cadmium Zinc Telluride detectors.
This page is my work face, you can see what I like to do for fun
here.
"Debugging
is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you
are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
- Brian W. Kernighan
tgasaway@ucsd.edu
Last Updated: June 13, 2008
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