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The Guidance, Navigation, and Control Lead basically is in charge of

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all of the components to make sure the spacecraft is pointed where the scientists

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want it to be pointed. We track how the Earth, how the satellite is

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moving around the Earth, and how the Earth is moving around the Sun. We have

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algorithms on-board that allow us to turn the spacecraft one direction

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or another to make sure that we keep it thermally safe and power positive.

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We have other algorithms that keep our orbit, because the orbit degrades over time

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so we have what we call thruster maneuvers and delta-v maneuvers which allow us

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to raise or lower the orbit. We have a very large spinning instrument

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on the GPM called the GPM Microwave Imager,

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GMI. Because it's a spinning object, it introduces jitter to the whole

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spacecraft, so the whole spacecraft kinda shakes with it. We can't test that on the ground,

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so it'll be a nice culmination to the seven years of work that I've spent on GPM.

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