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Role: Mission Developer
Role: Mission Developer
As part of the Mission Developer role I lead:
SAO's SmallSat program
Since founding the SmallSat program in 2019 we have developed and proposed 4 missions to NASA and assisted on the development of an number of others.
I am currently leading an initiative that radically reduces the price of future science missions by standardizing all aspects of the mission that can be, limiting the custom design effort to a minimum. This a joint effort of my role as SmallSat lead and Internal Innovation Lead
SAO's Internal Innovation Program
I developed a successful Pitchfest program. This is an open forum at which members of the community can pitch ideas to the Innovation Group. We have received many ideas from the SAO and CfA community. Those can be viewed here.
I am currently leading the development high resolution (<1 arcsec) X-ray optics to form the basis of the next generation of spacebased X-ray observatories.
Proposal Efforts
I led the engineering effort on the ECCCO Program (received no major weakness)
Led the SAO effort on the MUSE mission. We won a subcontract and completed the construction of the MUSE Context Imager.
I led the engineering effort on four Step 1 proposals and one Step 2 proposal for Arcus
Led SAO engineering effort on various winning Balloon based, airplane based, and rocket instruments proposals.
Education
Education
1978: BS in mechanical Engineering from MIT
This included concentrations in Design and Control systems
1981: MS in Mechanical Dynamics and Control from Stanford
This included a combined Master's in Mechanical Dynamics and the Design of Control Systems
2007: MS in Engineering Management from Tufts University and The Gordon Institute.
This is a Management degree that focused on the Management of Engineers and Engineering Programs.
A focus in Negotiations and other enhanced communication methods
Previous Roles at SAO:
Previous Roles at SAO:
Previous Roles at SAO:
Program Manager
Project Engineer
Selected bibliography:
The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
JR Lemen, AM Title, DJ Akin, PF Boerner, P. Cheimets, C Chou, JF Drake, DW Duncan, The solar dynamics observatory, 17-40
SDO-AIA telescope design
P Cheimets, DC Caldwell, C Chou, R Gates, J Lemen, WA Podgorski, ...
Solar Physics and Space Weather Instrumentation III 7438, 141-152
The transition region and coronal explorer
BN Handy, LW Acton, CC Kankelborg, CJ Wolfson, DJ Akin, ME Bruner, P. Cheimets, ...
Solar Physics 187 (2), 229-260
The interface region imaging spectrograph (IRIS)
B De Pontieu, AM Title, JR Lemen, GD Kushner, DJ Akin, B Allard, P. Cheimets, ...
Solar Physics 289 (7), 2733-2779
The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) for the Hinode Mission
L Golub, E Deluca, G Austin, J Bookbinder, D Caldwell, P Cheimets, ...
Solar Physics 243 (1), 63-86
Solar wind electrons alphas and protons (SWEAP) investigation: Design of the solar wind and coronal plasma instrument suite for solar probe plus
JC Kasper, R Abiad, G Austin, M Balat-Pichelin, SD Bale, JW Belcher, P. Cheimets, ...
Space Science Reviews 204 (1), 131-186
The high-resolution coronal imager (Hi-C)
K Kobayashi, J Cirtain, AR Winebarger, K Korreck, L Golub, P. Cheimets, RW Walsh, ...
Solar Physics 289 (11), 4393-4412
Arcus: the x-ray grating spectrometer explorer
RK Smith, MH Abraham, R Allured, M Bautz, J Bookbinder, JN Bregman, P. Cheimets...
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 990 pg.1440-1446
Co-alignment methodology for the X-ray and UV spectrometers on Arcus Probe
P Cheimets, CT DeRoo, BT Fleming, K France, EN Hertz
Journal of astronomical telescopes, instruments, and systems 11 (1), 011009 …
Technical negotiation
P Cheimets, J Cordon, J Tull
Mechanical Engineering 131 (08), 26-29
Miscellanea:
I spent 2 weeks at the South Pole in 1997 doing modifications on an existing radio telescope. While I was there I took some photos and wrote a blog. I did this, for the most part, to keep my family informed as to what was going on. The blog can be seen here; the photos are linked in the blog.
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