Mr. Awaya has 22 years of experience encompassing power systems engineering, systems engineering, and thermal control engineering. His range of experience includes the design, analysis and test of distributed dish solar power systems, the design and analysis of thermal storage units, the power/thermal analysis of thermoelectric generators, the design and analysis of solar photovoltaic array systems, the fabrication and test of thermal transport heat pipes for the Wide Field and Planetary Camera II subsystem of the Hubble Space Telescope, the analysis and test of the NASA scatterometer linear antennae, the thermal design and test of the Mars Pathfinder lander and cruise stage, and is currently involved with the Mars Sample Return Project as thermal engineer for the Mars Ascent Vehicle Task. Mr. Awaya is a principal author of the Mars Miniature Instruments Principal Investigator's Resourcebook which is also in website format. Mr. Awaya was involved with the Autonomous GPS Stations Project as a thermal consultant.
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Last modified on 3/11/00 by Maggi Glasscoe (Maggi.Glasscoe@jpl.nasa.gov)
