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B. Blakkolb
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 11
Citations - 880
B. Blakkolb is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Sample Analysis at Mars. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 11 publications receiving 853 citations. Previous affiliations of B. Blakkolb include Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The On-Orbit Performance of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Patrick Morrissey,David Schiminovich,Tom A. Barlow,D. Christopher Martin,B. Blakkolb,Tim Conrow,Brian Cooke,Kerry D. Erickson,James L. Fanson,Peter G. Friedman,Robert Grange,Patrick N. Jelinsky,Siu-Chun Lee,Dankai Liu,Alan S. Mazer,R. McLean,Bruno Milliard,David P. Randall,Wes Schmitigal,Amit Sen,Oswald H. W. Siegmund,Frank Surber,Arthur H. Vaughan,M. Viton,Barry Y. Welsh,Luciana Bianchi,Yong-Ik Byun,Jose Donas,Karl Forster,Timothy M. Heckman,Young-Wook Lee,Barry F. Madore,Barry F. Madore,Roger F. Malina,Susan G. Neff,R. Michael Rich,Todd Small,Alexander S. Szalay,Ted K. Wyder +38 more
TL;DR: The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) as discussed by the authors is a NASA Small Explorer that is performing a survey of the sky in two ultraviolet bands, using a modified Ritchey-Chretien telescope with a 125 field of view, selectable imaging and objective-grism spectroscopic modes, and an innovative optical system with a thin-film multilayer dichroic beam splitter.
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The On-Orbit Performance of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Patrick Morrissey,David Schiminovich,Tom A. Barlow,D. C. Martin,B. Blakkolb,Tim Conrow,Brian Cooke,Kerry D. Erickson,James L. Fanson,Peter G. Friedman,Robert Grange,Patrick N. Jelinsky,S. C. Lee,Daizhong Liu,Alan S. Mazer,R. McLean,B. Milliard,David P. Randall,Wes Schmitigal,Amit Sen,O. H. W. Siegmund,Frank Surber,Arthur H. Vaughan,M. Viton,Barry Y. Welsh,Luciana Bianchi,Yong-Ik Byun,Jose Donas,Karl Forster,Timothy M. Heckman,Y. W. Lee,B. F. Madore,Roger F. Malina,Susan G. Neff,R. M. Rich,T. Small,Alexander S. Szalay,Ted K. Wyder +37 more
TL;DR: The first year on-orbit performance results for the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) were reported in this paper, a NASA Small Explorer that is performing a survey of the sky in two ultraviolet bands.
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The Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Christopher Martin,Tom A. Barlow,William Barnhart,Luciana Bianchi,B. Blakkolb,Dominique Bruno,Joseph Bushman,Yong-Ik Byun,Michael Chiville,Timothy Conrow,Brian Cooke,Jose Donas,James L. Fanson,Karl Forster,Peter G. Friedman,Robert Grange,David Griffiths,Timothy M. Heckman,Jim Min Lee,Patrick N. Jelinsky,Sug-Whan Kim,Siu-Chun Lee,Young-Wook Lee,Dankai Liu,Barry F. Madore,Roger F. Malina,Alan S. Mazer,R. McLean,Bruno Milliard,William Mitchell,Marco Morais,Patrick Morrissey,Susan G. Neff,Frederic Raison,David P. Randall,Michael Rich,David Schiminovich,Wes Schmitigal,Amit Sen,Oswald H. W. Siegmund,Todd Small,Joseph M. Stock,Frank Surber,Alexander S. Szalay,Arthur H. Vaughan,Timothy Weigand,Barry Y. Welsh,Patrick Wu,Ted K. Wyder,C. Kevin Xu,Jennifer Zsoldas +50 more
TL;DR: The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) as mentioned in this paper performed the first Space Ultraviolet sky survey and used the measured UV properties of local galaxies along with corollary observations to calibrate the UV-global star formation rate relationship in galaxies.
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In situ cleaning of instruments for the sensitive detection of organics on Mars.
Mark S. Anderson,Ira Katz,Mihail P. Petkov,B. Blakkolb,Jerami Mennella,S. D’Agostino,Joy A. Crisp,J. Evans,J. Feldman,Daniel Limonadi +9 more
TL;DR: It was found that vibrating hardware, used to facilitate powder transport, was also effective at removing contamination, and both organic and particulate contamination is efficiently removed.
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The viscous Fluid Mechanical Particle Barrier for the prevention of sample contamination on the Mars 2020 mission
Ioannis G. Mikellides,Adam Steltzner,B. Blakkolb,Rebecca C. Matthews,Kristina A. Kipp,Douglas Bernard,Moogega Stricker,James N. Benardini,Parthiv N. Shah,Albert Robinson +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that contamination of the tubes by terrestrial remnant particles as small as 0.15μm on the rover will be prevented using the Fluid Mechanical Particle Barrier (FMPB), a cylindrical enclosure within which each tube will be housed.