Kent Kellogg

Experience

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  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  Jun 1983 - now

  NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR mission). Joint development with the Indian Space Agency (ISRO). NISAR is a dual frequency multi-polarization repeat pass interferometric SAR with an array-fed 12m diameter deployable reflector antenna. The mission will help our understanding of climate change and advance our knowledge of natural hazards by providing data to better estimate changes to ice sheets, land vegetation and land motion that will reduce uncertainties in scientific models and risks to humankind. NASA/JPL provides the L-band SAR, common instrument structure and deployable antenna, high rate mission data handling and communication system, GPS, science operations and L-SAR science data processing. India provides the S-band SAR, spacecraft mainframe (heritage I3K), GSLV Mk-II launch vehicle satellite operations and S-SAR science data processing. Target launch date: January 2022 Show less Project Manager for NASA's Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) mission - SMAP is a first tier Decadal Survey mission recommended by the National Research Council’s Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond, Space Studies Board, National Academies Press, 2007). SMAP will use a non-imaging synthetic aperture radar and a radiometer to produce high accuracy, resolution, and global coverage soil moisture and freeze/thaw measurements that will be invaluable across many science and applications disciplines including hydrology, climate, carbon cycle, and the meteorological, environmental and ecology applications communities. Show less Mr Kellogg was successively the Instrument Manager, Deputy Project Manager and Project Manager for the SeaWinds on ADEOS-II (JAXA) instrument and QuikSCAT mission where he managed instrument development, spacecraft integration & test activities, launch preparations and subsequent on-orbit operations for both missions in the 1997 through 2003 timeframe. The SeaWinds instrument uses a radar to measure ocean surface vector winds. The first SeaWinds instrument was launched as part of the QuikSCAT mission in June 1998. The second SeaWinds instrument was flown aboard JAXA's (Japan Space Agency) ADvanced Earth Observing System spacecraft launched in December 2002. Show less

  • Senior System Engineer, Earth Science & Technology Directorate

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2019 - now

  • Program Manager

    Jun 2015 - Feb 2019

  • Project Manager

    Mar 2008 - Apr 2016

  • Manager, Communications, Radar and Tracking Division

    Jul 2004 - Feb 2009

  • Manager, Spacecraft Telecommunications Equipment Section

    Sept 2003 - Jul 2004

  • Manager, SeaWinds and QuikSCAT Projects

    Oct 1997 - Feb 2004

  • Spacecraft Antenna Group Supervisor

    Sept 1987 - Oct 1997

  • Project Element Manager, SeaWinds Antenna Subsystems

    Jan 1993 - Jan 1997

  • Member of Technical Staff

    Jun 1983 - Sept 1987