asad137

Not part of the JPL Juno team but I do work at JPL:

MS Project: A software tool used for planning and tracking projects, deliverables, milestones, etc.

Earned Value Management: A project-management methodology for tracking progress relative to the planned schedule and cost targets : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_value_management

WBS: Work Breakdown Structure: basically just categorizing all the different types of work that go into making a mission like this happen, and then using those categories (and finer subcategories) to plan and track the work that happens.

Project Management: Should be pretty obvious

System Engineering: Bringing together all the various engineering subsystems, managing requirements, providing technical guidance and technical resource (size/weight/power/etc) management

Mission Assurance: A quasi-independent group that ensures that the designs created by the engineers will work. Typically very heavily-focused on reliability, and work closely with the electronics team (especially on a project like Juno which has to survive Jupiter's intense radiation environment)

Engineering insight/oversight -- not sure about this one, since my project doesn't have it. I suspect it's related to the more technical aspects of project systems engineering, and probably includes a lot of expert engineers at JPL.

Instrument Development: Just what it sounds like -- the instruments on Juno are what actually get the science data, like the magnetometer and JunoCam. So this WBS element contains all the sub-management and engineering for each instrument

Spacecraft Development: Spacecraft engineering (where "spacecraft" refers to the thing that holds all the instruments and has the structure that accommodates the propulsion, power, and communications subsystems).

Instrument Integration: Installing instruments onto the spacecraft and testing them

Mission Operations: Actually running the spacecraft and instruments

Did you consult with an ethics counselor at the Office of the General Council before you started using your "NASA Scientist" status to sell weight loss products? You are a collaborator who has undergone a security clearance at JPL...

As an affiliate, I don't know if he's subject to a background investigation, but he should have contacted the JPL Ethics office, which would have told him it's not allowed.

...as opposed to a civil servant...

I'm pretty sure civil servants also have a background check (federal form SF-85).

...or even the recipient of a NASA grant.

I've known a lot of people who have received NASA grants, and none of them call themselves "NASA scientists" unless they are actually employed by NASA.

12 ukuleles

Well that's basically the same as 8 guitars

I looked him up on JS, he's there (in group 329C), but he doesn't have a gateway profile so nothing comes up when you click his name.

I love a good Wawa sandwich but you can't beat the Hoagie Haven chicken parm. I've been gone for over a decade and I still get cravings.