Asal Naseri is acting associate flight director for NASA heliophysics

Dr. Asal Naseri is the acting associate flight director for NASA’s heliophysics division in the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. She leads the programmatic and technical management of the flight portfolio for more than 20 operational missions and several in development. In this role she ensures missions meet technical, budgetary, and scientific milestones, arrive safely at the launch pad, and achieve their science goals in space.

Before becoming associate flight director, Dr. Naseri was a program executive in the Heliophysics Division. She oversaw missions such as the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE), HelioSwarm, and the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), and coordinated the Heliophysics Explorers Program.

Prior to joining NASA, she was the satellite technologies branch lead in Space Dynamics Laboratory’s Civil Space Division, overseeing small satellite projects including the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) and the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP). Earlier, she was a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where she led a student research group on the Virtual Telescope for X-ray Observations (VTXO) formation-flying mission and taught courses in space engineering, dynamics, and systems and control.

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