Peter Harvey - Special Guest for Solar Week Spring 2008
UC Berkeley - Space Sciences Lab

Peter R. Harvey is an experienced project developer and manager having more than 30 years experience in various space projects. Holding a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of California, he was the Project Manager for the NASA satellite missions RHESSI and THEMIS projects in which UC Berkeley provided the spacecraft, ground systems and operations. Prior activities include project management, systems engineering and flight software development for Electric Field and X-ray instruments on CRRES, Polar, Cluster, FAST, ISEE, Firewheel, and HIREX.

The RHESSI spacecraft provides high-resolution spectroscopic images of solar flares in X-ray and Gamma-Rays, while THEMIS determines the trigger and large-scale evolution of auroral substorms.  Launched on February 17, 2007, THEMIS is NASA’s largest satellite constellation, employing five identical micro-satellites with orbit periods of one, two and four days and an array of 30 ground stations in northern US and Canada.