INTERFEROMETRICS INC.

Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is the name given to a pair of NASA spacecraft that provide simultaneous views of the sun from different angular perspectives.  Launched in 2006, the two STEREO spacecraft are in orbit about the Sun in approximately the same orbit as the Earth except that one (STEREO-A) is ahead of the Earth and the other (STEREO-B) is behind.  STEREO is the first mission dedicated to understanding the physics associated with the initiation and propagation of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).  SECCHI comprises a suite of solar and heliospheric imagers aboard each STEREO spacecraft that includes two coronagraphs, a heliospheric imager, and a EUV imager similar to SOHO EIT. The goal is the scientific study of CMEs from formation on the Sun to impact on the Earth’s magnetosphere.  INTERFEROMETRICS engineers and scientists have participated in the STEREO from the earliest proposal stages.  INTERFEROMETRICS designed, programmed, and tested the SECCHI instrument software including data gathering, image compression, downlinking, telemetry decommutation, and image display.  INTERFEROMETRICS engineers operate SECCHI including configuration, scheduling of image data acquisition, and the downlinking of resulting data images.  INTERFEROMETRICS programmers and analysts provide support the SECCHI database allowing scientists throughout the world to access SECCHI images.