Voyager Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS) Investigation



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(All photos are courtesy of the University of Iowa Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, unless otherwise noted.)

Voyager Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS) instrument developed by University of Iowa Dept. of Physics and Astronomy scientists and engineers under the direction of Prof. Don Gurnett.
U. of Iowa Dept. of Physics and Astronomy machine shop
where the PWS instrument case was prepared prior to
being gold plated at Anchor Plating in California.
U. of Iowa Dept. of Physics and Astronomy machine shop
where the PWS instrument case was prepared.
PWS Project Manager, Bob Shaw, with the PWS instrument, 1976.
PWS Electronics Design Engineer, Steve Remington, 1979. (Courtesy of the Daily Iowan, the U. of Iowa campus newspaper)
PWS Co-Investigator Don Gurnett and Project Physicist Bill Kurth, 1981. (Courtesy of the Daily Iowan, the U. of Iowa campus newspaper)
Don Gurnett and Bill Kurth, 1981. (Courtesy of the Daily Iowan, the U. of Iowa campus newspaper)
Investigators Fred Scarf, Don Gurnett and Bill Kurth, 1986. (Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
Randii Wessen, Fred Scarf, Bill Kurth, and Voyager Planetary Radio Astronomy instrument Principal Investigator Jim Warwick at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) during the Uranus flyby, 1986. (Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
Bill Kurth, Don Gurnett, and Fred Scarf at JPL during the Uranus flyby, 1986. (Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
Voyager colleagues at JPL reviewing incoming data during the Uranus flyby in 1986. (Left-right) Stan Shawhan, Fred Scarf, Charlie Kennel, Ferd Coroniti, Don Gurnett. (Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
Don Gurnett, Bill Kurth, and Steve Remington pose with the spare PWS instrument and a Voyager spacecraft model. (Courtesy of U. of Iowa Photo Service)
Voyager 1989 Neptune flyby. (Left-right) Don Gurnett, Larry Granroth (back), James Van Allen, Iver Cairns.
Voyager 1989 Neptune flyby. (Left-right) Don Gurnett, James Van Allen, Iver Cairns, Dave Barbosa.
Voyager 1989 Neptune flyby. (Left-right) Dave Barbosa, Bill Kurth (phone), Iver Cairns, Stewart Moses.
1989 Voyager project meeting. (Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
1996 Voyager project meeting. (Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Don Gurnett holding a model of the Voyager spacecraft, 2008. (Courtesy of photographer John Richard working for the copyright holder Iowa City Press Citizen).
Voyager PWS team at the 2013 U. of Iowa public lecture "Voyager's Epic Journey Into Interstellar Space." (Left-right) Principal investigator Don Gurnett, electronics design engineer Steve Remington, co-investigator Bill Kurth, mechanical engineer Roger D. Anderson.


Staff in photos on this page:

Dr. Frederick L. Scarf, TRW Inc. - Voyager PWS Principal Investigator until his death in 1988
Prof. Donald A. Gurnett, U. of Iowa - PWS Co-Investigator; later named PWS Principal Investigator in 1988
Dr. William S. Kurth, U. of Iowa - PWS Project Physicist; later named as a co-investigator in 1988 and project manager in 1990
Dr. Robert R. Shaw, U. of Iowa - PWS Project Manager until his death in 1990
Mr. Steven L. Remington, U. of Iowa - PWS Electronics Design Engineer
Dr. Randii Wessen, JPL - Voyager Science Sequence Coordinator
Dr. James Warwick, U. of Colorado - Planetary Radio Astronomy (PRA) Instrument Principal Investigator
Prof. Stanley D. Shawhan, NASA Headquarters - former U. of Iowa professor; NASA Headquarters Director of Space Physics (1983-1990).
Prof. Charlie Kennel, UCLA - research colleague
Prof. Ferd Coroniti, UCLA - research colleague
Prof. James A. Van Allen, U. of Iowa - research colleague
Dr. Iver H. Cairns, U. of Iowa - postdoctoral scholar
Dr. David D. Barbosa, U. of Iowa - research scientist
Dr. Stewart Moses, TRW Inc. - research scientist
Larry Granroth, U. of Iowa - data analysis programmer
Roger D. Anderson, U. of Iowa - PWS Mechanical Engineer

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