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James Paul Mason
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heliophysicist + astrophysicist (solar/stellar) + aerospace engineer @jhuapl, formerly @LASPatCU and @nasa | principal investigator of @SunCETcubesat for @NASASun
Oh and for those interested, here's the graphic without all the PBR impacts. It's a nice complement to the Decadal (imho) and something I plan to maintain as a living document going forward.
July 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Here's what the President's Budget Request does to the fleet of observations that has _literally taken us decades to build_ that monitors the explosive Sun and how solar storms impact Earth and other planetary bodies.
July 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I kept waiting for it to turn to funny 1 star reviews, similar to the series of posters for national parks highlighting 1 star reviews like this one
June 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This time around, we made little Teflon molds for our Arathane+cabosil (fancy curing space rubber basically) that make sure the solar panels can handle the chatter of a rocket launch and the day-to-day of being in the lab while we go through integration and testing for @suncetcubesat.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Bunch of nerds (I mean students at CU Boulder) learning from the master how to build the solar panels that will fly on @suncetcubesat.bsky.social and other upcoming #cubesats.

With each iteration of solar panels we've flown over the past decade, we've made little improvements.

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April 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This year's American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division Popular Media Awards have been selected!
@aas.org.

These awards go each year to a journalist, a scientist, and a student for articles or other media focused on the sun or its effects on Earth.
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April 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Me trying multiple browsers, multiple devices to login to Marriott wifi.

"Why the hell isn't this working?!"

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April 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
☀️ #PI_Daily incredible week for @suncetcubesat.bsky.social got our custom battery pack fit checked, telescope camera code tests started, x-band radio testing processed, solar panel Kapton tape laser cutting dialed in and started onboarding a couple of new PhD students.
March 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Made a new SunCET logo reveal animation. First time ever doing it from scratch. Apple Motion is really intuitive!

☀️ @suncetcubesat.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
#HelioDecadal ☀️ is here! I've run it through my word cloud generator (I'd also run the white papers through a couple years ago).

Some funny stop words I had to add "rights reserved" and "editorial correction"
@nationalacademies.org #Heliophysics
December 5, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Made this poster for the SunCET NASA mission
December 20, 2023 at 12:04 PM