Stewart D. Nozette

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Stewart D. Nozette

Stewart David Nozette (born May 20, 1957 in Chicago ) is an American scientist and astronomer . He worked for the United States Department of Energy , the United States Department of Defense, and NASA . He published the results of his research in the science magazine Science . The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested him in 2009 on suspicion of espionage. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2011 after a trade with the prosecutor.

Life

He grew up in Chicago near West Rogers Park . He received his Bachelor of Science (BS) in Geosciences at the University of Arizona in 1979. In 1983 he earned his doctoral degree Ph.D. in astronomy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1990 to 2007 he donated more than $ 36,000 to the Republican Party on behalf of its committee or candidates. In the course of his professional activities, he was given permission to work in areas of high confidentiality in the US nuclear and satellite programs. It had the “Top secret” level and the “Q clearance” security level.

From 1983 to 1984 he was associate director at the California Space Institute , which was affiliated with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego . He then moved to Austin .

At NASA, he obtained experiments that led to the discovery of water at the south pole of the moon. With his security level, he conducted investigations on nuclear materials at the US Department of Energy. During the tenure of US President George HW Bush , it belonged to the National Space Council . From 1989 to 2006 he had the security level to inspect US national security documents. <He left the administration of the US government in 2006.

He then went to India and worked on the Chandrayaan-1 lunar project . He conducted investigations on the Mini-RF Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter .

Espionage and conviction

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The FBI began investigating Nozette in 2006 on suspicion of accounting fraud against NASA. During a house search, confidential documents were found, as well as his email from 2002, in which Nozette threatened to sell secrets to an unnamed country or to Israel. An FBI agent contacted Nozette in 2009, posing as an Israeli intelligence officer. He agreed to Nozette that he would provide secret information in return for cash payments. He received his first payment after handing over information about US satellite technology. He was also ready to provide information on nuclear weapons, spacecraft, satellites, and major weapon systems. Corresponding documents were later secured in a mailbox that was used to transfer such information.

The United States Department of Justice has made no allegations against the government of Israel or any other state of violating US law in this matter. Nozette justified his espionage contact with the fact that his parents were Jews. He also applied for an Israeli passport.

Before the trial began, the prosecutor asked for a life sentence for Nozette, who declared himself not guilty. After Nozette reached an understanding with the prosecutor and pleaded guilty to the one-time attempted espionage, he was sentenced on September 7, 2011 to 13 years in prison.

Selected publications

  • Stewart Nozette, et al .: Integration of lunar polar remote-sensing data sets: Evidence for ice at the lunar south pole . In: Journal of Geophysical Research . 106, 2001, pp. 23253-23266.
  • GH Pettengill, PG Ford, S. Nozette: Venus: Global Surface Radar Reflectivity . In: Science . 217, 1982, pp. 640-642.
  • Stewart Nozette, John S. Lewis: Venus: Chemical Weathering of Igneous Rocks and Buffering of Atmospheric Composition . In: Science . 216, April 9, 1982, pp. 181-183. doi : 10.1126 / science.216.4542.181 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/7/prominent-scientist-pleads-guilty-to-attempted-esp/
  2. ↑ Suspected NASA spy in the US faces the death penalty. In: welt.de . October 31, 2009, accessed January 30, 2015 .


personal data
SURNAME Nozette, Stewart D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nozette, Stewart David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , USA