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People of Goddard
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Joshua Abel's job as lead systems engineer for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Optical Telescope Assembly is "to deliver the assembly to the Roman observatory on time, within budget, and meeting all the technical requirements."
Posted February 10, 2025
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Hubble Space Telescope
People of Goddard
Lynn Bassford levels decades of experience and a desire for self-growth as she helps lead Hubble’s Mission Operations team.
Posted February 10, 2025
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People of Goddard
People of NASA
Podcasts
Katie Konans, NASA’s audio and podcasting lead at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is one of two NASA employees named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. The other agency honoree, Clare Luckey, is a systems engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list is […]
Posted February 10, 2025
Goddard Technology
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People of Goddard
Technology
Photon sieves focus extreme ultraviolet light and can enable Sun science.
Posted February 10, 2025
People of Goddard
Goddard Space Flight Center
Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS)
People of NASA
Science & Research
Science-enabling Technology
Technology
Technology Research
Earth science researcher Dr. Antonia Gambacorta earned the 2023 Goddard IRAD Technology Leadership award for pioneering new ways to measure lower layers of Earth’s atmosphere from space.
Posted February 10, 2025
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
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People of Goddard
Sandra Irish, mechanical systems lead structures engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Resnik Challenger Medal Award for her visionary contributions to the development, testing, transport, and launch of NASA’s premier space telescope since 2006.
Posted February 10, 2025
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Communicating and Navigating with Missions
People of Goddard
Technology
Project support specialist Shaigh Sisk helps keep things running in Goddard's Exploration and Space Communications Projects division - and in her free time, she keeps the pottery wheel turning, fusing science and art in her creations.
Posted February 10, 2025
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Goddard Space Flight Center
People of Goddard
Dr. Marcia Rieke, principal investigator for the Near-Infrared Camera on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s (ASP) 2023 recipient of its most prestigious award.
Posted February 10, 2025
Exoplanets
Astrophysics
Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanet Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
Science & Research
Studying Exoplanets
The Universe
Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the fastest-moving exoplanet system, nearly double our solar system’s speed through the Milky Way. The planetary system is thought to move at least 1.2 million miles per […]
Posted February 10, 2025
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