Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA has awarded a contract extension to Stanford University, California, to continue the mission and services for the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument on the agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

Posted September 24, 2024

People of Goddard

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of NASA

Julie Rivera Pérez Bridges Business, STEM to ‘Make the Magic Happen’

Senior Resource Analyst Julie Rivera Pérez ensures finances and assets are in place to enable missions’ engineering and science “magic” can happen. As a former intern, she also reaches out to current students to ensure a diverse and inclusive future workforce.

Posted September 24, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

Missions

Planetary Science Division

Celebrating 10 Years at Mars with NASA’s MAVEN Mission

A decade ago, on Sept. 21, 2014, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft entered orbit around Mars, beginning its ongoing exploration of the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere. The mission has produced a wealth of data about how Mars’ atmosphere

Posted September 23, 2024

Aqua

Benefits Back on Earth

Earth

Earth's Atmosphere

Goddard Space Flight Center

Terra

NASA Data Helps Protect US Embassy Staff from Polluted Air

United States embassies and consulates, along with American citizens traveling and living abroad, now have a powerful tool to protect against polluted air, thanks to a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. State Department. Since 2020, ZephAir has provided real-time air quality data for about 75 U.S. diplomatic posts.

Posted September 20, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Lights the Way with New Multiwavelength Galaxy View

The magnificent galaxy featured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1559. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Reticulum, approximately 35 million light-years from Earth. The brilliant light captured in the current image offers a wealth of information.

Posted September 20, 2024

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Solar Eclipses

The Solar System

NASA Develops Process to Create Very Accurate Eclipse Maps

New NASA research reveals a process to generate extremely accurate eclipse maps, which plot the predicted path of the Moon’s shadow as it crosses the face of Earth. Traditionally, eclipse calculations assume that all observers are at sea level on Earth and that the Moon is a smooth sphere that is perfectly symmetrical around its […]

Posted September 19, 2024

Active Galaxies

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Seyfert Galaxies

The Universe

NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions

Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems to have given the spiral a happier outlook thanks to the two bright “eyes” and the wide semicircular “smile.” The region has been observed before in infrared by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005, however […]

Posted September 18, 2024

Goddard Technology

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

Technology

Reinventing the Clock: NASA’s New Tech for Space Timekeeping

Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for example, relies on precise timing signals from satellites to pinpoint locations.

Posted September 18, 2024

Near Space Network

Communicating and Navigating with Missions

Goddard Space Flight Center

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Selects Lunar Relay Contractor for Near Space Network Services

NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems as part of the Near Space Network, operated by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted September 17, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

GOES-R

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Develop Lightning Mapper for NOAA

NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $297.1 million.

Posted September 17, 2024