Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Successfully Joins Sunshade to Roman Observatory’s ‘Exoskeleton’

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s deployable aperture cover — a visor-like sunshade that will help prevent unwanted light from entering the telescope — to the outer barrel assembly, another structure designed to shield the telescope from stray light in addition to keeping it at a stable temperat

Posted February 12, 2025

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Astrophysics Division

Astrophysics Pioneers

Kennedy Space Center

Launch Services Office

Launch Services Program

Space Operations Mission Directorate

NASA Awards Launch Service Task Order for Pandora Mission

NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Pandora mission, which will study at least 20 known exoplanets and their host stars to find out how changes in stars affect our observations of exoplanet atmospheres.

Posted February 10, 2025

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Hubble Space Telescope

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People of NASA

Elizabeth Tammi Gives Hubble a Voice

Name: Elizabeth Tammi Title: Hubble Space Telescope Social Media Lead Formal Job Classification: Communications Specialist Organization: Hubble Space Telescope Operations (Code 441) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of Goddard

People of NASA

Jesse Walsh: Possibility at the Cutting Edge of Flight

Name: Jesse Walsh Formal Job Classification: Project Formulation Manager Organization: Project Formulation and Development Office, Flight Projects Directorate (Code 401.0) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025

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People of Goddard

Wallops Flight Facility

Keith Koehler: Listening and Leading as Wallops’ News Chief

Name: Keith Koehler Title: News Chief Formal Job Classification: Public Affairs Specialist Organization: Office of Communications, Wallops Flight Facility, Goddard Space Flight Center (Code 130.4) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025

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People of Goddard

People of NASA

Margaret Dominguez Helps NASA Space Telescopes Open Their ‘Eyes’ to the Universe

Name: Margaret Dominguez Formal Job Classification: Optical engineer Organization: Code 551, Optics Branch, Instrument Systems and Technology Division, Engineering Directorate What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission? I build space telescopes.

Posted February 10, 2025

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People of Goddard

People of NASA

Melissa Gates: Keeping Goddard Running

Name: Melissa Gates Title: Secretary III Organization: Mission Systems Engineering Branch, Engineering Technology Directorate (Code 599) What do you do and what is most interesting about your role here at Goddard? How do you help support Goddard’s mission?

Posted February 10, 2025

Earth

Earth's Moon

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

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The Universe

NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon

Lee esta historia en español aquí When Rose Ferreira first saw an image of a field of galaxies and galaxy clusters from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in July, she “went into the restroom and broke down a little,” she said. This “Deep Field” image showed galaxies not only sharper, but deeper into the universe […]

Posted February 10, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Goddard Technology

People of Goddard

Technology

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Researcher’s AI ‘Eye’ Could Help Robotic Data-Gathering

When it comes to making real-time decisions about unfamiliar data – say, choosing a path to hike up a mountain you’ve never scaled before – existing artificial intelligence and machine learning tech doesn’t come close to measuring up to human skill. That’s why NASA scientist John Moisan is developing an AI 'eye'.

Posted February 10, 2025

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DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging)

People of Goddard

Planetary Science Division

Science Mission Directorate

The Solar System