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Goddard Technology
Goddard Space Flight Center
ISS Research
Technology
A new, higher-resolution infrared camera outfitted with a variety of lightweight filters could probe sunlight reflected off Earth’s upper atmosphere and surface, improve forest fire warnings, and reveal the molecular composition of other planets.
Posted May 22, 2024
Goddard Technology
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
Wallops Flight Facility
Large amounts of data collected by today’s sensitive science instruments present a data-handling challenge to small rocket and balloon suborbital mission computing and avionics systems.
Posted May 1, 2024
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Earth
Earth Science Division
Earth Science Technology Office
Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Technology
Science Mission Directorate
Technology
It took the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission just 13 minutes to reach low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in February 2024. It took a network of scientists at NASA and research institutions around the world more than 20 years to carefully craft and test the novel instruments that allow PACE […]
Posted April 26, 2024
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Technology
Missions
Science-enabling Technology
Technology
The Universe
Engineers at L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have combined all 10 mirrors for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Preliminary tests show the newly aligned optics, collectively called the IOA (Imaging Optics Assembly), will direct light into Roman’s science instruments extremely precisely.
Posted April 17, 2024
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