Doing Business with ETD
Innovative Success Through Collaborative Partnerships
The ETD works with Academia, Industry and Engineering Partners in establishing reciprocal access to facilities and personnel expertise to cultivate a dynamic environment for collaborative Space Engineering and technology development.
Partnership Capability Highlights
ETD capabilities have applications across a broad spectrum of activities, both aerospace and non-aerospace related and are available to support a variety of external customers. The following are a few capability highlights.
Detector Development Lab (DDL)
The DDL is a microelectronics fabrication facility dedicated to the development of advanced detectors, micro-electrical-mechanical-systems (MEMS), nano-scale devices, circuits, and components for NASA’s missions. The laboratory is built around a 4,800 square foot, ISO 5…
Detector Characterization Lab (DCL)
The DCL is a flight qualified facility for complete optical and electrical characterization from individual detectors to large format focal plane arrays operating from the UV and Visible to the far-IR spectrum and from sub-Kelvin to ambient…
Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF)
Located at Goddard Space Flight Center as part of the Navigation and Mission Design Branch, the Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) is a provider of comprehensive flight dynamics services to space communications networks, science and exploration programs, and expendable launch vehicle providers. The FDF’s professional staff…
Open Source Software
ETD’s Software Engineering teams provide software products, services and expertise to ensure the success of NASA missions and NASA partners. Products, services and expertise include flight, ground and science data systems and technologies, mission environments, software engineering, software systems…
Quantum Engineering and Sensing Technology Laboratory (QuEST)
GSFC’s QuEST Lab provides unique testbeds and world-class experimental facilities to perform research and development and technology maturation of atomic sensors and laser subsystems for space science. Goddard has established a laboratory facility to enable…
Flight Systems Integration and Test (I&T)
Flight Systems I&T is responsible for leading the integration and test activities for flight science instruments, special payloads, carriers, and spacecraft. Components and/or subsystems are received after completing their respective verification programs, ready for integration…
ETD Capability Spotlight
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. Three teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are at work to push timekeeping for space exploration to new levels of precision. The need for increasingly accurate timekeeping is why these teams at NASA Goddard…
Partnering Resources
NASA NSPIRES
NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System supports research in science and technology as an important part of NASA’s overall mission.
SBIR/STTR Program
The NASA Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program is part of America’s Seed Fund, the nation’s largest source of early-stage non-dilutive funding for innovative technologies.
Strategic Partnerships Office
The Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO) assists in bringing Goddard’s cutting-edge technology to the private sector. Their team of technology managers collaborates with a diverse group of professionals to forge relationships and agreements.
Partner with ETD
We enjoy responsive, mutually beneficial relationships with organizations in a broad range of scientific and technological fields. Briefing us on your capabilities will help us understand who you are, what you do and what products you offer that would be of mutual benefit. If you have a complementary area of technology or research to support Goddard’s missions and ETD’s core capabilities, we look forward to hearing from you.