ETD Capabilities Listing
Versatile Capability Solutions for NASA and Beyond
Beyond meeting the needs of NASA programs, ETD capabilities are applicable to a wide range of activities, both in aerospace and other fields, and are accessible to support various internal and external clients.
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Sub-Kelvin Detector Fabrication and Characterization Capability
Using temperatures below 1 K in detector systems opens access of NASA mission concepts to exquisite performance metrics and instrument designs. A vanishingly narrow superconducting wire can enable photon counting of emanations from faint…
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Environmental Test Engineering & Integration
The Environmental Test Engineering and Integration Branch provides comprehensive Integration and Test (I&T) services that enable mission success. We provide projects with cleanrooms and test facilities for building flight hardware and ensuring that it will withstand…
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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…
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Materials Engineering
Materials Engineering provides onsite access to over 20 staffed laboratories supporting materials testing and analysis and specific subject matter expertise in materials and processes (M&P) topics including, but not limited to, metallurgy, composites, failure analysis, tribology, non-destructive evaluation…
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core Flight System (cFS)
The Core Flight Software (cFS) Bundle is a comprehensive, platform-independent software framework designed to support embedded real-time systems. Its architecture is optimized for reuse, rapid development, and portability across diverse mission environments. Built around a dynamic runtime…
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Contamination and Coatings Engineering
Contamination and Coatings Engineering is interwoven into the fabric of support for every mission to provide the technology and support needed to meet the cleanliness, thermal coatings, and planetary protection requirements of spacecraft and instruments…
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Generative Design
The Goddard Flight Facility Center’s Evolved Structures technology uses generative design and digital manufacturing to automate and optimize development of spacecraft and science instrument structures, improving structure performance by 3x and reducing development time…
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Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)
The Goddard Engineering and Technology Directorate (ETD) has the capability to design, layout, analyze, and model PICs at the system and component level. ETD can characterize performance and integrate into higher level systems, especially for remote sensing instruments for scientific applications…
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Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)
The Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) was established to enhance basic solar-terrestrial research and to aid in the development of models for specifying and forecasting conditions in the space environment…
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Optical Alignment, Integration, and Test (AI&T)
The Engineering and Technology Directorate (ETD) specializes in precision engineering — enabling the design, construction, and support through flight of precision devices for space science, especially scientific instrumentation. ETD personnel perform precision…
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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…
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Mechanical Systems Analysis and Simulation
Navigation hardware is designed, and performance tested at Goddard. The Formation Flying Testbed (FFTB) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) provides a world-class hardware-in-the-loop test environment for testing and demonstration…
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The Formation Flying Testbed
Navigation hardware is designed, and performance tested at Goddard. The Formation Flying Testbed (FFTB) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) provides a world-class hardware-in-the-loop test environment for testing and demonstration…
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Flight Data Systems
Flight Data Systems provides end-to-end flight data systems engineering services, enabling both in-house and out-of-house missions at NASA. We develop a wide range of hardware components in support of flight projects. Components are comprised of circuit card assemblies and/or complex programmable…
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Integrated Design Center (IDC)
The Integrated Design Center (IDC) is a multi-disciplinary, concurrent Engineering Facility that specializes in rapid conceptual mission and instrument design. The Center has two dedicated facilities located at NASA Goddard in Greenbelt and one located at Wallops Flight Facility. At these ETD lab facilities, design teams and customers collaborate in an environment that promotes rapid…
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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…