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ETD Electrical Engineering Division

EED | Code 560

Paving the way for exploration

The Electrical Engineering Division’s (EED) vision is leading the world in aerospace electrical engineering innovation to pioneer new scientific discoveries using innovative hardware supporting missions from sounding rockets to spaceflight missions.

EED provides expert leadership in the design, development and testing of flight electrical/electronic systems and associated technologies for GSFC and NASA missions. Electronics developed by EED engineers reach across the solar system from Earth, to the Moon, and several other planets providing valuable data leading to exciting scientific discoveries and helping to pave the way for human exploration of the Solar System to connect us to world beyond our own.

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PACE enters the thermal vacuum chamber for testing.
Code 560 and 566 Radio Frequency Ground Station Development.
Code 560 and 566 Radio Frequency Ground Station Development.

Mission

Develop world class space flight electrical systems to enable NASA’s science, technology, and space exploration missions with industry, university, and other government agency partners.

Our electrical engineering expertise in the development of electrical and electronic systems for suborbital and space-based projects, pioneers design, analysis, integration and testing of flight data systems, space radiation, parts, power, instrument electronics, avionics, telecommunications networks, flight microwave and telecommunication systems as well as balloon experiments.

The James Webb Space Telescope's solar array is used to help power the observatory by converting sunlight into electrical energy.

Connecting the World to Systems Beyond

Division Leadership

  • 560
Jessica Lounsbury, 550 Chief and 560 Chief (Acting).
Jessica Lounsbury
Chief (Acting)
Phuc Nguyen, 560 Assistant Chief
Phuc Nguyen
Associate Chief
Manuel Balvin, 560 Associate Chief (Acting)
Manuel Balvin
Associate Chief
Chris Green, 560 Assistant Chief for Technology.
Chris Green
Assistant Chief for Technology
John Godfrey, 560 Chief Engineer.
John Godfrey
Chief Engineer

Contact EED

The members of the Electrical Engineering Division welcome questions and comments. Please contact the Electrical Engineering Division office at 301-286-5118.


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ABOUT ETD

The Engineering & Technology Directorate at Goddard designs missions, builds satellites and instruments, operates and controls spacecrafts, and acquires/distributes data to the world-wide science community. ETD data products are used to conduct research in Earth and Space Sciences that benefit both the nation and the world.

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