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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Hardware Highlights: Winter 2024
In this video, covering the winter of 2024, Goddard’s high-capacity centrifuge goes through tests and then performs tests of the instrument carrier which will hold Roman’s two instruments. The centrifuge is 120 feet across and can spin at over 30 rpm. For the test, the instrument carrier holds test masses for the Wide Field Instrument…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Hardware Highlights: Fall 2023
In this video, covering the fall of 2023, the instrument carrier which will hold Roman’s two instruments is in Goddard’s largest clean room and has some attachment hardware added to it. The 5.6-foot (1.7-meter) wide high gain antenna, Roman’s main connection to Earth, is more fully integrated with the communication system…
XRISM Exploring the Hidden X-ray Cosmos
Learn more about XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), a collaboration between JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA.
Installing The Roman Space Telescope’s Nervous System
The Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another.
NASA to Study Effects of Radio Noise on Lunar Science
In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Pole as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative…
Landsat Next Defined
Landsat Next is on the horizon—the new mission will not only ensure continuity of the longest space-based record of Earth’s land surface…
NASA’s Laser Communications: To the Space Station and Beyond
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts…
Roman’s Primary Structure Enters the Cleanroom
The primary structure that will serve as the “bones” of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into the big cleanroom at NASA’s Goddard…
PACE’s Instruments Reveal a New Dimension of Atmospheric Info
Two instruments on NASA’s upcoming PACE satellite mission will look at aerosols and clouds – the A and C in the mission’s name, Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds…
NASA’s Mars Mission Shields Up for Tests
Set far away from residents and surrounded by dunes, the Remote Hypervelocity Test Laboratory at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has supported every human spaceflight program from…
What’s Up at Wallops?
From sounding rockets to scientific balloons to research aircraft, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is a unique national asset that has a lot to offer…
The Roman Space Telescope’s Coronagraph Instrument
When a new NASA space telescope opens its eyes in the mid 2020s, it will peer at the universe through some of the most sophisticated sunglasses ever designed. This multi-layered technology, the coronagraph instrument…
NASA Goddard’s Recipe for Fresh Baked Spacecraft
You’ve heard of baked potatoes, baked cakes, and baked ziti, but how about baked spacecraft? As we prepare the Plankton, Aerosol, and cloud Ecosystem satellite for launch, we’re gathering all the ingredients, instruments…
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) Overview
LCRD) will fly as a hosted payload aboard a Department of Defense spacecraft as part of the Space Test Program (STP-3) mission. LCRD will continue NASA’s exploration of laser communications to support future missions…
Artemis I: Empowered by NASA’s Networks
NASA’s Artemis missions are returning humanity to the Moon and beginning a new era of lunar exploration. This year, the agency plans to launch the Artemis I mission, an uncrewed test flight that will take a…