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GSFC manages operations for many NASA and international missions including the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ), the Explorer program, the Discovery Program, the Earth Observing System ( EOS ), INTEGRAL, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ), the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) and Swift.
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* Orlando Figueroa-formerly the Director of the Applied Engineering & Technology Directorate at the NASA GSFC ( as the " Director of Engineering " he manages the full scope of engineering activities at Goddard ), previously the NASA Mars Czar Director for Mars Exploration and the Director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters
GSFC and operations
Flight operations activities for HST are done at NASA's GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland.
In 1995, budget concerns at NASA almost led to the termination of the mission, but instead the operations responsibilities were redivided, with ESA taking control for 16 hours a day, and GSFC for the remaining 8 only.
The ESA 16 hours was used for science operations, while the GSFC 8 hours was used only for maintenance.
GSFC and for
GSFC is a major U. S. laboratory for developing and operating unmanned scientific spacecraft.
GSFC also operates two spaceflight tracking and data acquisition networks ( the Space Network and the Near Earth Network ), develops and maintains advanced space and Earth science data information systems, and develops satellite systems for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ).
Its purpose was " to become a center of excellence in software assurance, dedicated to making measurable improvement in both the quality and reliability of software developed for NASA at GSFC ".
GSFC is also responsible for the White Sands Complex, a set of two sites in Las Cruces, NM, but the site is owned by Johnson Space Center as part of the White Sands Test Facility.
The Goddard Space Flight Center's ( GSFC ) Spartan-207 satellite was used to deploy and test the Inflatable Antenna Experiment ( IAE ) which laid the groundwork for future technology development in inflatable space structures.
The department is regularly funded by DBT, DST-FIST, GSFC Science Foundation for development of laboratories and purchase of new equipments.
In 2004 Richards returned to NASA GSFC as the Observatory Manager for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ( GOES-R Series ).
Cray Y-MP Model D at NASA Center for Computational Sciences, GSFC
Near-global ozone for 6 September 2004 from NASA / GSFC
Image: Toms-2004-09-06-FULLDAY GLOB. PNG | Near-global ozone for 6 September 2004 from NASA / GSFC.
This joint Japanese and American project is supported by the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics ( LHEA ) at NASA's GSFC and the KEK.
This is a collaborative project that consists of scientists from the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems ( CSISS ) of George Mason University, NASA GSFC, and UMBC.
The NASA Shared Services Center ( NSSC ) currently awards all new grants for NASA HQ, GSFC, NMO, Stennis and Dyrden.
Anshuman Gaekwad worked for GSFC ( Vadodara ) after retiring from Cricket and got took early retirement in 2000.
GSFC and NASA
This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10, 000 year period, from 4000 BC to 6000 AD ( eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA / GSFC. DEPP ).
The Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer ( IRIS ) team was led by Dr. Rudolf A. Hanel from NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center ( GSFC ).
* EGM96 NASA GSFC Earth gravity model
The FITS Support Office at NASA / GSFC maintains a list of libraries and platforms that currently support FITS.
Image: Elizabeth II greets NASA GSFC employees, May 8, 2007 edit. jpg | The Queen
Image credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA / GSFC.
The Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center.
GSFC, one of ten major NASA field centers, is named in recognition of Dr. Robert H. Goddard ( 1882 – 1945 ), the pioneer of modern rocket propulsion in the United States.
Five tiger teams were set up to find and correct the problem, one at each NASA center, from CalTech JPL in the west to Goddard SFC ( GSFC ) in the east.
( Eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA / GSFC.
Satellite image credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA / GSFC
* NASA GSFC IDL 6. 4 Online Help
Image credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA / GSFC.
Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA / GSFC.
Courtesey: NASA / GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response
Transferred to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ) in 1987.
GSFC and missions
Past missions managed by GSFC include the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, SMM, COBE, IUE, and ROSAT.
Typically, unmanned earth observation missions and observatories in Earth orbit are managed by GSFC, while unmanned planetary missions are managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) in Pasadena, California.
GSFC and Hubble
Among his assignments at Ford, he headed the development of the Hubble Space Telescope control center at GSFC.
GSFC and Space
It was then renamed the Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ), after Dr. Robert H. Goddard.
Management of the RLEP program was assigned to Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ) in February, 2004.
Management of LRO was assigned to Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ) in 2004.
Possible glow of Population III stars imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / A. Kashlinsky ( Goddard Space Flight Center | GSFC )
* NASA GSFC 431-REF-000370 Flight Assurance Procedure: Performing a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center ( 10 Aug 1996 ).
MasPar at NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center | GSFC
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