GLASTcast: Meet the Team
Date: Aug. 7, 2008
View interviews with members of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope.
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IBEX: What are the boundaries of our solar system?
Date: July 31, 2008
There are several boundaries at the edge of our solar system. The IBEX
mission will study these boundaries to help us understand how they
protect us here on Earth and astronauts in space form the galactic
cosmic rays coming from interstellar space. In this video, Dr. Eric
Christian, IBEX program scientist, and Dave McComas, IBEX principal
investigator, will explain what the boundaries of our solar system are.
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About IBEX: Exploring the Edge of Our Solar System
Date: June 10, 2008
This video describes the Interstellar Boundary Explorer and what it will look for as it probes the outer limits of our solar system.
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GLASTcast Video 4
Date: June 10, 2008
Fourth in a series of videos about the GLAST mission. This video describes what it will be like to launch GLAST.
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GLASTcast Video 3
Date: June 10, 2008
Third in a series of videos about the GLAST mission. This video compares GLAST to a previous mission, Swift.
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Hello, SDO!
Date: June 9, 2008
This video introduces NASA's new mission to the sun. The Solar Dynamics Observatory is scheduled to launch in late 2008.
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Wide Field Camera 3: Extending Hubble's Vision
Date: June 6, 2008
This video describes the new Wide Field Camera 3, which will be installed on the Hubble Space Telescope as part of Servicing Mission 4.
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GLASTcast Video 2
Date: May 30, 2008
Second in a series of videos about the GLAST mission.
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GLASTcast Video 1
Date: May 30, 2008
First in a series of videos about the GLAST mission.
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Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO
Date: May 1, 2008
NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft.
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New Hubble Components Endure Harsh Testing
Date: March 13, 2008
Space is not a hospitable place, and when scientists and engineers design and build new components for the Hubble Space Telescope, that fact is always clearly in mind. That’s where the environmental testing chambers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., come into play.
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SDO: Command Accepted!
Date: March 10, 2008
After launch in late 2008, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will help scientists to better understand solar variability and aid in predictions of space weather. SDO will also mark a new era in the delivery of high volumes of science data. New 18-meter Ka band dishes at the White Sands Testing Facility in New Mexico wait in readiness as engineers test and review operations.
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SDO Presents
Date: March 3, 2008
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, due to launch later in 2008, will discover how the sun builds up and explosively releases magnetic energy, which powers severe space weather. This video gives a brief introduction to what SDO will study about the sun.
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HST Crew Aids and Tools
Date: February 21, 2008
The Hubble would not be able to do what it does without the help of a small group of dedicated engineers and technicians at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. It's up to mission operations staff to upload the commands to Hubble that tell it where to point and when, what sensing instruments to use, and when to send data back to Earth. They also troubleshoot any problems that may arise.
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HST Crew Aids and Tools
Date: January 24, 2008
The delicate and elaborate work astronauts will perform on the Hubble Space Telescope as part of Servicing Mission 4 requires a unique set of tools and aids. The Crew Aids and Tools team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is responsible for designing and manufacturing that special equipment.
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Return with LRO
Date: December 6, 2007
The Deputy Project Manager for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) program, Cathy Peddie, expresses her personal and professional thoughts on the upcoming LRO mission. From following in the footsteps of her childhood heroes, to building, testing, and integrating the LRO instruments, to how LRO may play into future missions.
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Engineer Divers
Date: November 16, 2007
Hubble Space Telescope engineers from the Goddard Space Flight Center dive along side the Servicing Mission 4 crew as they train for the mission in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston .
The Goddard engineers study the crew’s use of the tools and crew aids they developed for the mission. With each dive run, revisions to equipment and tools may be necessary, so having the Goddard engineers experience the runs along with the astronauts allows the team instant insight into what needs to be improved upon. This collaborative relationship greatly helps increase mission preparation and training efficiency.
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TRMM Turns Ten
Date: November 9, 2007
We all feel the rain. But measuring it is another story. Precipitation in its many forms energizes and propels climate behavior. Before TRMM, there
was no reliable way to gather worldwide data on precipitation phenomena. Now ten years into a fantastically successful mission, TRMM has helped re-define what scientists know about how precipitation behaves regionally as well as how it interacts with global climate.
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SM 4 Crew Training
Date: September 21, 2007
The Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4 crew works closely with Goddard Space Flight Center engineers as they prepare for the next, and last, Hubble servicing mission. Mission Commander Scott Altman describes why the astronauts come to Goddard as part of their mission training.
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SeaWiFS Turns Ten
Date: September 17, 2007
Now entering its second decade, SeaWiFS continues to deliver the most consistent, most precisely measured readings of the planet’s overall biological health. Its daily measurements of ocean and land color provide a solid accounting of how well plant life on Earth manages to convert carbon dioxide into growth. This not only provides a snapshot of overall plant health, but also serves as a proxy for bigger questions, like global carbon
dioxide trends and large scale climate change.
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Solar-B
Date: May 11, 2007
A new observatory called Solar-B will bring scientists a step closer to unraveling the mysteries of the sun’s corona and understanding the mechanism of solar explosions. Solar-B was named Hinode after launch.
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Hubble Space Telescope
Date: February 12, 2007
NASA has announced it will once again send a space shuttle crew to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, bringing a pair of new instruments and opening the door to an exciting new era of science from the world's most powerful observatory. Service mission success means an advanced, healthy Hubble Space Telescope and that means: new discoveries, new science and new insights into our place in the universe.
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THEMIS
Date: February 2, 2007
The THEMIS satellites are designed to be placed strategically along the sun-earth line and track the flow of energy from one to the other, very much like meteorologists use buoys out in the ocean to track large ocean waves as they move from one buoy to the other in order to understand the flow of atmospheric energy.
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STEREO
Date: March 22, 2006
When the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) launches in Summer 2006, scientists expect to gain a better understanding of solar storms and improve warning times for everyone from satellite operators to astronauts.
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