Orion Goddard Nasa Social 2014
Networks Integration Center B 13, Room NIC
Displays configured for ground and tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS communications for the Orion EFT-1
Presenter: Mark Severance, network director for human spaceflight
Find out more at:
(note: Wireless devices ONLY permitted if powered off or in airplane mode – tour group will be briefed in the NIC lobby prior to B13 access, cameras are ok.
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Independent Verification of Trajectories
Radar sites, part of the Easten Range *lit* Patrick Air Force Base and at Ascencsion Island, as well as the Western Range at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center use radar antennas to ensure a spacecraft is staying on track. This valuable resources, along with Goddard's Flight Dynamics Facility ensure we are point our antennas in the right place, every time.
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For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event Dec. 3, previewing the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.
Goddard hosted up to 25 social media followers to attend an afternoon celebrating the Orion launch. Attendees toured the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, where Martian meteorites and other samples are tested to answer two of the biggest mysteries facing humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? We'll also tour Goddard's massive Integration and Testing Facility, where spacecraft are built and tested and the world's largest cleanroom where the James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed. Webb is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.
Orion Goddard Nasa Social 2014
Networks Integration Center B 13, Room NIC
Displays configured for ground and tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS communications for the Orion EFT-1
Presenter: Mark Severance, network director for human spaceflight
Find out more at:
(note: Wireless devices ONLY permitted if powered off or in airplane mode – tour group will be briefed in the NIC lobby prior to B13 access, cameras are ok.
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Independent Verification of Trajectories
Radar sites, part of the Easten Range *lit* Patrick Air Force Base and at Ascencsion Island, as well as the Western Range at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center use radar antennas to ensure a spacecraft is staying on track. This valuable resources, along with Goddard's Flight Dynamics Facility ensure we are point our antennas in the right place, every time.
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For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event Dec. 3, previewing the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.
Goddard hosted up to 25 social media followers to attend an afternoon celebrating the Orion launch. Attendees toured the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, where Martian meteorites and other samples are tested to answer two of the biggest mysteries facing humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? We'll also tour Goddard's massive Integration and Testing Facility, where spacecraft are built and tested and the world's largest cleanroom where the James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed. Webb is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.