November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 Principal investigators, project managers, and project scientists gathered to exchange stories and knowledge at the fourth Principal Investigator Team Masters Forum in Annapolis, Maryland.
November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 Ten energy innovations launched to change the world.
November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 Jen Scheer had a great idea to restore Cape Canaveral Air Force Stations Launch Complex 14. But sometimes having the great idea just isnt enough.
November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 Project management was one of NASA’s top five management and performance challenges in 2011, according to a report by Inspector General Paul K. Martin.
November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 Technical excellence is critical for engineering organizations. How one defines, achieves, and maintains it is another question, according to William W. Vaughan of the University of Alabama.
November 29, 2011 Vol. 4, Issue 9 Forty years ago this month, Mariner 9 became the first mission to orbit another planet.
On April 5, 2006, an initial development test was conducted onboard a sounding rocket flight (41.068) which collected analog ground imagery during the descent portion of the rocket’s trajectory and IMU and GPS data from launch to landing. This data was then used to further develop and test Terrain-Relative Navigation (TRN) computer algorithms. The TRaiNED […]
Keith Gendreau received his PhD in astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995, working on X-ray charge-coupled devices and the cosmic X-ray background with the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics mission. He has been at Goddard Space Flight Center since 1995 and was the calibration lead on the X-ray spectrometer instrument on […]
Using an array of telescopes, TESS would perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky. The mission’s primary goal would be to identify terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of nearby stars. George R. Ricker is currently director […]
