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SESDA Supports JWST at SXSW
Posted On: March 29, 2013Comments: No Responses
South by Southwest (SXSW) is one of the largest cultural festivals in the country, with activities related to music, film, and interactive technology that runs for two weeks in Austin, TX. And this year, NASA was there! During the Interactive Festival weekend on March 8-10, NASA and its partners (including several SESDA 3 Outreach Specialists) […]
Strange Jets on Saturn’s Surface
Posted On: March 5, 2013Comments: No Responses
Jet streams on Saturn can take unusual forms such as the curious hexagonal shape seen in this image taken by the Cassini spacecraft’s wide-angle camera. During February 2013, it was the Composite Infrared Spectrometer’s (CIRS) turn to collect data on this impressive feature, with SESDA 3 instrument operations staff helping to plan the observation, create […]
SESDA Outreach Staff Go the Distance to Promote NASA Science
Posted On: February 8, 2013Comments: One Response
In October and November, two SESDA Education and Public Outreach specialists traveled to Punta Arenas, Chile, to support NASA’s Operation IceBridge 2012 Antarctic campaign. The mission purpose is to supply critical ice dynamics data, bridging the gap in coverage between the defunct IceSat I and the upcoming IceSat II spacecraft. The IceBridge airborne science campaign […]
HECN staff presented with NASA Group Achievement Award
Posted On: January 22, 2013Comments: One Response
The SESDA staff of the High End Computer Networking (HECN) team was presented with a NASA Group Achievement Award as part of the Nebula Test Team at the Goddard Space Flight Center. The citation quotes the award recipients "for their outstanding achievements through the evaluation of NASA Cloud Computing Capabilities". The award honor ceremony was […]
HECN Demonstrates 100Gps File Transfer
Posted On: January 4, 2013Comments: No Responses
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) High End Computer Networking (HECN) team demonstrated file transfers over 100 Gbit per second (100Gps) at the NASA booth at Super Computing 2012 (SC12) using RAID servers built by the team. Local network connections were provided by SCinet network, and over the Wide Area via the Department of Energy's […]
Large Scale MMS LEGO Model!
Posted On: January 3, 2013Comments: No Responses
A large 1/10 scale model of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft made entirely out of LEGO® bricks is on display at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Guided by SESDA 3 education specialists and using illustrations of the spacecraft provided by NASA engineers, a selected student team at West Virginia University carefully sifted through more than […]
SESDA Engineers Produce “Transparent Copper”
Posted On: January 2, 2013Comments: No Responses
In a significant milestone for Goddard’s upcoming Primordial Inflation Polarization Explorer (PIPER) mission, a team of SESDA engineers have completed the first of three flight polarizers. These are the first optical element in the PIPER instrument, as there is no window in the cryogenic open optics configuration for this suborbital balloon mission. The polarizer comprises […]
Bringing the Universe Closer to You
Posted On: October 23, 2012Comments: No Responses
One of our Education and Public Outreach specialists is a primary host, interviewer, blogger, and editor for NASA Blueshift, a portal to all things related to Goddard’s Astrophysics Science Division. Their main web page is the entry point for podcasts, blogs, and downloads that help the public better understand the groundbreaking discoveries, innovative technology, new […]
SESDA III Outreach Extends to India
Posted On: October 22, 2012Comments: No Responses
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Education and Outreach team was part of a delegation that included scientists, engineers, and outreach professionals from NASA HQ, GSFC, JPL, Stanford University, and Grove of Hope, who were invited to the Coimbatore Space Festival hosted by Bharathiar University in Coimbatore, India in July 2012. The festival was a resounding […]
Curiosity survives “seven minutes of terror”
Posted On: August 8, 2012Comments: No Responses
Congratulations to our SESDA II team supporting the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on the Curiosity rover. The rover successfully survived a challenging and harrowing landing on Mars early on August 6th. After years of planning, designing, building, and testing, the SAM instrument suite will now play a vital role in the search for […]
