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SESDA Team Investigates Betelgeuse Surface Mass Ejection
Posted On: June 14, 2022Comments: No Responses
The Astrophysical Journal has accepted for publication the paper, “The Great Dimming of Betelgeuse: A Surface Mass Ejection (SME) and its Consequences” by Dupree et al. The paper analyzed special data taken by the SESDA team using the SECCHI/HI-2 telescope on STEREO Ahead, taking advantage of the spacecraft’s unique position, and rolling by 180°, to […]
SESDA Supports Successful Rocket Launch From Norway
Posted On: June 3, 2022Comments: No Responses
Congratulations to NASA/GSFC and its partners on the successful launch of the Endurance suborbital rocket on May 10, 2022 at from Ny-Ålesund in Svalbard, Norway. Despite numerous challenges that included blizzard weather conditions, delayed shipments of essential flight hardware, a snow mobile accident, and an extensive COVID-19 outbreak at the launch base, the team bravely persevered with resolving […]
Using AI/ML to Discover Comets
Posted On: April 22, 2022Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff has supported operations of SOHO’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) for over 25 years. One of the primary objectives of this instrument is to image the solar corona to study phenomena such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CME’s). A remarkable and unintended by-product of LASCO has been the discovery of over 4000 sungrazing […]
HECN Team Demonstrates High-Speed Networking at SC21
Posted On: January 31, 2022Comments: No Responses
At the SuperComputing 2021 (SC21) event, the SESDA HECN team demonstrated the use of NVMe over Fabric over TCP (NVMe-OF/TCP) technology across a 400-GigE wide-area network (WAN) infrastructure using 200-GigE Mellanox NICs, NVMe SSD drives, and PCIe Gen4 x16 slots in the demo servers. The new NVMe-OF/TCP technology is now fully supported by recent Linux […]
ADNET Supports JWST Launch Activities
Posted On: December 21, 2021Comments: No Responses
Since October 2021 ADNET staff has supported James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch activities in the Goddard Space Flight Center Building 28 atrium including setting up a broadcasting stage with networking for live shows, interviews and a series of major television and social media events. The L-6 Webb Press Conference was carried live on NASA-TV […]
SESDA Supports Another Successful Sounding Rocket Launch
Posted On: August 30, 2021Comments: No Responses
Congratulations to the NASA GSFC and Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) teams on successful launches of two Black Brant suborbital sounding rockets on July 7 and 11, 2021. The twin rockets (named Dynamo-2) deployed identical latest technology payloads designed to measure DC electric fields, plasma density, currents, neutral winds, neutral density and temperature, and ion mass […]
SESDA Supports a Successful Sounding Rocket Launch
Posted On: May 21, 2021Comments: No Responses
Congratulations to the NASA GSFC and Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) teams on the successful launch of a Black Brant XII suborbital sounding rocket at 8:44 p.m. EDT on May 16, 2021. The rocket was launched from WFF and carried the KiNETic eXperiment (KiNet-X) which aims to study how energy and momentum are transported between different […]
SESDA Supports Mars Landing
Posted On: April 5, 2021Comments: No Responses
The NASA audio program, based at Goddard, and led by SESDA staff (Katie Atkinson, lead) supported communications efforts for the Mars Perseverance landing in February. Staff worked with NASA HQ and Jet Propulsion Laboratory communications teams to plan, produce, and release a “Sounds of Mars” episode for the enterprise podcast, NASA’s Curious Universe. With this […]
Applying Machine Learning (ML) to Space Weather Prediction
Posted On: April 5, 2021Comments: No Responses
NASA scientists and University partners are applying Machine Learning (ML) techniques to study the internal structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). With the support of SESDA software developers, they are using neural networks to connect simulations and observed magnetic clouds to understand and predict the internal magnetic structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections which […]
High End Computer Networking Advances
Posted On: December 11, 2020Comments: No Responses
This year’s High End Computer Networking (HECN) Super Computing 2020 (SC20) Wide Area disk-to-disk demonstration was to be performed over a 4x100Gb/s ESNet pathway that continues onto additional wide-area networks. Because ESNet was in the process of upgrading their network they were unable to provide this connection, however plans are to perform these tests in […]
