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SESDA Supports Development of NICER Repair Tools
Posted On: August 6, 2024Comments: No Responses
The extremely successful GSFC project, NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), was launched in June of 2017. In 2023 it was damaged by debris and its operating time became limited to nighttime observations only. SESDA personnel contributed to the rapid development and fabrication of the repair parts, and a repair plan was put in place. […]
SESDA Team Supports Two Successful Sounding Rocket Launches
Posted On: November 20, 2023Comments: No Responses
Congratulations to SESDA engineers and their colleagues in the Ionospheric, Thermospheric, Mesospheric (ITM) Physics Laboratory (Code 675) for their support of two successful sounding rocket launches from Poker Flats, Alaska. The first rocket (Dissipation, top image) launched on November 8th to study how solar wind charged particles dissipate their energy in the high latitude ionosphere-thermosphere. […]
SESDA Team Supports the October 14, 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse
Posted On: October 26, 2023Comments: No Responses
Congratulations to the SESDA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (HEAT) and its partners for their extraordinary support of the annular solar eclipse event on October 14, 2023. Team members traveled to Albuquerque NM where they organized and implemented educational activities for numerous enthusiastic participants visiting the NASA tent at the 2023 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The […]
ADNET personnel played key roles in the creation of the NASA HQ Earth Information Center in Washington
Posted On: July 19, 2023Comments: No Responses
The Earth Information Center (EIC), located in the east lobby of the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington opened its doors to both NASA personnel and the public following a ribbon cutting ceremony led by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on June 21. The EIC allows visitors to see how the planet is changing […]
GISS Hosts GSFC Leadership
Posted On: December 28, 2022Comments: No Responses
GISS has been in the news again – 2 weeks after supporting the NASA administrator’s visit, GISS hosted GSFC leadership including Dennis Andrucyk, the Director of GSFC. ADNET staff and GISS’ FOM Sabrina Hosein organized both visits, improvising a presentation space in the midst of our building renovations that showed GISS in its best light.
SESDA Supports Artemis I Mission
Posted On: December 12, 2022Comments: No Responses
The Moon to Mars (M2M) Space Weather Analysis Office is supporting the Artemis I mission by monitoring space weather conditions and providing expert analysis to NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG). M2M is running various models and software as part of the Integrated Solar Energetic Proton Alert/Warning System (ISEP) project and has a dedicated space […]
ADNET staff supported NASA Administrator Bill Nelson’s visit to GISS in New York
Posted On: November 14, 2022Comments: No Responses
SESDA staff set up and monitored a climate-focused All Hands meeting held at GISS with NASA’s Administrator Bill Nelson and ensured that all went smoothly. Turnout was over 60 people.
ADNET Scientists Analyze Micronesian Phytoplankton
Posted On: September 28, 2022Comments: No Responses
ADNET scientists Jim Acker and Alexis Hunzinger recently authored a study that was featured on the cover of the journal Earth. In October 2013, ocean color remote sensing data acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite showed a unique elevated phytoplankton chlorophyll feature extending eastward from Chuuk Lagoon in the Federated […]
SESDA Assists Lava Tube Modeling
Posted On: June 30, 2022Comments: No Responses
In support of NASA’s Goddard Instrument Field Team (GIFT), SESDA’s Caela Barry acted as the logistics and public engagement lead during a May field trip to California’s Medicine Lake Volcano and Lava Beds National Monument. While there, the team used instrumentation such as magnetometers, LIDAR, and ground penetrating radar to locate, map, and characterize several […]
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 […]
