A Day in the Life of a NASA Satellite Team
Launched on Nov. 20, 2004, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been on the hunt to uncover the mystery of the universe’s most powerful explosions: gamma-ray bursts. These extreme events are some of the farthest objects we’ve ever detected and are associated with some of the most dramatic events in our cosmos, like the collapse of massive stars or the mergers of two neutron stars. In celebration of fifteen years of excellent science, join a Swift scientist as she describes a typical day for the team.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music: "Fiber Optics" from Universal Production Music.
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Scientists
- Regina Caputo (University of Maryland College Park)
- Brad Cenko (NASA/GSFC)
- Joshua E. Schlieder (NASA/GSFC)
- Regina Caputo (NASA/GSFC)
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Animator
- Chris Smith (USRA)
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Producer
- Chris Smith (USRA)
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Narrator
- Regina Caputo (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT.