STORIE Thermal Vacuum Test at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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NASA’s STORIE mission, or Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution, has completed its design, build, and testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its six-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS).

From its unique vantage point on the ISS, STORIE will use its onboard neutral atom imager to provide an “inside out” view of Earth’s ring current – a region of the magnetosphere where energetic particles are trapped in near-Earth space. In addition to answering fundamental questions about the ring current’s intensity and composition, STORIE will also provide a more detailed understanding of how geomagnetic storms affect Earth.

From NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, STORIE will be shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where it will be integrated onto a pallet to be installed outside the ISS’s Columbus Module. STORIE will head to the ISS aboard a SpaceX commercial resupply flight no earlier than spring 2026.

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STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

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STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Credit: NASA/Beth Anthony

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

STORIE team members prepare the instrument for thermal vacuum testing in the Integration and Test Complex at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young

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