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            "title": "BurstCube Deploys from International Space Station",
            "description": "The shoebox-sized BurstCube and SNOOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation) satellites entered low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station on April 18, 2024.BurstCube will study gamma-ray bursts, the universe’s most powerful explosions. SNOOPI will demonstrate technology for measuring soil moisture. These CubeSats launched to the space station aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission on March 21, 2024 || ",
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            "title": "BurstCube Completes Magnetic Calibration",
            "description": "BurstCube is a mission developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. It is expected to launch in March 2024. This CubeSat will detect short gamma-ray bursts, brief flashes of the highest-energy form of light. Dense stellar remnants called neutron stars create these bursts when they collide with other neutron stars or black holes. Short gamma-ray bursts, which last less than 2 seconds, are important sources for gravitational wave discoveries and multimessenger astronomy. BurstCube will use Earth’s magnetic field to orientate itself as it scans the sky. To do so, the mission team had to map the spacecraft’s own magnetic field using a special facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The magnetic calibration chamber generates a known magnetic field that cancels out Earth’s. The team's measurements of BurstCube’s field in the chamber will help figure out where the satellite is pointing once in space, so scientists can locate gamma-ray bursts and tell other observatories where to look. || ",
            "release_date": "2023-12-18T13:00:00-05:00",
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                "alt_text": "The BurstCube mission team visits the magnetic calibration chamber at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, in this video. The first shot shows the exterior of the building. The ensuing shots show the interior. The grey beams are made from carbon fiber and are held together by aluminum screws. The entire building is designed to avoid, as much as possible, any material that might generate a magnetic field. The fourth and fifth shots show engineers Kate Gasaway (NASA) and Justin Clavette (SSAI) lifting BurstCube out of its travel case while Benjamin Gauvain (NASA) looks on. In the sixth shot, engineers remove BurstCube – within another protective case – from a foil bag designed to avoid electrostatic discharge. In the seventh shot, Clavette sets up equipment for monitoring the spacecraft. In the eighth shot, Rob Marshall (Peraton), an environmental testing lead, watches a readout on a computer monitor. In the ninth shot, Gauvin and Pavel Galchenko (NASA) watch and report on the calibration data coming from the spacecraft. The tenth shot is another view of Marshall looking at his computer monitor. The eleventh shot shows Clavette testing BurstCube ahead of calibration before Gasaway puts the protective lid back on over it. The twelfth shot shows Gasaway connecting more wires to the spacecraft. The thirteenth shot pans over the interior of the magnetic calibration chamber. The final shot shows one of the manuals engineers used during testing.\r\rCredit: NASA/Sophia Roberts",
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            "title": "BurstCube Gets Its Solar Panels",
            "description": "Engineers work on the BurstCube mission’s solar panels in this video. The first shot pans across the spacecraft as it rests on a table, panels unfolded. The second shot starts close to the spacecraft, then pulls back. The third shot shows NASA engineers Julie Cox and Kate Gasaway attaching one of the panels. The fourth shot shows one of the unattached panels sitting on a piece of foil on a blue tabletop. The fifth shot is a wider view of the unattached panel with Cox in view. The sixth and seventh shots show Cox and Gasaway attaching the second panel to the other side of the spacecraft, from the side and above, respectively. The final shot shows a test deployment of the solar panels. Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.00060_print.jpg (1024x540) [110.8 KB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.00060_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.1 KB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.00060_thm.png (80x40) [5.4 KB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.webm (4096x2160) [28.3 MB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_Clips4k_ProRes.mov (4096x2160) [7.6 GB] || BurstCube_Solar_Panel_Install_4k.mp4 (4096x2160) [1.0 GB] || ",
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            "title": "BurstCube Completes an Open-Sky Test",
            "description": "This video shows engineers conducting an open-sky test of the BurstCube satellite’s GPS at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The first shot shows Benjamin Nold (NASA) and Justin Clavette (SSAI) sitting around the spacecraft on a rooftop while Kate Gasaway (NASA) works in the background. The second shot shows Gasaway and Clavette looking at a laptop in the background, with BurstCube in the foreground. The third shot shows birds landing on an antenna on the rooftop. The fourth shot shows Clavette and Nold crouched next to the BurstCube satellite. The fifth shot shows Gasaway typing on the laptop. The sixth shot is a closer view of Gasaway and Clavette looking at the laptop. The eighth shot shows some of the electronics used to monitor the spacecraft. The ninth shot shows the data readout from the spacecraft on the laptop. The final shots show birds flying over the rooftop.  Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts || Open_Air_test_4k.01440_print.jpg (1024x540) [103.1 KB] || Open_Air_test_4k.01440_searchweb.png (320x180) [74.5 KB] || Open_Air_test_4k.01440_web.png (320x168) [70.2 KB] || Open_Air_test_4k.01440_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || Open_Air_test_4k.webm (4096x2160) [27.4 MB] || Open_Air_test_4k.mp4 (4096x2160) [891.4 MB] || BurstCube_Open_Air_test_4k_ProRes.mov (4096x2160) [6.5 GB] || ",
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                "alt_text": "This video shows engineers conducting an open-sky test of the BurstCube satellite’s GPS at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The first shot shows Benjamin Nold (NASA) and Justin Clavette (SSAI) sitting around the spacecraft on a rooftop while Kate Gasaway (NASA) works in the background. The second shot shows Gasaway and Clavette looking at a laptop in the background, with BurstCube in the foreground. The third shot shows birds landing on an antenna on the rooftop. The fourth shot shows Clavette and Nold crouched next to the BurstCube satellite. The fifth shot shows Gasaway typing on the laptop. The sixth shot is a closer view of Gasaway and Clavette looking at the laptop. The eighth shot shows some of the electronics used to monitor the spacecraft. The ninth shot shows the data readout from the spacecraft on the laptop. The final shots show birds flying over the rooftop.  \r\rCredit: NASA/Sophia Roberts",
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            "title": "BurstCube Integration",
            "description": "BurstCube is a mission under development at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This CubeSat will detect short gamma-ray bursts, which are important sources for gravitational wave discoveries and multimessenger astronomy. The satellite is expected to launch in March 2024. || ",
            "release_date": "2022-10-31T11:00:00-04:00",
            "update_date": "2023-12-15T11:44:00.427620-05:00",
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                "alt_text": "An individual circuit board rests on a lab bench. The BurstCube mission will use these boards to process data collected from gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the cosmos. Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts",
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            "description": "BurstCube is a mission under development at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This CubeSat will detect short gamma-ray bursts, which are important sources for gravitational wave discoveries and multimessenger astronomy. The satellite is expected to launch in 2023. || ",
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                "alt_text": "This animation rotates BustCube to reveal the spacecraft’s narrowest sides, as well as both sides of the solar panels. The panels will be folded down and latched until the satellite leaves the International Space Station, after which they will deploy. Look for the side displaying the BurstCube logo. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab\r",
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