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By observing millions of stars over time, it will track changes across the cosmos capturing exploding stars, belching black holes, neutron star mergers, and more phenomena as they unfold. || ", "hits": 761 }, { "id": 14878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14878/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-31T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing the Roman Space Telescope Lower Instrument Sun Shade", "description": "Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 14864, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14864/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-10T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope Solar Panels are Fully Installed", "description": "On June 14 and 16, technicians installed solar panels onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun Shield, these panels will power and shade the observatory, enabling all the mission’s observations and helping keep the instruments cool.The Solar Array Sun Shield is made up of six panels, each covered in solar cells. The two central panels will remain fixed to the outer barrel assembly (the observatory’s outer shell) while the other four will deploy once Roman is in space, swinging up to align with the center panels.In this video, watch how the technicians carefully place each solar panel. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 14649, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14649/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-08-09T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope's Deployable Aperture Cover", "description": "Located at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Space Environment Simulator is a large, vertical cryopumped test chamber capable of achieving ultra-low pressures and a wide range of thermal conditions. Here engineers are testing the the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Deployable Aperture Cover. The DAC is responsible for keeping light out of the telescope barrel. This sunshade is deployed once in orbit using a soft material attached to support booms and remains in this position throughout the observatory's lifetime. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 14583, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14583/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-05-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Artemis & JETT5 Interview with Kelsey Young", "description": "Dr. Kelsey Young is the Artemis Science Flight Operations Lead and works at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Complete transcript available.Dr. Young discusses the JETT5 mission, which was conducted May 13-17. During JETT5, astronauts performed a series of simulated moonwalks in the San Francisco Volcanic Field near Flagstaff, Arizona, while flight controllers and scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas guided and provided feedback on their progress. JETT5 was designed to prepare crew members for the historic Artemis III mission that will land near the Moon’s south pole.00:00:00:00 – What is your role in NASA’s Artemis missions?00:00:58:03 – What was the JETT5 mission, and what activities did it include?00:01:49:03 – Why are mission simulations like JETT5 critical?00:02:32:20 – Why was Arizona chosen as the site of the JETT5 field test?00:03:44:18 – Why were the field tests conducted both in daytime and at night?00:04:39:13 – Where were Mission Control team members and scientists located?00:05:21:26 – What is the Science Evaluation Room for the Artemis missions?00:06:10:17 – What are the activities and roles within the Science Evaluation Room?00:06:49:00 – What science payloads will the Artemis crew deploy on the lunar surface?00:07:22:28 – What goes into creating a scientifically well-trained crew member? || Kelsey_Young_Interview_Preview_print.jpg (1024x576) [89.8 KB] || Kelsey_Young_Interview_Preview.png (3840x2160) [11.8 MB] || Kelsey_Young_Interview_Preview.jpg (3840x2160) [2.7 MB] || Kelsey_Young_Interview_Preview_searchweb.png (320x180) [76.3 KB] || Kelsey_Young_Interview_Preview_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || Kelsey_Young_Interview_JETT5_720.mp4 (1280x720) [122.5 MB] || Kelsey_Young_Interview_JETT5_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [685.7 MB] || KelseyYoungInterviewJETT5.en_US.srt [14.0 KB] || KelseyYoungInterviewJETT5.en_US.vtt [13.4 KB] || Kelsey_Young_Interview_JETT5_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [4.2 GB] || Kelsey_Young_Interview_JETT5_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [32.5 GB] || ", "hits": 938 }, { "id": 14491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Hardware Highlights", "description": "This video, covering the second half of 2025, opens with a person entering NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s largest clean room, the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility. The room is a class 10,000 clean room with over one million cubic feet of space.The outside half of Roman, called OSD, contains the solar panels and protective layers. The Deployable Aperture Cover, which protects the mirrors during launch and then unfolds to help shield them from sunlight does a test deployment. During this test, lines connect to it and pull upward to negate Earth’s gravitational forces, which Roman will not experience in space. Then the Solar Array Sun Shield panels deploy. There are four panels that move. They fold against the spacecraft to fit inside the rocket fairing and then deploy in space to make a large flat plane that both collects light to generate electricity and helps keep the rest of Roman cool.In preparation for additional testing, technicians put a clean tent over OSD and transport it out of the clean room. They push it into the acoustic test chamber where a six-foot-tall horn projects up to 150-decibel sound at varying frequencies. The other tests are on two vibration tables that shake Roman along all three axes: up/down, left/right, and forward/backward. Engineers attach hundreds of sensors and run tests of increasing intensity. During and after each test, they carefully study the data to make sure that Roman is behaving as they anticipated.While these tests occur, Roman’s inside half, containing the mirrors, instruments and support equipment, move into Goddard’s largest thermal vacuum chamber, the SES (Space Environment Simulator). This 40-foot-tall chamber can simulate the vacuum of space and the wide temperature range that Roman will experience there: from -310° Fahrenheit (-190° C) to 302° Fahrenheit (150° C). The move to the chamber happens without a clean tent, so the entire path was cleaned, and all the workers dress in full clean-room garb to ensure that no dirt contaminates the sensitive parts of the spacecraft. Once the two layers of doors are sealed, Roman spends 72 days inside running through tests at various temperatures and with equipment turned on to ensure that it works at low temperature in a vacuum. A special array installed above the mirror projects light that engineers use to test the optics and sensors.After leaving the SES chamber and returning to the SSDIF, Roman’s primary and secondary mirrors are carefully cleaned and inspected. It is a balance to get the mirrors as clean as possible while not cleaning too aggressively and damaging the delicate surfaces. The mirrors are cleaned both horizontally with a gentle vacuum cleaner and vertically with brushes. After this cleaning, every inch is visually inspected and photographed to record the exact optical characteristics. This was the last time the primary mirror would be accessible.Finally, in late November, Roman’s two halves are joined together to form the complete observatory. The process takes the better part of a day. Two guide poles are installed on the inside half to help direct OSD down onto it. At various times, the clearances between the two halves are only a few inches. With the observatory complete, it begins preparing for another round of deployments and testing.Music credit: “Our Journey Begins,” Dan Thiessen [BMI], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_Roman_Hardware_Highlights_SummerFall2025_3.jpg (1280x720) [473.7 KB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_10mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [185.0 MB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_25mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [452.7 MB] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [880.2 MB] || RomanHHLate2025Captions.en_US.srt [588 bytes] || RomanHHLate2025Captions.en_US.vtt [570 bytes] || Roman_HH_Summer-Fall2025_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [2.5 GB] || ", "hits": 199 }, { "id": 14488, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14488/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-18T11:00:00-05:00", "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. 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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. || ", "hits": 35 }, { "id": 14215, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14215/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-09-29T12:15:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Views Aftermath of DART Impact", "description": "The DART mission will deploy a kinetic impactor to smack the small moon Dimorphos of the asteroid Didymos on the evening of Sept. 26. This is an on-orbit demonstration of asteroid deflection, a key test of NASA's kinetic impactor technology, designed to impact an asteroid to adjust its speed and path. This particular asteroid moon is NOT a threat to Earth, but is technology being explored to use for when we DO find a potentially hazardous asteroid.The Hubble Space Telescope captured these extraordinary views of the asteroid moon soon after the successful impact.For more information, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble. Music & Sound“The Beauty Beyond” by Jeremy Noel William Abbott [PRS] and Vasco [PRS] via Freshworx Music Limited [PRS] and Universal Production Music || ", "hits": 111 }, { "id": 14186, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14186/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-08-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy’s Solar Powered Journey Continues", "description": "Shortly after Lucy launched, one of its solar arrays failed to fully deploy, putting the mission at risk. Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Hypervelocity” by Sophy Olivia PurnellWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || Lucy_Solar_Array_Preview_print.jpg (1024x576) [312.0 KB] || Lucy_Solar_Array_Preview.png (3840x2160) [10.3 MB] || Lucy_Solar_Array_Preview.jpg (3840x2160) [1.3 MB] || Lucy_Solar_Array_Preview_searchweb.png (320x180) [101.6 KB] || Lucy_Solar_Array_Preview_thm.png (80x40) [6.6 KB] || 14186_Lucy_Solar_Array_Twitter.mp4 (1280x720) [24.6 MB] || 14186_Lucy_Solar_Array_Twitter.webm (1280x720) [12.3 MB] || 14186_Lucy_Solar_Array_Facebook.mp4 (1920x1080) [138.1 MB] || 14186_Lucy_Solar_Array_Captions.en_US.srt [2.4 KB] || 14186_Lucy_Solar_Array_Captions.en_US.vtt [2.3 KB] || 14186_Lucy_Solar_Array_YouTube.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.3 GB] || 14186_Lucy_Solar_Array_MASTER_V2.mov (3840x2160) [5.4 GB] || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 20366, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20366/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2022-08-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy Solar Array Anomaly: Animation", "description": "ANIMATION – Shortly after Lucy launched, one of its solar arrays failed to fully deploy, putting the mission at risk. || Lucy_SP_update_h264_1080.00495_print.jpg (1024x576) [272.9 KB] || Lucy_SP_update_h264_1080.00495_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.7 KB] || Lucy_SP_update_h264_1080.00495_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || Lucy_SP_update_h264_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [55.3 MB] || Lucy_SP_update_h264_1080.webm (1920x1080) [2.7 MB] || Lucy_SP_update.mov (3840x2160) [1.5 GB] || Lucy_SP_update_h264_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [29.5 MB] || Lucy_SP_Update_PNG (3840x2160) [64.0 KB] || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 14100, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14100/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-02-11T10:25:00-05:00", "title": "Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times", "description": "The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. The team's challenge was twofold: confirm that NIRCam was ready to collect light from celestial objects, and then identify starlight from the same star in each of the 18 primary mirror segments. The result is an image mosaic of 18 randomly organized dots of starlight, the product of Webb's unaligned mirror segments all reflecting light from the same star back at Webb's secondary mirror and into NIRCam's detectors.What looks like a simple image of blurry starlight now becomes the foundation to align and focus the telescope in order for Webb to deliver unprecedented views of the universe this summer. 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An introduction to the Webb telescope and it's mission. Female voiced version. 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Experts will discuss these technologies, and how they complement NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration plans, during a media teleconference Monday, June 10 at 1 p.m. EDT.Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live online at: https://www.nasa.gov/liveParticipants in the briefing will be:Jim Reuter, acting associate administrator of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, will discuss how technology drives exploration to the Moon and beyond.Jill Seubert, deputy principal investigator for the Deep Space Atomic Clock at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will discuss how to advance exploration in deep space with a miniaturized, ultra-precise, mercury-ion atomic clock that is orders of magnitude more stable than today’s best navigation clocks.Don Cornwell, director of the Advanced Communications and Navigation Division of NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program, will discuss how a more stable, space-based atomic clock could benefit future missions to the Moon and Mars.Christopher McLean, principal investigator for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) at Ball Aerospace, will discuss the demonstration of a green alternative to conventional chemical propulsion systems for next-generation launch vehicles and spacecraft. Joe Cassady, executive director for space at Aerojet Rocketdyne, will discuss the five thrusters and propulsion system aboard GPIM.Nicola Fox, director of the Heliophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, will discuss Space Environment Testbeds and the importance of protecting satellites from space radiation.Richard Doe, payload program manager for the Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment at SRI International, will discuss how a pair of NASA CubeSats will work with six satellites of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) COSMIC-2 mission to study disruptions of signals that pass through Earth’s upper atmosphere.To participate in the teleconference, media must contact Clare Skelly at 202-358-4273 or clare.a.skelly@nasa.gov by 10 a.m. June 10. Media questions may be submitted on Twitter during the teleconference using the hashtag #askNASA.NASA’s four missions will share a ride on the Falcon Heavy with about 20 satellites from government and research institutions that make up the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission. SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, which manages STP-2, are targeting 11:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, for launch from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Charged with returning astronauts to the Moon within five years, NASA’s Artemis lunar exploration plans are based on a two-phase approach: the first is focused on speed – landing astronauts on the Moon by 2024 – while the second will establish a sustained human presence on and around the Moon by 2028. We will use what we learn on the Moon to prepare to send astronauts to Mars. The technology missions on this launch will advance a variety of future exploration missions.For more information about NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration plans, visit:https://www.nasa.gov/moontomarsFor more information about the NASA technologies aboard this launch, visit:https://www.nasa.gov/spacexLearn more about NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/clock/index.htmlLearn more about NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/green/index.htmlSPACE TEST PROGRAM-2 || ", "hits": 64 }, { "id": 13083, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13083/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-04T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Post-Deployment", "description": "Digitized tape of the press conference from June 27, 1990 where Ed Weiler and others explain the Hubble Space Telescope's spherical aberration problem and its impact to the science instruments. The aberration wouldn't much affect UV or IR observations, but the Wide Field Planetary Camera would be largely affected since it used visible wavelengths. TRT: 30:00Participants: Douglas Broome, HST Program Manager; Jean Olivier, Deputy Project Manager; Dr. Edward Weiler, HST Program Scientist at NASA HQ; Dr. Lennard A. Fisk, Associate Administrator Space Science and Applications at NASA HQ; Dr. Peter Stockman, Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science InstituteLonger notes:Describing the initial spherical aberration problem with the Hubble Space Telescope’s primary mirror. Describe how they conclusively determined the nature of the problem. It affects one of their science objectives. Weiler: “We can still do important science.” UV capability and IR capability not impacted. Spatial resolution is about at ground-based resolution. Explains impacts to each of the instruments. HRS - will be able to do most of the science, just not in crowded fields, still excellent for planetary features, least impacted instrument FOS - UV science not impacted except on crowded fields, quasar absorption lines won’t be impacted because point sources, FOC - highest spatial resolution of the cameras, visible wavelengths will be ground-based resolution except maybe better for bright objects, HSP - won’t be able to do science with high signal to noise, but can do about half of proposed science esp in UV WFPC - probably no real science we can do with this because in visible Fine guidance sensors for astrometry - can do 100% of science we proposed, will be able to look at star’s wobble to find exoplanetsBiggest impact is loss of spatial resolution for WFPCInsurance policy - planned for maintenance program, are already building a second wide-field camera with a corrective mirror, think we can take out all the aberration and get back to original specification, 40% of science was going to be done with wide-field camera, developing NICMOS for near-IR capability that includes corrective opticsFor HRS and FOS, have STIS under development which would replace spectrographic capabilities Haven’t yet figured out how the problem occured; putting together a review boardDon’t know if the aberration is in the primary or secondary mirrorDidn’t test the two mirrors in combination because it would have been tremendously costly and difficult (hundreds of millions of dollars)Cuts off at endAudio missing from 11:10 - 11:20 || GSFC_19900627_HST_m001_thumbnail.jpg (720x484) [131.8 KB] || GSFC_19900627_HST_m001_thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [145.5 KB] || GSFC_19900627_HST_m001_thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [9.4 KB] || GSFC_19900627_HST_m001.mov (720x486) [12.5 GB] || GSFC_19900627_HST_m001.mp4 (720x484) [2.1 GB] || GSFC_19900627_HST_m001.webm [0 bytes] || ", "hits": 57 }, { "id": 40348, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/esddatafor-societal-benefits/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2018-04-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESD data for Societal Benefit", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 228 }, { "id": 12892, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12892/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-03-13T16:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Solar Array Deploy", "description": "Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center test TESS's solar panels. || TESS_KSC_Solar_Panel_Still.png (1920x1080) [2.8 MB] || TESS_KSC_Solar_Panel_Still_print.jpg (1024x576) [150.4 KB] || TESS_KSC_Solar_Panel_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [108.0 KB] || TESS_KSC_Solar_Panel_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || KSC-20180221-MH-SWW01_0001-TESS_Solar_Array_Deploy_H265-3184532~large.mp4 (1920x1080) [124.2 MB] || KSC-20180221-MH-SWW01_0001-TESS_Solar_Array_Deploy_H265-3184532~medium.mp4 (1280x720) [57.2 MB] || KSC-20180221-MH-SWW01_0001-TESS_Solar_Array_Deploy_H265-3184532~medium.webm (1280x720) [24.8 MB] || KSC-20180221-MH-SWW01_0001-TESS_Solar_Array_Deploy_H265-3184532~orig.mp4 (3840x2160) [354.9 MB] || KSC-20180221-MH-SWW01_0001-TESS_Solar_Array_Deploy_H265-3184532_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.8 GB] || ", "hits": 71 }, { "id": 4581, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4581/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2017-07-24T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Using Satellite and Ground-based Data to Develop Malaria Risk Maps", "description": "Malaria is a major problem in the Amazon where malaria mosquitoes tend to prefer wet, hot areas with more standing water. Seasonal occupational movement along rivers and in forested areas increases transmission and concentrates malaria in specific regions. The objective of Malaria Project, an ongoing study led by William Pan and Ben Zaitchik, is to develop a detection and early warning system for malaria risk in the Amazon. Using data from NASA satellites and a Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS), the scientists hope that their research can help health officials pinpoint where to deploy resources and what resources to deploy during a disease outbreak. By incorporating NASA data such as precipitation, soil moisture, air temperature, and humidity into their new system, scientists are better able to predict where malaria-spreading mosquitoes are breeding. These climate factors in conjunction with a population density and human movement model will help scientists better understand where and when people are at high risk for malaria. The malaria warning system will predict outbreaks and simulate response to help a country's health care system to more strategically determine where to deploy their resources. Visualizations focus on Peru, one of the central areas of malaria transmission in the Amazon. Four LDAS data sets -- precipitation, soil moisture, air temperature, and humidity are illustrated below. Combined with public health data, the animations show how these factors may affect the outbreak and evolvement of the disease. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 12627, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12627/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-05-31T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Engineers Test the Webb Telescope's Aft Deployable ISIM Radiator (ADIR)", "description": "B-roll of engineers deploying the Webb Telescope's Aft Deployable ISIM Radiator (ADIR). 4K and 1080p B-roll || ADIR_Deployment-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [174.4 KB] || ADIR_Deployment-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.2 KB] || ADIR_Deployment-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_web.png (320x180) [105.2 KB] || ADIR_Deployment-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_thm.png (80x40) [7.2 KB] || ADIR_Deployment-IMAGE_ONLY.mp4 (1920x1080) [288.1 KB] || ADIR_Deployment_Test_B-roll-1080p.mp4 (1920x1080) [103.2 MB] || ADIR_Deployment_Test_B-roll-ProRes_1080p.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || ADIR_Deployment_Test_B-roll-1080p.webm (1920x1080) [12.0 MB] || ADIR_Deployment_Test_B-roll-ProRes_4K.mov (3840x2160) [5.5 GB] || ", "hits": 30 }, { "id": 40325, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/tess/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2017-05-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS", "description": "The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite\n TESS is a NASA Explorer mission launched in 2018 to study exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. TESS will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. It will monitor more than 200,000 stars, looking for temporary dips in brightness caused by planets transiting across these stars. This first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey will identify a wide range of planets, from Earth-sized to gas giants. The mission will find exoplanet candidates for follow-up observation from missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, which will determine whether these candidates could support life. For more information, please visit the TESS website.", "hits": 485 }, { "id": 20266, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20266/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2017-04-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NICER Payload Animations", "description": "Animated video and stills of the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "id": 12548, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12548/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-03-21T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "James Webb Space Telescope Live Shots - March 30, 2017", "description": "B-roll and canned interviews are posted below. || OTIS_lift_to_Rollover_Fixture_IMAGE_ONLY.00030_print.jpg (1024x576) [175.4 KB] || OTIS_lift_to_Rollover_Fixture_IMAGE_ONLY.00030_print_print.jpg (1024x576) [175.0 KB] || OTIS_lift_to_Rollover_Fixture_IMAGE_ONLY.00030_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [114.3 KB] || OTIS_lift_to_Rollover_Fixture_IMAGE_ONLY.00030_print_web.png (320x180) [114.3 KB] || OTIS_lift_to_Rollover_Fixture_IMAGE_ONLY.00030_print_thm.png (80x40) [8.1 KB] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 12496, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12496/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2017-02-22T17:00:00-05:00", "title": "SnowEx Field Campaign: 4K B-roll From The P-3 Orion Aircraft", "description": "SnowEx is a NASA led multi-year research campaign to improve measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much liquid water is contained in that snow.Five aircraft with a total of ten different sensors will participate in the SnowEx campaign. From a base of operations at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, SnowEx will deploy a P-3 Orion aircraft operated by the Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. A King Air plane will fly out of Grand Junction, Colorado, while high-altitude NASA jets will fly from Johnson Space Center in Houston.The planes will carry passive and active microwave sensors that are good at measuring snow-water equivalent in dry snow, but are less optimal for measuring snow forests or light snow cover. The campaign will also deploy an airborne laser instrument to measure snow depth, and airborne sensors to measure surface temperature and reflected light from snow.Data acquired from the SnowEx campaign will be stored at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, and will be available to anyone to order at no cost, as is the case with all NASA data.For more information: https://www.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 12489, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12489/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2017-02-14T02:00:00-05:00", "title": "SnowEx Field Campaign: B-roll From The P-3 Orion Aircraft", "description": "SnowEx is a NASA led multi-year research campaign to improve measurements of how much snow is on the ground at any given time and how much liquid water is contained in that snow.Five aircraft with a total of ten different sensors will participate in the SnowEx campaign. From a base of operations at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, SnowEx will deploy a P-3 Orion aircraft operated by the Scientific Development Squadron ONE (VXS-1), based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. A King Air plane will fly out of Grand Junction, Colorado, while high-altitude NASA jets will fly from Johnson Space Center in Houston. The planes will carry passive and active microwave sensors that are good at measuring snow-water equivalent in dry snow, but are less optimal for measuring snow forests or light snow cover. The campaign will also deploy an airborne laser instrument to measure snow depth, and airborne sensors to measure surface temperature and reflected light from snow.Data acquired from the SnowEx campaign will be stored at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, and will be available to anyone to order at no cost, as is the case with all NASA data.For more information: https://www.nasa.gov/earthexpeditions || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 12459, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12459/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-12-13T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "Webb Telescope Launch and Deploy (12-minute)", "description": "12-minute produced video describing the James Webb Space Telescope deploy sequence, trajectory and operating orbit. || Webb_Animation_IMAGE_ONLY.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [100.7 KB] || Webb_Animation_IMAGE_ONLY.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [68.6 KB] || Webb_Animation_IMAGE_ONLY.00001_web.png (320x180) [68.6 KB] || Webb_Animation_IMAGE_ONLY.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.7 KB] || 1511201_JWST_L-D_Apvd_Final_G.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || 1511201_JWST_L-D_Apvd_Final_G.mov (1920x1080) [11.7 GB] || 1511201_JWST_L-D_Apvd_Final_G.webm (1920x1080) [97.8 MB] || 1511201_JWST_L-D_Apvd_Final_G-cc-srt.en_US.srt [13.0 KB] || 1511201_JWST_L-D_Apvd_Final_G-cc-srt.en_US.vtt [13.0 KB] || ", "hits": 155 }, { "id": 12422, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12422/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Webb Telescope Narrated Deployment Sequence (4 min.)", "description": "A narration of the WEbb Telescope's deployment sequence. || Webb_Narated_Deployment-h264.00746_print.jpg (1024x576) [129.8 KB] || Webb_Narated_Deployment-h264.00746_searchweb.png (320x180) [80.8 KB] || Webb_Narated_Deployment-h264.00746_web.png (320x180) [80.8 KB] || Webb_Narated_Deployment-h264.00746_thm.png (80x40) [5.8 KB] || Webb_Narated_Deployment-ProRes.mov (1920x1080) [4.0 GB] || Webb_Narated_Deployment-h264.mp4 (1920x1080) [312.7 MB] || Webb_Narated_Deployment-ProRes.webm (1920x1080) [33.5 MB] || Webb_Narated_Deployment-Caption.en_US.srt [4.9 KB] || Webb_Narated_Deployment-Caption.en_US.vtt [4.9 KB] || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 12411, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12411/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-11-07T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "NASA to Launch New Small Satellite Missions to do Real Science", "description": "NASA is about to launch six new next-generation Earth-observing small satellites — some as small as a loaf of bread. These tiny spacecraft are helping to foster creative and cost-effective approaches to studying our planet. This page contains a short overview video as well as a series of conceptual animations of small sats being launched, deployed, in orbit over the Earth collecting data, and in comparison in size to both a person and a traditional large satellite. Note: While these animations are based on real satellite models, they are intended to be generic and not perfectly descriptive of any particular small sat mission. For more on NASA’s small satellite program: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-hold-media-call-on-new-small-satellite-missions-to-study-earth. || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 20253, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20253/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-08-17T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Launch and Deployment Animations", "description": "OSIRIS-REx begins its journey to near-Earth asteroid Bennu from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. In addition to the launch vehicle's liquid-fueled main engine, its 411 configuration includes a strap-on solid rocket booster and a Centaur upper stage. When the launch window opens on the evening of September 8, 2016, the Atlas V will lift OSIRIS-REx above the Florida coastline and propel it eastward over the night side of Earth. Fifty-nine minutes later, OSIRIS-REx will separate from the Centaur upper stage, point its solar arrays at the rising sun, and embark on its nearly two-year cruise to Bennu. || ", "hits": 45 }, { "id": 20255, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20255/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-08-17T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Mission Design: Sample Acquisition Campaign", "description": "After nine months in orbit around asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx will begin the process of maneuvering closer to the surface in preparation of the sample collection event. Once the sample site has been selected, OSIRIS-REx will break from its polar orbit to practice three flyovers of the site at increasing proximities, eventually matching Bennu's speed and rotation. The narrow-angle PolyCam will image the sample site at sub-centimeter resolution during these close passes.When OSIRIS-REx is ready, it will slowly descend to Bennu's surface at a few centimeters per second. Its outstretched arm will touch down and blow high-pressure nitrogen gas into Bennu's soil. This will force loose dust, dirt, and rocks upward into the TAGSAM head, trapping the material inside. OSIRIS-REx will then weigh and stow the captured sample for return to Earth in 2023. || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 12210, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12210/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-14T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Secondary Mirror Deploy Timelapse - March 3, 2016", "description": "Time lapse movie of engineers deploying Webb Telescope's Secondary Mirror Support Structure || SMA_deploy-timelaspe-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [205.6 KB] || SMA_deploy-timelaspe-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [121.0 KB] || SMA_deploy-timelaspe-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_web.png (320x180) [121.0 KB] || SMA_deploy-timelaspe-IMAGE_ONLY.00001_thm.png (80x40) [7.7 KB] || SMA_deploy-timelaspe-h264.mov (1280x720) [19.7 MB] || SMA_deploy-timelaspe-h264.webm (1280x720) [1.8 MB] || SMA_deploy-timelaspe.mov (1920x1080) [343.8 MB] || SMA_deploy.hwshow [78 bytes] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 12529, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12529/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-04-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "NICER Range of Motion Time-lapse", "description": "The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) Deploy and Pointing System (DAPS) is tested at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.The DAPS is only capable of moving in the weightless environment on orbit, not in Earth’s gravity on the ground. DAPS therefore was tested on a platform structure with wheels and bearings.The test includes motions responsible for tracking and slewing between neutron star targets in the sky with NICER's X-ray Timing Instrument, which is stationary during this test because it is too heavy to be moved by the DAPS motors in Earth's gravity. || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 12455, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12455/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-02-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "NICER Electromagnetic Testing Time-lapse Videos", "description": "The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload undergoes electromagnetic testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.Electromagnetic testing serves to verify that NICER’s electrical subsystems do not interfere with each other or with International Space Station electrical systems through, for example, conducted or transmitted emissions. This test also verifies that NICER is not susceptible to malfunction due to the electromagnetic environment of the space station.Two time-lapse videos show the NICER payload deploy during electromagnetic testing and return to its stowed configuration following the tests. || ", "hits": 63 }, { "id": 11767, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11767/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2016-01-22T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "JWST's Pathfinder Backplane Deployment Time Lapse", "description": "This time-lapse video by Northrop Grumman shows part of the pathfinder (test) backplane. Attached to this center section of the backplane are the secondary mirror booms. The telescope's secondary mirror will sit at the end of these booms. Because the telescope is folded for launch, the booms must deploy afterwards. This video shows one of the tests of the deployment of the booms. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 40110, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/astro-galaxy/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Galaxy Listing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 121 }, { "id": 40111, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/astro-star/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Astrophysics Star Listing", "description": "No description available.", "hits": 171 }, { "id": 40254, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/hyperwall-heliophysics/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-09-04T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hyperwall Heliophysics", "description": "A topically-organized Gallery of Hyperwall-ready heliophysics content.", "hits": 122 }, { "id": 11886, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11886/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-06-03T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "JWST Arm Over-Deploy at GSFC", "description": "JWST Arm-Over Deploy || Screen_Shot_2015-06-03_at_10.40.24_AM.png (1409x752) [1.2 MB] || Screen_Shot_2015-06-03_at_10.40.24_AM_print.jpg (1024x546) [126.5 KB] || Screen_Shot_2015-06-03_at_10.40.24_AM_searchweb.png (320x180) [97.3 KB] || Screen_Shot_2015-06-03_at_10.40.24_AM_web.png (320x170) [92.9 KB] || Screen_Shot_2015-06-03_at_10.40.24_AM_thm.png (80x40) [10.4 KB] || JWST_Arm_Over-Deploy_ProRes_appletv.m4v (960x540) [88.4 MB] || JWST_Arm_Over-Deploy_ProRes_prores.mov (1280x720) [3.1 GB] || JWST_Arm_Over-Deploy_ProRes_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [110.0 MB] || JWST_Arm_Over-Deploy_ProRes_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [336.3 MB] || JWST_Arm_Over-Deploy_ProRes_youtube_hq.webm (1280x720) [23.1 MB] || JWST_Arm_Over-Deploy_ProRes_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [34.5 MB] || JWST_Arm_Over-Deploy_ProRes_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [18.3 MB] || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 11856, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11856/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2015-04-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble's 25th Anniversary Resource B-Roll Collection", "description": "Best of Hubble Broll includes launch and deploy, and Extravehicular Activity. || Screen_Shot_2015-04-16_at_5.33.09_PM.png (1616x903) [1.6 MB] || Screen_Shot_2015-04-16_at_5.33.09_PM_print.jpg (1024x572) [127.2 KB] || Screen_Shot_2015-04-16_at_5.33.09_PM_web.jpg (319x178) [19.9 KB] || Screen_Shot_2015-04-16_at_5.33.09_PM_searchweb.png (320x180) [87.4 KB] || Screen_Shot_2015-04-16_at_5.33.09_PM_web.png (320x178) [86.5 KB] || Screen_Shot_2015-04-16_at_5.33.09_PM_thm.png (80x40) [8.2 KB] || Best_of_Hubble_appletv.m4v (960x540) [322.7 MB] || Best_of_Hubble_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [1.0 GB] || Best_of_Hubble_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [395.9 MB] || Best_of_Hubble_prores.mov (1280x720) [11.6 GB] || Best_of_Hubble_youtube_hq.webm (1280x720) [84.8 MB] || Best_of_Hubble_720x480.wmv (720x480) [366.8 MB] || Best_of_Hubble_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [126.5 MB] || Best_of_Hubble.mov (640x360) [322.1 MB] || Best_of_Hubble_nasaportal.mov (640x360) [322.1 MB] || Best_of_Hubble_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [67.5 MB] || ", "hits": 85 }, { "id": 11769, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11769/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-02-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "JWST's Sunshield Full Deploy Test Time Lapse", "description": "A major test of the sunshield for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was conducted in July 2014 by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, Calif. For the first time, the five sunshield test layers were unfolded and separated; unveiling important insights for the engineers and technicians as to how the deployment will take place when the telescope launches into space.The sunshield will allow the telescope to cool down to a temperature below 50 Kelvin (equal to -370 degree F, or -223 degree C) by passively radiating its heat into space. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 11741, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11741/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2015-01-28T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Live Shot Page 1.29.15", "description": "NASA scientists talk about the launch of the Soil Moisture Active Passive - or SMAP - satellite scheduled to launch on Jan 29. SMAP will take stock of the water hidden just beneath your feet, in the topsoil. Knowing how much water is in the soil, and whether it is frozen or thawed, has profound applications for society, from better forecasting of natural disasters like floods and droughts to helping prevent food shortages.How SMAP's radiometer works.How SMAP will help weather forecasts.More about SMAP.NASA TV's video file. || ", "hits": 41 }, { "id": 30577, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30577/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2015-01-15T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "SMAP Launch and Deploy", "description": "A movie showing launch, deploy and scan pattern. || SMAP_launch_deploy_scan_still_print.jpg (1024x576) [88.7 KB] || SMAP_launch_deploy_scan_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [60.5 KB] || SMAP_launch_deploy_scan_still_web.png (320x180) [60.5 KB] || SMAP_launch_deploy_scan_still_thm.png (80x40) [10.7 KB] || SMAP_launch_deploy_scan_720p_59.97.mp4 (1280x720) [57.9 MB] || SMAP_launch_deploy_scan_still.tif (1280x720) [508.6 KB] || SMAP_launch_deploy_scan_720p_59.97.webm (1280x720) [24.2 MB] || SMAP_launch_deploy_scan_720p_59.97.hwshow [228 bytes] || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 11728, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11728/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2015-01-09T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "DSCOVR B-Roll", "description": "B-Roll of DSCOVR solar panel deploy test at Goddard Space Flight Center || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_youtube_hq_print.jpg (1024x576) [163.7 KB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_youtube_hq00027_print.jpg (1024x576) [136.8 KB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_youtube_hq_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.1 KB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_youtube_hq_web.png (320x180) [100.1 KB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [7.1 KB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [61.0 MB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_prores.mov (1280x720) [1.7 GB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_appletv.m4v (960x540) [49.9 MB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [128.4 MB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_prores.webmhd.webm (1280x720) [25.6 MB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_nasaportal.mov (640x360) [50.2 MB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [19.5 MB] || DSCOVR-Cleanroom-MASTER_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [10.4 MB] || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 11702, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11702/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "MMS Launch and Deploy - Narrated", "description": "In March of 2015, an unprecedented NASA mission will launch to study a process so mysterious that no one has ever directly measured it in action. To create the first-ever 3-dimensional maps of this process, a process called magnetic reconnection, which occurs all over the universe, the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission uses four separate spacecraft equipped with ultra high speed instruments. Launching four satellites into space simultaneously is a complicated process. In addition, each spacecraft has six booms that will unfold and extend in space once in orbit. A launch and deployment with so many moving parts must be meticulously planned. Watch the video to get a sneak preview of how MMS will make this journey: The four spacecraft are housed in a single rocket on their trip into space. One by one, each ejects out, before moving into a giant pyramid-shaped configuration. Next each spacecraft deploys its six booms. Once in orbit, MMS will fly through regions near Earth where this little-understood process of magnetic reconnection occurs. Magnetic reconnection happens in thin layers just miles thick, but can tap into enough power at times to create gigantic explosions many times the size of Earth. Reconnection happens when magnetic field lines explosively realign and release massive bursts of energy, while hurling particles out at nearly the speed of light in all directions. Magnetic reconnection powers eruptions on the sun and – closer to home – triggers the flow of material and energy from interplanetary space into near-Earth space. The MMS orbit will carry the four spacecraft through reconnection regions near Earth, using this nearby natural laboratory to better understand how reconnection occurs everywhere in space. For more information about MMS, visit: www.nasa.gov/mms || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 10203, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10203/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Webb's Secondary Mirror Deployment Test Time Lapse", "description": "Time lapse of engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center testing the deployment of Webb Telescope's Secondary Mirror and Support Structure. || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-h264_print.jpg (1024x576) [191.9 KB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-h264_ipad_poster_frame.jpg (1024x576) [191.9 KB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-h26400452_print.jpg (1024x576) [184.8 KB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-h264_searchweb.png (320x180) [117.9 KB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-h264_web.png (320x180) [117.9 KB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-h264_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-1080p-ProRes.mov (1920x1080) [1.5 GB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-h264.mov (1280x720) [79.8 MB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-1080p-ProRes_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [49.6 MB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-1080p-ProRes_appletv.m4v (960x540) [40.8 MB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-1080p-ProRes_youtube_hquality.mov (1920x1080) [230.1 MB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-1080p-ProRes_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [13.5 MB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-1080p-ProRes_nasaportal.mov (640x360) [41.0 MB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-1080p-ProRes_ipod_lg-itunes_version.m4v (640x360) [15.3 MB] || Secondary_Mirror_Deploy_Timelapse-1080p-ProRes_ipod_sm.mp4 (320x240) [6.9 MB] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 20212, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20212/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2014-09-18T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "MAVEN Launch and Deployment Animations", "description": "This animation follows the MAVEN spacecraft through launch on an Atlas V rocket from KSC through it's solar panel deployments and ending with MAVEN begining it's journey to MARS. || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 20213, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20213/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2014-09-18T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "MAVEN Mars Orbital Insertion and Instrument Deploys", "description": "These animations depict MAVEN's arrival at Mars on September 21, 2014, and the ensuing science instrument deployments. 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By studying reconnection in this local, natural laboratory, MMS helps us understand reconnection elsewhere — such as in the atmosphere of the Sun and other stars, in the vicinity of black holes and neutron stars, and at the boundary between our solar system's heliosphere and interstellar space — where it’s harder to study.\n\nMMS launched on March 12, 2015, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mms/", "hits": 142 }, { "id": 11523, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11523/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-04-15T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Sunshield J2 Side Deployment Test Time Lapse", "description": "Engineers at Northrop Grumman deploy one side of a 5-layer sunshield engineering test article as a proof of concept test for the Webb Telescope's sunshield. || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 20205, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20205/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2014-02-07T15:21:00-05:00", "title": "LDCM Deploy and Beauty Pass", "description": "A shot of LDCM over Earth || baab130000077_print.jpg (1024x576) [97.8 KB] || baab1300_web.png (320x180) [79.3 KB] || baab1300_thm.png (80x40) [6.4 KB] || LDCM-Beauty (1280x720) [16.0 KB] || LDCM-Beauty1-final-END.mov (1280x720) [204.9 MB] || LDCM-Beauty1-final-END.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.7 MB] || ", "hits": 16 }, { "id": 40148, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/irisnasas-new-eyeonthe-sun/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2013-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS – Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph", "description": "The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA Earth-orbiting observatory focused on a poorly understood area of the Sun's lower atmosphere, the chromosphere. 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Understanding how the energy travels through this region – energy that helps heat the upper layer of the atmosphere, the corona, to temperatures of 1,000,000 kelvins, some thousand times hotter than the sun’s surface itself – is the goal of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, scheduled to launch on June 26, 2013 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Scientists wish to understand the interface region in exquisite detail, since energy flowing through this region has an effect on so many aspects of near-Earth space. For one thing, despite the intense amount of energy deposited into the interface region, only a fraction leaksthrough, but this fraction drives the solar wind, the constant stream of particles that flows out to fill the entire solar system. The interface region is also the source of most of the sun's ultraviolet emission, which impacts both the near-Earth space environment and Earth's climate. IRIS's capabilities are uniquely tailored to unravel the interface region by providing both high-resolution images and a kind of data known as spectra, which can see many wavelengths at once. For its high-resolution images, IRIS will capture data on about one percent of the sun at a time. While these are relatively small snapshots, IRIS will be able to see very fine features, as small as 150 miles across. || ", "hits": 61 }, { "id": 11200, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11200/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-30T20:48:00-05:00", "title": "TDRS-K Video File", "description": "NASA is preparing to launch the first in a series of three third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS-K. This latest addition to the fleet of seven will augment a space communications network that provides the critical path for high data-rate communication to the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope, past shuttle missions and a host of other spacecraft. It has been 10 years since NASA last launched a TDRS. This launch is the beginning of a welcome replenishment to the space network, which has served numerous national and international space missions since 1983. || ", "hits": 81 }, { "id": 11152, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11152/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-01-10T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "400 Degrees Below", "description": "When the James Webb Space Telescope reaches its orbit about 1 million miles from Earth, it will operate at temperatures of almost 400 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. This frigid condition was chosen for a specific purpose: to optimize Webb's infrared sensitivity to see ancient stars and galaxies. Infrared can be thought of like heat radiation; the sun, Earth and stars all give off infrared light. In order to see faint and distant objects, Webb will need to stay very cold and deploy a huge sunshield to prevent stray infrared light from reaching its sensitive mirrors. Precise engineering is required to build multiple instruments that can operate in extreme cold and to construct a large spacecraft capable of unfolding in space. Watch the videos to see how Webb will deploy in space and to see a layer of its protective sunshield being spread out for testing. || ", "hits": 38 }, { "id": 11142, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11142/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-12-06T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "In The Beginning", "description": "The most powerful space telescope ever built will peer 13 billion light years into the past, observing the remnant light that holds the history of the universe. Called the James Webb Space Telescope, its highly sensitive mirrors will help capture the first luminous glow of the Big Bang's aftermath, the creation and evolution of galaxies and the formation of stars and planets. Such feats will require engineering and space hardware like nothing before it. The length of a Boeing 737, the Webb telescope will fold into a school bus-sized piece of origami in order to fit into a rocket for launch. Once in orbit 1 million miles from Earth, the Webb telescope will unfold like a Transformer and deploy a layered, reflective sun shield the size of a tennis court. Watch the video to learn more about this next-generation space observatory. || ", "hits": 50 }, { "id": 11129, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11129/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM Launch and Deploy Animation", "description": "This version contains music and sound effects. || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_youtube_hq.00252_print.jpg (1024x576) [56.9 KB] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_youtube_hq_web.png (320x180) [155.8 KB] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_youtube_hq_thm.png (80x40) [14.8 KB] || 1280x720_16x9_60p (1280x720) [0 Item(s)] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_1280x720.wmv (1280x720) [62.8 MB] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_appletv.m4v (960x540) [57.0 MB] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_youtube_hq.mov (1280x720) [73.3 MB] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_720x480.webmhd.webm (960x540) [29.1 MB] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012.mov (640x360) [53.6 MB] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_720x480.wmv (720x480) [52.8 MB] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_ipod_lg.m4v (640x360) [23.1 MB] || GSFC_20121101_GPM_m11129_Launch.en_US.vtt [59 bytes] || GPM_Launch_Oct2012_prores.mov (1280x720) [2.0 GB] || ", "hits": 15 }, { "id": 11089, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11089/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-10-18T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS Launch, Deploy and Beauty Passes", "description": "Understanding the interface between the photosphere and corona remains a fundamental challenge in solar and heliospheric science. The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission opens a window of discovery into this crucial region by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the chromosphere and transition region into the corona using spectrometry and imaging. IRIS is designed to provide significant new information to increase our understanding of energy transport into the corona and solar wind and provide an archetype for all stellar atmospheres. The unique instrument capabilities, coupled with state of the art 3-D modeling, will fill a large gap in our knowledge of this dynamic region of the solar atmosphere. The mission will extend the scientific output of existing heliophysics spacecraft that follow the effects of energy release processes from the sun to Earth.IRIS will provide key insights into all these processes, and thereby advance our understanding of the solar drivers of space weather from the corona to the far heliosphere, by combining high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for the entire chromosphere and adjacent regions. IRIS will resolve in space, time, and wavelength the dynamic geometry from the chromosphere to the low-temperature corona to shed much-needed light on the physics of this magnetic interface region. || ", "hits": 29 }, { "id": 11033, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11033/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-07-12T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM Hyperwall IGARSS Presentation", "description": "A presentation on the Global Precipitation Measurement mission for the IGARSS Conference. || GPM Introduction || gpm_logo.00177_print.jpg (1024x576) [62.2 KB] || gpm_logo_web.png (320x180) [182.8 KB] || gpm_logo_thm.png (80x40) [16.7 KB] || gpm_logo.mov (1280x720) [7.9 MB] || gpm_logo.webmhd.webm (960x540) [2.2 MB] || ", "hits": 14 }, { "id": 10937, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10937/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-03-16T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "RBSP Animation", "description": "Animations of the Radiation Belt Storm Probe spacecraft. || ", "hits": 74 }, { "id": 10723, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10723/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-02-14T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Base Camp: West Antarctica", "description": "Stretching off the edge of the continent, 1,400 miles west of Antarctica's McMurdo Station, is Pine Island Glacier (PIG)—a massive river of ice 190 miles wide and 30 miles long that satellite measurements reveal is rapidly shrinking in size. Much of the glacier rests on a bed below sea level and global sea levels could increase by three feet or more if the glacier melted completely. The rate of ice loss on the glacier has increased rapidly in recent years, and scientists believe shifting warm water rising from the adjacent deep ocean and circulating in the surrounding Amundsen Sea are rapidly melting the underside of the glacier's floating edge—the ice shelf. To be certain requires measurements taken beneath this floating ice. That's where NASA polar scientist Robert Bindschadler comes in. In 2008, Bindschadler led an expedition to the remote ice shelf by plane, but the dangers of landing on the crevassed surface prevented his team from collecting data. This fall Bindschadler will return via helicopter. The plan on arrival: drill 1,640 feet below the surface and deploy a specially designed instrument that will start continuous measurements of the shifting ocean waters beneath the glacier. || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 10603, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10603/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2010-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Arctic 2010 Video File - April 23, 2010", "description": "NASA's Operation IceBridge enters the second phase of the Arctic 2010 campaign in Greenland. Next week, NASA's DC-8 aircraft will return from Thule Air Base in Greenland to Dryden Flight Research Center in California. The fully equipped P-3B airplane will deploy from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland for the remainder of the mission. The mission is measuring the Arctic ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 10439, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10439/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-05-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Senator Mikulski Celebrates Hubble Success", "description": "The Hubble Space Telescope has been with us for nearly two decades. In that time, its breathtaking images have captured peoples imaginations and its groundbreaking science has revealed some of the many secrets of our universe.After five spacewalks by the STS-125 mission to repair Hubble, commander Scott \"Scooter\" Altman confirmed a successful release of the Hubble telescope from the Space Shuttle Atlantis.Shortly after the deploy, Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski visited controllers in Goddard's Space Telescope Operations Control Center. Mikulski, who praised the Hubble team for their hard work and dedication during this mission.For more info: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2009/hubble_deploy.html || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 10382, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10382/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory Solar Array Deployment", "description": "The Glory spacecraft uses Orbital Sciences Corporation Space Systems Group's LEOStar-1 bus design, with deployable, four-panel solar arrays. This conceptual animation reveals Glory's unique solar array deployment sequence. || ", "hits": 36 }, { "id": 10379, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10379/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory Launch Sequence", "description": "Glory will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base onboard a Taurus XL launch vehicle. The Taurus launch service is provided by Orbital Sciences Corporation Launch Systems Group, under contract to the NASA Kennedy Space Center. The Taurus XL will place Glory into a circular, Sun-synchronous injection orbit with an altitude of 640 kilometers and an inclination of 97.9 degrees. || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 10337, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10337/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-11-27T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "JWST Deployment and Beauty Animations", "description": "Animations of the James Webb Space Telescope including spacecraft deploy and on orbit animations. || ", "hits": 62 }, { "id": 10235, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10235/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 Hubble Deploy", "description": "Animation showing the release of the Hubble Space telescope after the completion of Servicing Mission 4. || ", "hits": 87 }, { "id": 10334, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10334/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "LRO/LCROSS Launch, Deploy, and Mission Animation", "description": "The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter or LRO will give scientists more information about the structure of the Moon's interior; the types of rock found there, events that shaped it, and the conditions that exist at the surface. LRO will spend one year in a polar orbit collecting this information. LRO's instrument suite will provide the highest resolution and the most comprehensive data set and the most detailed maps ever returned from the moon. It will carry an additional payload called LCROSS. The identification of water is very important to the future of human activities on the Moon. LCROSS will excavate the permanently dark floor of one of the Moon's polar craters with two heavy impactors to test the theory that ancient ice lies buried there. The impact will eject material from the crater's surface to create a plume that specialized instruments will be able to analyze for the presence of water (ice and vapor), hydrocarbons and hydrated material. || ", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 10199, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10199/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "SDO Solar Array and High Gain Antenna Test Deploy", "description": "Goddard engineers attached the solar array panels and high gain antennas to the Solar Dynamics Observatory. During launch the arrays and antennas are tucked in against the spacecraft and must be opened up for use on orbit. This video show the engineers testing that deployment. The arrays and antennas are held against the spacecraft by explosive bolts that are exploded to allow them to open. The same type of explosives will deploy the solar arrays in space. The solar arrays will collect energy from the Sun to power the spacecraft. SDO will collect so much data on the sun that it could not be stored on the spacecraft and therefore must be sent to the ground quickly. The high gain antennas will transmit 1.5 terabytes of data each day to a ground station at White Sands, NM. That's like watching 380 movies each day! || ", "hits": 20 }, { "id": 10189, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10189/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-03-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Stepping Stones to SDO", "description": "NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is currently in the 'integration and test' phase of mission development, (i.e. observatory is now complete with the spacecraft bus, propulsion module and instruments), the ground system is being completed and flight software is being tested. Critical systems testing has already begun and environmental testing of he observatory will be conducted in the near future as they continue towards a launch readiness date of December 1, 2008. This series of short videos shows the SDO spacecraft being assembled and tested with narration by the engineers doing the work. It will be updated until SDO is ready for launch.For more information on SDO, visit the web site http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov || ", "hits": 17 }, { "id": 10172, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10172/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2007-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLAST Promo Video", "description": "NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a powerful space observatory that will open a wide window on the universe. Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of light and the gamma-ray sky is spectacularly different from the one we perceive with our own eyes. With a huge leap in all key capabilities, GLAST data will enable scientists to answer persistent questions across a broad range of topics, including supermassive black-hole systems, pulsars, the origina of cosmic rays, and searches for signals new physics. NASA's GLAST mission is an astrophysics and particle physics partnership, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, along with important contributions from academic institutions and partners in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the U.S. || ", "hits": 22 }, { "id": 20106, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20106/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-07-18T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "AIM Spacecraft Deployment", "description": "The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission will provide the first detailed exploration of the Earth's unique and elusive noctilucent or night shining clouds that are found literally on the 'edge of space'. Located near the top of the Earth's mesosphere (the region just above the stratosphere), very little is known about how these polar mesospheric clouds form or why they vary. They are being seen at lower latitudes than ever before and have been growing brighter and more frequent, leading some scientists to suggest that this recent increase may be the direct result of human-induced climate change. Over the course of it's two-year mission AIM will shed light on how noctilucent clouds form and what processes are causing these mysterious changes in their behavior. || ", "hits": 32 }, { "id": 20096, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20096/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-01-11T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "THEMIS Launch and Deployment", "description": "THEMIS (Time History of Events and Microscale Interactions durind Substorms) answers fundamental outstanding questions regarding the magnetospheric substorm instability, a dominant mechanism of transport and explosive release of solar wind energy within Geospace. THEMIS will elucidate which magnetotail process is responsible for substorm onset at the region where substorm auroras map (~10Re): (i) a local disruption of the plasma sheet current or (ii) that current's interaction with the rapid influx of plasma emanating from lobe flux annihilation at ~25Re. Correlative observations from long-baseline (2-25 Re) probe conjunctions, will delineate the causal relationship and macroscale interaction between the substorm components. THEMIS's five identical probes measure particles and fields on orbits which optimize tail-aligned conjunctions over North America. || ", "hits": 60 }, { "id": 40116, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/jwst/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2000-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "James Webb Space Telescope", "description": "The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope. The observatory launched into space on an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana on December 25, 2021. After launch, the observatory was successfully unfolded and is being readied for science. \n\nWebb will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Webb will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System. Webb's instruments are designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with some capability in the visible range.\n\nWebb has a large primary mirror, 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter and a sunshield the size of a tennis court. Both the mirror and sunshade are too large to fit onto the Ariane 5 rocket fully open, so both were folded which meant they needed to be unfolded in space. \n\nWebb is currently in its operational orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth at a location known as Lagrange Point 2 (L2).\n\nThe James Webb Space Telescope was named after the NASA Administrator who crafted the Apollo program, and who was a staunch supporter of space science.", "hits": 864 } ] }