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Its body is made of a cylindrical telescope attached to a square base. Inside the telescope is the reflection of an orange star. A line of three solar panels extends from the right side of the spacecraft at a 45-degree angle. On the right side of the background is a large planet streaked with purple, pink, and white. To the left of the planet are two stars. One is small, yellow, and very close to the planet. The other is white and is almost totally eclipsed by the spacecraft. || Pandora_Graphic_No_Text.jpg (6000x3000) [3.5 MB] || Pandora_Graphic_No_Text.png (6000x3000) [22.7 MB] || ", "hits": 446 }, { "id": 14921, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14921/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-11-21T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "IMAP Testing and Integration at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center", "description": "NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft arrived May 10, 2025, for processing at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will study how the Sun shapes the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble around our solar system. A semitrailer transported the spacecraft from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, after completing thermal vacuum testing, which simulates the harsh conditions of space, at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility. Astrotech provides the facility and technicians to prepare the spacecraft for launch, including fueling and encapsulation. The IMAP spacecraft launched Sept. 24, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy. || ", "hits": 158 }, { "id": 14890, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14890/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-08-26T11:05:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Deployment Test", "description": "Technicians recently tested two major deployments for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: the Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC) and the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS). The DAC will protect Roman’s instruments before launch, then swing open once the telescope is in space. To simulate weightlessness, engineers used a gravity offload system precisely counterbalanced to reduce drag during deployment. The SASS unfurled in true flight-like fashion, with its solar panels swinging into place under powerful spring tension. Each release was marked by the sharp pop of a non-explosive actuator. Both deployments were successful, bringing Roman one step closer to its mission to study dark energy, exoplanets, and the distant universe. To learn more, check out the link in our Roman highlight.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Sophia Roberts: Videographer / ProducerScott Weissinger: Videographer / ProducerPaul Morris: EditorMusic Credit:“History in Motion” by Fred Dubois [SACEM], Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Publishing Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music. || ", "hits": 84 }, { "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": 72 }, { "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": 59 }, { "id": 14852, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14852/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-06-11T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope's Outer Shell Moves to the Thermal Vacuum Chamber", "description": "The outer half of NASA’s nearly complete Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just passed a lengthy test to ensure it will function properly in the space environment. This video shows the structure, which consists of the Outer Barrel Assembly, Solar Array Sun Shield, and Deployable Aperture Cover (collectively called OSD), entering the Space Environment Simulator. Technicians removed air from this thermal vacuum chamber and exposed the structure to a wide range of temperatures. || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 14836, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14836/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2025-05-07T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Systems Infographic", "description": "This infographic shows the two major subsystems that make up NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The subsystems are each undergoing testing prior to being joined together this fall. || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_print.jpg (1024x576) [160.5 KB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_16bit.png (3840x2160) [30.7 MB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_8bit.png (3840x2160) [8.2 MB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final.jpg (3840x2160) [1.2 MB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.8 KB] || Roman_Systems_Infographic_V1_Final_thm.png [6.4 KB] || ", "hits": 103 }, { "id": 14830, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14830/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-04-23T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Images", "description": "The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a SmallSat mission at Lagrange Point 1 (L1) where it will use an advanced ultraviolet imager to monitor Earth’s exosphere — the outermost layer of the atmosphere — and the exosphere’s response to solar-driven space weather. Carruthers is poised to become the first SmallSat to operate at L1 and the first to deliver continuous exospheric observations from this vantage point.Led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the mission is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2025 as a rideshare component of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which will explore the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble that is inflated by the solar wind and surrounds the Sun and planets. The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is a vital addition to NASA’s fleet of heliophysics satellites. NASA Heliophysics Division missions study a vast, interconnected system from the Sun to the space surrounding Earth and other planets to the farthest limits of the Sun’s constantly flowing streams of solar wind. || ", "hits": 122 }, { "id": 14788, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14788/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-03-03T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Vertical Video", "description": "This page collects all the vertically-formatted videos produced for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. ||", "hits": 143 }, { "id": 14786, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14786/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2025-02-20T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Swift Spacecraft Animations: 2025", "description": "NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, shown in this artist’s concept, orbits Earth as it studies the ever-changing universe. 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The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 40532, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/punch/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2025-01-22T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "PUNCH – Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit capturing global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind, a stream of charged particles from the Sun that fills the solar system. By using PUNCH to image the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere — including the Sun, solar wind, and Earth — as a single connected system.\n\nPUNCH launched on March 11, 2025, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.\n\nLearn more: science.nasa.gov/mission/punch", "hits": 233 }, { "id": 14754, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14754/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-16T10:14:00-05:00", "title": "NASA’s Pandora Mission Closer To Probing Alien Atmospheres", "description": "Basic overview of NASA's Pandora mission, which will revolutionize the study of exoplanet atmospheres.", "hits": 106 }, { "id": 14688, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14688/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-09-26T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "5 Ways NASA Uses Solar Power", "description": "From studying life on Earth to powering spacecraft across the Solar System, NASA uses solar power to explore near and far. In September 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year theme is Environment and Sustainability. The Heliophysics Big Year is a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system. From October 14, 2023, to December 24, 2024, the Heliophysics Big Year celebrates under a theme, sharing opportunities to participate in many solar science events and activities. During the Heliophysics Big Year, participation isn’t limited to science – NASA invites everyone to celebrate the Sun with as many Sun-related activities as they can.To learn more about NASA’s history with solar power, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/how-nasa-uses-and-improves-solar-power/ || ", "hits": 100 }, { "id": 14603, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14603/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-30T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "NICER Hardware and Patch Kit", "description": "This video shows different components of NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer). The damaged thermal shield is a flight spare used during the patch testing process.0:00 A NICER patch slowly rotates counterclockwise. 0:14 A top-down view of the same patch, still rotating. 0:21 Another side view of the patch rotating. A gloved hand enters from the right-hand side, picks up the patch, and turns it on its side. The patch begins rotating again, so the tab on the bottom becomes visible. 1:03 A gloved hand slowly tilts a damaged thermal shield. 1:41 The thermal shield rests in a container that slowly rotates. 2:08 A gloved hand rotates a NICER X-ray concentrator. 2:30The camera moves past the X-ray concentrator. 2:52 A hand places a NICER sunshade on the table. 2:58 The sunshade rotates counterclockwise. 3:00 The sunshade rotates on its side.Credit:NASA/Sophia Roberts and Scott Wiessinger || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_print.jpg (1024x540) [16.9 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [23.1 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.00001_thm.png (80x40) [2.1 KB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.mp4 (4096x2160) [1.9 GB] || Studio_Shoot_Single_Components.mov (4096x2160) [12.7 GB] || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 14610, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14610/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-07-30T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Machining NICER’s Patches", "description": "This video shows Richard Koenecke, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, creating the body of one of the NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) patches.0:00 Two blocks of aluminum sit on a counter in front of a laptop that displays the schematics for the NICER patches. 0:06 Koenecke puts one block on the bed of a saw littered with metal shavings and then trims the block. 0:23 Koenecke sands down the block’s rough edges. 0:30 Koenecke walks into another part of his workshop. 0:37 Koenecke preps the machining chamber. 0:49 Inside the chamber, the machine starts to carve out the shape of the patch. Fluid sprayed from the nozzles above the tool helps cool the metal. 0:56 Koenecke looks into the chamber. 0:59 The chamber is shown at different angles. 1:15 Koenecke walking up to the chamber window. 1:22 Inside the chamber, the patch’s shape is now visible amidst a sea of aluminum shavings. 1:25 The cutting tool refines the shape of the patch. 1:40 Koenecke looks at a computer readout for the machining chamber. 1:45 Inside the chamber, the cutting tool lowers to hollow out the patch. 1:56 Koenecke holds and turns a block of the aluminum. 2:45 Koenecke’s dog Sara guards his shop on the Eastern Shore. 2:53 Koenecke sands a block of aluminum. 3:01 He closes the doors to the machining chamber and adjusts the settings on a computer screen. 3:10 Numbers change on the chamber’s computer screen. 3:31 Koenecke holds and turns the fully machined patch body. 3:51 In slow motion, Koenecke walking through his shop. 4:25 In slow motion, Koenecke holds the patch in close-up shots.Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts and Scott Wiessinger || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.03720_print.jpg (1024x576) [111.0 KB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.03720_searchweb.png (320x180) [82.6 KB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.03720_thm.png (80x40) [6.8 KB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.webm (3840x2160) [74.7 MB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.5 GB] || Machine_Shop_B-roll_-_Part_1_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [18.0 GB] || ", "hits": 53 }, { "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": 219 }, { "id": 14374, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14374/", "result_type": "Infographic", "release_date": "2023-08-03T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "A Guide to Cosmic Temperatures", "description": "Explore the temperatures of the cosmos, from absolute zero to the hottest temperatures yet achieved, with this infographic. Targets for the XRISM mission include supernova remnants, binary systems with stellar-mass black holes, galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, and vast clusters of galaxies.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott WiessingerMachine-readable PDF copy || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_small.jpg (1383x2048) [1.3 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Full.png (5530x8192) [60.5 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Full.jpg (5530x8192) [10.3 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_8bit.png (5530x8192) [24.5 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Half.png (2765x4096) [7.0 MB] || Cosmic_Temperatures_Infographic_Final_Half.jpg (2765x4096) [4.7 MB] || ", "hits": 978 }, { "id": 14199, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14199/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-08-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "One last pre-launch stretch for JPSS-2 solar array", "description": "There are two video versions contained here -- one with captions burned in and one without. || JPSS2_solar_deploy_no_captions.00792_print.jpg (1024x576) [168.2 KB] || JPSS2_solar_deploy_no_captions.00792_searchweb.png (320x180) [100.0 KB] || JPSS2_solar_deploy_no_captions.00792_web.png (320x180) [100.0 KB] || JPSS2_solar_deploy_no_captions.00792_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || JPSS2_solar_array_final.mp4 (4096x2304) [1.1 GB] || JPSS2_solar_deploy.en_US.srt [2.8 KB] || JPSS2_solar_deploy.en_US.vtt [2.7 KB] || JPSS2_solar_deploy_no_captions.mp4 (4096x2304) [1.1 GB] || JPSS2_solar_array_final.webm (4096x2304) [46.5 MB] || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 14181, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14181/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-08-04T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Interactive Stills", "description": "Right-side view of the Roman Space Telescope. 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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": 95 }, { "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": 72 }, { "id": 14075, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14075/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2022-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman x Webb Comics", "description": "Space is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get! This #ValentinesDay, we want to give you 18 sweet cosmic treats! Check out the thread below to learn more about these astro bites.See how Roman could help us learn more about these cosmic delights 1/10 nasa.gov/RomanOn X || VALENTINES_2024_Labels2.jpg (4172x4704) [1.8 MB] || VALENTINES_2024_Labels2.png (4172x4704) [6.6 MB] || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 20339, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20339/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-12-15T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Webb Deployment Animations", "description": "These animation show the James Webb Space Telescope deployment sequence, as well as breakout animations of each major deployment on the telescope.Each animation is available as a Quicktime ProRes, mpeg-4 or as a png frames sequence. || ", "hits": 149 }, { "id": 13944, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13944/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2021-10-14T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy L-2 Engineering Briefing", "description": "NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, October 14th, to preview the engineering behind the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. The Trojan asteroids are remnants of the early solar system clustered in two “swarms” leading and following Jupiter in its path around the Sun. The live briefing will stream on NASA Television, the agency's website, NASA’s Twitter account and the NASA App.Lucy engineering briefing participants include:• Joan Salute, associate director for flight programs, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters.• Katie Oakman, Lucy structures and mechanisms lead, Lockheed Martin Space.• Jessica Lounsbury, Lucy project systems engineer, Goddard.• Coralie Adam, deputy navigation team chief, KinetX Aerospace.Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids. The spacecraft will fly by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, which will make it the first spacecraft ever to return to our planet’s vicinity from the outer solar system.Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Lucy’s principal investigator is based out of the Boulder, Colorado, branch of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland provides overall mission management, systems engineering, and safety and mission assurance. Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, built the spacecraft. Lucy is the 13th mission in NASA’s Discovery Program. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Discovery Program for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The launch is managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 20346, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20346/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2021-09-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Lucy Deployment Animations", "description": "Animation showing Lucy spacecraft being released, deploying it's solar arrays and starting it's journey towards the trojan asteroids. || Lucy_deployment_Final_ProRes.00770_print.jpg (1024x576) [274.1 KB] || Lucy_deployment_Final_ProRes.00770_searchweb.png (320x180) [107.8 KB] || Lucy_deployment_Final_ProRes.00770_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || Lucy_deployment_Final1080.mov (1920x1080) [66.0 MB] || Lucy_deployment_Final_4K.mov (3840x2160) [156.5 MB] || Lucy_deployment_Final_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [3.3 GB] || ", "hits": 56 }, { "id": 40423, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/lucy/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2020-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lucy", "description": "Launching in 2021, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will be the first space mission to study the outer Solar System asteroids known as the Trojans, which are orbiting the same distance from the Sun as Jupiter. These fly-by encounters are planned to take place over a 12-year period. The instruments on board will collect data on surface geology, surface color and composition, the asteroids' interior and bulk properties, as well as any satellites and rings.\n\nLucy is named for the famous Australopithecus afarensis hominid fossil that shed light on our early human ancestors. By making the first exploration of the Trojan asteroids, the Lucy mission will improve our understanding of the early solar system, and be the first to uncover these fossils of planet formation.", "hits": 139 }, { "id": 13664, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13664/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-07-16T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "ESA and NASA Release First Images From Solar Orbiter Mission", "description": "Scientists from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA will present the first images captured by Solar Orbiter, the joint ESA/NASA mission to study the Sun, during an online news briefing at 8 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 16. Launched on Feb. 9, 2020, Solar Orbiter turned on all 10 of its instruments together for the first time in mid-June as it made its first close pass of the Sun. The flyby captured the closest images ever taken of the Sun. During the briefing, mission experts will discuss what these closeup images reveal about our star, including what we can learn from Solar Orbiter’s new measurements of particles and magnetic fields flowing from the Sun.The briefing will stream live at:https://www.nasa.gov/solarorbiterfirstlight/Participants in the call include:•Daniel Müller – Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at ESA•Holly R. Gilbert – Solar Orbiter Project Scientist at NASA•José Luis Pellón Bailón – Solar Orbiter Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA•David Berghmans – Principal investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at the Royal Observatory of Belgium•Sami Solanki – Principal investigator of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) and director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research•Christopher J. Owen – Principal investigator of the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London•ESA’s first light images•ESA press release •NASA feature story || ", "hits": 212 }, { "id": 40414, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/webb-arapp-media/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2020-04-02T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb AR App Media", "description": "Backend video content to support the Webb AR app!", "hits": 114 }, { "id": 13566, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13566/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-03-01T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Servicing Mission 3B, STS-109", "description": "Servicing Mission 3B was actually the fourth visit to Hubble. NASA split the original Servicing Mission 3 into two parts and conducted 3A in December of 1999. During SM3B a new science instrument will be installed: the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Several other activities were accomplished as well over a 12-day mission with 5 spacewalks.Four astronauts trained for five scheduled spacewalks to upgrade and service the Hubble Space Telescope during the STS-109 mission in early 2002. Three veteran astronauts, John M.Grunsfeld, James H. Newman, and Richard M. Linnehan, were joined by Michael J. Massimino, who will be making his first space flight.Grunsfeld had flown three times, STS-67 in 1995, STS-81 in 1997, and STS-103 in 1999 when he performed two spacewalks to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Newman, veteran of three space flights, STS-51 in 1993, STS-69 in 1995, and STS-88 in 1998, had conducted four previous spacewalks. Linnehan had flown on STS-78 in 1996 and STS-90 in 1998. Massimino is a member of the 1996 astronaut class.Scott Altman, (Cmdr., USN), a two-time shuttle veteran, commanded the STS-109 mission. He was joined on the flight deck by pilot Duane Carey, (Lt. Col., USAF), making his first space flight, and flight engineer Nancy Currie (Lt. Col, USA, Ph.D.). Currie had three previous space flights to her credit. || ", "hits": 77 }, { "id": 13542, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13542/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-02-11T09:55:00-05:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Servicing Mission 2, STS-82", "description": "After a successful first mission to correct Hubble’s vision in 1993, a second Servicing Mission (STS-82) was launched to the space telescope in February 1997. The goal of this 10-day operation was to enhance Hubble’s scientific capabilities for discovery by conducting a number of maintenance tasks and refurbishing the existing systems.The crew took more than 150 other crew aids and tools on this mission. They ranged from a simple bag for carrying some of the smaller tools to sophisticated, battery-operated power tools.A seven-member crew took part in this mission. Four astronauts conducted the planned spacewalks: Mark Lee, Gregory Harbaugh, Steven Smith and Joseph Tanner were part of the extravehicular activity crew. Kenneth Bowersox was the commander, Scott Horowitz was the pilot, and Steven Hawley was the Remote Manipulator System Operator. || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 13505, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13505/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-12-11T15:00:00-05:00", "title": "Solar Orbiter - ESA Animations", "description": "Solar Orbiter is an European Space Agency (ESA) mission with strong NASA participation. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high-latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. || ", "hits": 160 }, { "id": 13208, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13208/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2019-05-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The 20-foot Solar Array Powering the James Webb Space Telescope", "description": "The James Webb Space Telescope's 20-foot solar array will provide all the power the observatory needs, by converting sunlight into electricity. Webb's solar array is its first and most important deployment. The small yet effective array will release itself like an accordian to a straightened configuration shortly after launch. The power it creates will help operate the telescope's propulsion and communication subsystems, as well as its scientific instruments. || ", "hits": 110 }, { "id": 31026, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31026/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2019-03-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Opportunity's Final Image", "description": "Annotations:Incomplete image frames appear black and white. Color images taken with the rover's Pancam are taken one color at a time requiring three images of the same subject to create full color. Opportunity did not have the time to photograph those locations using the green and blue filters before a severe Mars-wide dust storm swept in on June 2018.The solar panel pyro-release mechanism is located at the hinge of the rover's solar panels. The solar arrays are folded for launch, cruise and landing on Mars. After the rover is safely on the surface, pyro-release mechanisms are fired to release the solar panels to their fixed deployment configuration.The tabular rock outcrop was the last surface feature Opportunity analyzed on June 3, 2018, (Sol 5,014) during its mission of exploration. The rover team was wrapping up investigations of these rocks when the dust storm hit.A portion of Opportunity's solar array can be seen here. The rover's solar arrays consist of high-efficiency triple-junction solar cells. The extended \"wings\" of the deployed solar arrays are often visible in images, especially ones that image the ground near the rover.Opportunity's entry point to Perseverance Valley. The rover first arrived at the valley rim on May 20, 2017, or Sol 4,736.Three pitted rock targets (\"Tomé,\" \"Nazas\" and \"Allende\") were investigated by Opportunity in late April and early May 2018. The pitted rocks had textures and compositions that were unique from anything the science team had seen during the mission.Endeavour Crater's rim is 250 feet (76 meters) distant.This small hill on Endeavour Crater rim is 210 feet (64 meters) distant.Rover wheel tracks appear as a reddish-brown color with linear tread marks.Rocky outcrop \"Ysleta del Sur,\" which is 23 feet (7 meters) distant, was investigated by Opportunity from March 3 through 29, 2018, or sols 5,015 through 5,038.The low-gain antenna, whose upper portion is visible here, would send and receive information in every direction, meaning it was \"omni-directional.\" The antenna was designed to transmit and receive radio waves at a low rate to the Deep Space Network antennas on Earth. || opportunity_last_image_print.jpg (1024x574) [80.8 KB] || opportunity_last_image.png (4104x2304) [6.3 MB] || opportunity_last_image_searchweb.png (320x180) [44.4 KB] || opportunity_last_image_thm.png (80x40) [4.2 KB] || opportunitys-final-image.hwshow [292 bytes] || ", "hits": 76 }, { "id": 13081, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13081/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-04T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Launch, STS-31", "description": "STS-31 Mission Highlights Resource TapeLaunch of the Hubble Space Telescope, April 24-29 1990Astronauts: Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Bruce McCandless, Steven Hawley, Kathryn Sullivan09:50 - Launch12:27 - Opening bay doors20:40 - Taking telescope out of payload bay24:50 - Deploying the solar arrays26:08 - Deploying the high gain antennas26:56 - Unfurling the first solar array30:16 - EVA preparation31:24 - Unfurling the second solar array32:00 - Second solar array gets stuck34:30 - Disable tension monitoring software to unfurl the solar array36:25 - Go for Hubble release39:07 - Student experiment43:50 - Commands sent to open aperture door45:45 - Thank you to training crew46:40 - Thoughts on historical significance50:09 - Closing bay doors50:58 - Shuttle re-entry and landing54:59 - Astronauts exiting Shuttle || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001_thumbnail.jpg (960x720) [265.6 KB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001_thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [116.7 KB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001_thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [7.8 KB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.mov (960x720) [9.4 GB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.mp4 (960x720) [4.0 GB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.webm (960x720) [423.6 MB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.en_US.srt [55.9 KB] || GSFC_1990xxxx_HST_m001.en_US.vtt [53.0 KB] || ", "hits": 147 }, { "id": 13082, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13082/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-10-04T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble Archive - Servicing Mission 1, STS-61", "description": "Shortly after the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed in 1990, the observatory's primary mirror was discovered to have an aberration that affected the clarity of the telescope's early images. Fortunately, Hubble, orbiting 353 miles (569 km) above the surface of the Earth, was the first telescope designed to be visited in space by astronauts to perform repairs, replace parts, and update its technology with new instruments. Servicing Mission 1, launched in December 1993, was the first opportunity to conduct planned maintenance on the telescope. In addition, new instruments were installed and the optics of the flaw in Hubble's primary mirror was corrected. || ", "hits": 86 }, { "id": 12979, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12979/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-06-06T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Power Up: Solar Arrays Installed on NASA’s Mission to Touch the Sun", "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe depends on the Sun, not just as an object of scientific investigation, but also for the power that drives its instruments and systems. On Thursday, May 31, 2018, the spacecraft’s solar arrays were installed and tested. These arrays will power all of the spacecraft’s systems, including the suites of scientific instruments studying the solar wind and the Sun’s corona as well as the Solar Array Cooling System (SACS) that will protect the arrays from the extreme heat at the Sun. “Unlike solar-powered missions that operate far from the Sun and are focused only on generating power from it, we need to manage the power generated along with the substantial heat that comes from being so close to the Sun,” said Andy Driesman, project manager from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. “When we’re out around the orbit of Venus, we fully extend the arrays to get the power we need. But when we’re near the Sun, we tuck the arrays back until only a small wing is exposed, and that portion is enough to provide needed electrical power.”The solar arrays are cooled by a gallon of water that circulates through tubes in the arrays and into large radiators at the top of the spacecraft. They are just over three and a half feet (1.12 meters) long and nearly two and a half feet (0.69 meters) wide. Mounted on motorized arms, the arrays will retract almost all of their surface behind the Thermal Protection System – the heat shield – when the spacecraft is close to the Sun. The solar array installation marks some of the final preparation and testing of Parker Solar Probe leading up to the mission’s July 31 launch date. || ", "hits": 37 }, { "id": 12946, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12946/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-05-08T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Solar Power: Parker Solar Probe Tests Its Arrays", "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe gets its power from the Sun, so the solar arrays that collect energy from our star need to be in perfect working order. This month, members of the mission team tested of the arrays at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, to ensure the system performs as designed and provides power to the spacecraft during its historic mission to the Sun.Parker Solar Probe is powered by two solar arrays, totaling just under 17 square feet (1.55 square meters) in area. They are mounted to motorized arms that will retract almost all of their surface behind the Thermal Protection System – the heat shield – when the spacecraft is close to the Sun. || ", "hits": 47 }, { "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": 69 }, { "id": 12760, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12760/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2017-10-27T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Solar Array Deployment B-Roll", "description": "Footage of TESS spacecraft solar arrays being deployed for testing at Orbital ATK in Dulles, Va. || TESS_SA_Video_Color_Correct_p1.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [200.1 KB] || TESS_SA_Video_Color_Correct_p1.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [117.0 KB] || TESS_SA_Video_Color_Correct_p1.00001_web.png (320x180) [117.0 KB] || TESS_SA_Video_Color_Correct_p1.00001_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || TESS_SA_Video_Color_Correct_p1.mov (1920x1080) [9.0 GB] || TESS_SA_Video_Color_Correct_p1.webm (1920x1080) [71.2 MB] || ", "hits": 26 }, { "id": 12749, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12749/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-10-26T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "TESS Solar Array Deployment Photos", "description": "Photo of TESS spacecraft solar arrays being deployed for testing at Orbital ATK in Dulles, Va. || TESS_SA_Deploy_Test_-_119.jpg (4628x3074) [3.1 MB] || TESS_SA_Deploy_Test_-_119_print.jpg (1024x680) [375.2 KB] || TESS_SA_Deploy_Test_-_119_searchweb.png (320x180) [116.3 KB] || TESS_SA_Deploy_Test_-_119_web.png (320x212) [133.2 KB] || TESS_SA_Deploy_Test_-_119_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || ", "hits": 44 }, { "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": 483 }, { "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": 118 }, { "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": 179 }, { "id": 11490, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11490/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2014-02-26T16:00:00-05:00", "title": "Landsat 8 Celebrates First Year in Orbit", "description": "On Feb. 11, 2013, Landsat 8 launched into Earth orbit, riding on an Atlas V rocket. Weighing 6,133 pounds, Landsat 8 is the eigth satellite in the long-running Landsat program, jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. At 16 feet tall, with a 32 foot long solar array, Landsat 8 orbits Earth at an altitude of 438 miles, moving at a speed of 16,760 miles per hour. It takes 99 minutes to complete one orbit, with about 14.5 orbits each day. There have been 5,319 orbits in the first year of Landsat 8's mission. It takes 16 days to build a complete scan of the globe, and on the 17th day the orbit cycle begins again.Between the two instruments on board, Landsat 8 records data in 11 separate wavelength regions spanning visible, infrared, and thermal radiation. The data is transmitted several times a day to the USGS Earth Resources and Observation Science Center in Sioux Falls, SD, where it is added to the archive of Landsat data stretching back to 1972. In its first year, users have downloaded 1,322,969 scenes of Landsat 8 data from the USGS.Landsat 8 continues the decades-long Landsat record of Earth's land surface at a scale where the impacts of humans and nature can be detected and monitored over time. Every continent, every season, every year, at a resolution that can distinguish an area the size of a baseball field. With help from Landsat we can monitor the cultivation of our food crops, quantify our precious water resources as they ebb and flow, and track deforestation globally. Landsat data constitute a key ingredient in decision making for agriculture, climate research, disaster mitigation, ecosystems, forestry, human health, urban growth, and water management. || ", "hits": 92 }, { "id": 11294, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11294/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-07T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM High-resolution Still Images", "description": "These are images documenting the building, integration and testing of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The most recent developments are listed first.For additional images please visit the Precipitation Measurement Missions Image Gallery. || Vibration testing of the horizontal axis of the spacecraft.Credit: NASA || GPM_horiz_vibe.png (3456x5184) [26.4 MB] || GPM_horiz_vibe_web.png (320x480) [312.0 KB] || GPM_horiz_vibe_thm.png (80x40) [10.5 KB] || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 11286, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11286/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-06-04T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS L-14 Media Briefing", "description": "Lying just above the sun's surface is an enigmatic region of the solar atmosphere called the interface region. A relatively thin region, just 3,000 to 6,000 miles thick, it pulses with movement: zones of different temperature and density are scattered throughout, while energy and heat course through the solar material. 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": 60 }, { "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": 66 }, { "id": 11027, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11027/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-08-09T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "RBSP L-14 Press Conference", "description": "The Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission is part of NASA's Living With a Star Geospace program to explore fundamental processes that operate throughout the solar system, in particular those that generate hazardous space weather effects near the Earth and phenomena that could affect solar system exploration.RBSP is designed to help us understand the sun's influence on the Earth and near-Earth space by studying the planet's radiation belts on various scales of space and time.Understanding the radiation belt environment and its variability has extremely important practical applications in the areas of spacecraft operations, spacecraft and spacecraft system design, mission planning, and astronaut safety.RBSP is scheduled to launch no earlier than 4:08 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The twin probes will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.News conference panelists are:— Madhulika Guhathakurta, Living With a Star program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington— Mona Kessel, RBSP program scientist, NASA Headquarters— Barry Mauk, RBSP project scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md.— Rick Fitzgerald, RBSP project manager, APL, Laurel, Md. || ", "hits": 51 }, { "id": 10999, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10999/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GPM Core Spacecraft Integration and Testing", "description": "A selection of footage of the GPM Core Observatory building, testing, and integration. || ", "hits": 25 }, { "id": 10425, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10425/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-04-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Testing of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)", "description": "The LRO spacecraft was built by engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It was then put through extensive testing. The orbiter was subjected to the extreme temperature cycles of the lunar environment as engineers conducted simulated flight operations. \"We have cooked LRO, frozen it, shaken it, and blasted it with electromagnetic waves, and still it operates,\" said Dave Everett, LRO mission system engineer at Goddard. \"We have performed more than 2,500 hours of powered testing since January.\" || ", "hits": 42 }, { "id": 10399, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10399/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2009-02-24T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Glory Cleanroom B-roll, Orbital Sciences Corporation", "description": "In the lead up to launch, a number of critical spacecraft building and testing milestones took place at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Virginia. This video b-roll was filmed in cleanrooms at Orbital Sciences Corporation, and provides documentation of critical Glory milestone moments. || ", "hits": 11 }, { "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": 40 }, { "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": 69 }, { "id": 10321, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10321/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-08-01T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 Resource Reel v2.0", "description": "1. Hubble Space Telescope Service Mission 4 Animation: A collection of several animations showing the Hubble Space Telescope orbiting Earth and in space shuttle Atlantis cargo bay. All animations depict the Hubble Space Telescope in its current (July 2008) configuration. || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-100852_print.jpg (1024x768) [98.4 KB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1_web.png (320x240) [107.6 KB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1_thm.png (80x40) [16.4 KB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.3 KB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1.webmhd.webm (960x540) [12.8 MB] || 1-resource-hstsm4animation-resourcereelreference_MPEG-1.mpg (320x240) [63.5 MB] || ", "hits": 28 }, { "id": 10318, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10318/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2008-07-26T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "HST SM4 Extended Resource Reel v2.0", "description": "Full HD Resource ReelThis resource reel includes all the clips shown below on this page. || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [99.1 KB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1.mov (1280x720) [57.2 GB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.mp4 (1280x720) [4.1 GB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1_1.webm (1280x720) [454.7 MB] || G2008-009HD-HST_SM4_Footage_Resource_Reel_v2.0_Reel_1.webm [0 bytes] || ", "hits": 52 }, { "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": 19 }, { "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": 18 }, { "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": 857 } ] }