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The TRACERS mission will help scientists understand an explosive process called magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth’s atmosphere. Magnetic reconnection occurs when magnetic fields and particles from the Sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field. By understanding this process, scientists will be able to better understand and prepare for impacts of solar activity on Earth, such as auroras and disruptions to telecommunications.Below are clips of TRACERS’ testing and integration at the Millennium Space Systems Small Satellite Factory in El Segundo, California. Learn more about the mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/tracers/ || ", "hits": 88 }, { "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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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": 102 }, { "id": 14608, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14608/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-06-24T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "BurstCube Deploys from International Space Station", "description": "The shoebox-sized BurstCube and SNOOPI (Signals of Opportunity P-band Investigation) satellites entered low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station on April 18, 2024.BurstCube will study gamma-ray bursts, the universe’s most powerful explosions. SNOOPI will demonstrate technology for measuring soil moisture. These CubeSats launched to the space station aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission on March 21, 2024 || ", "hits": 44 }, { "id": 14591, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14591/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-05-16T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Quickshot: Twin NASA Spacecraft Headed To Ends Of The Earth Launching May 22", "description": "Scroll down page to see pre-recorded soundbites available for download + animations of the satellites.Check out 5 Things to Know About NASA’s Tiny Twin Polar Satellites ! || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM.png (3360x844) [4.6 MB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print.jpg (1024x257) [95.7 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_print.jpg (1024x257) [53.8 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_web.png (320x80) [53.4 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_thm.png (80x40) [10.8 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_searchweb.png (320x180) [94.5 KB] || Screenshot_2024-05-14_at_4.19.48_PM_print_thm.png (80x40) [10.3 KB] || ", "hits": 31 }, { "id": 31248, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31248/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2023-09-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "How Do Space Weather Effects & Solar Storms Affect Earth?", "description": "Technological and infrastructure affected by space weather events. || space-weather-effects_print.jpg (1024x953) [307.6 KB] || space-weather-effects.png (3480x3240) [8.3 MB] || space-weather-effects_searchweb.png (320x180) [77.3 KB] || space-weather-effects_thm.png (80x40) [6.2 KB] || how-do-space-weather-effects-solar-storms-affect-earth.hwshow [320 bytes] || ", "hits": 439 }, { "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. 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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching the very stuff the Sun is made of will help scientists uncover critical information about our closest star and its influence on the solar system. More information here. || ", "hits": 246 }, { "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": 47 }, { "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": 173 }, { "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": 80 }, { "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": 90 }, { "id": 13031, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13031/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-14T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "NASA'S NICER Does the Space Station Twist", "description": "NICER Video with Astro and Goddard end tagsMusic: \"Frames of Motion\" from Killer TracksComplete transcript available. || NICER_ISS_Goddard.mp4 (1920x1080) [94.9 MB] || NICER_ISS_Goddard.webm (1920x1080) [9.9 MB] || NICER_ISS_Goddard_SRT_Captions.en_US.srt [868 bytes] || NICER_ISS_Goddard_SRT_Captions.en_US.vtt [806 bytes] || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 13036, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13036/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-09T15:00:00-04:00", "title": "Soundbites from Parker Solar Probe Experts", "description": "Nicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[0:00]Parker Solar Probe really is a historic mission, it was first dreamed of in 1958 and it has remained the highest priority mission throughout that period. The reason it hasn’t flown is just because it has taken a while for technology to catch up with the dreams that we had for this amazing mission.[0:23]The coolest thing about my job is just the sheer feeling that this is a 60-year journey that people have gone on to make Parker Solar Probe a reality and to be there at the finish line as we’re on the pad and ready to launch—that is definitely the coolest thing about my job.Betsy Congdon - Lead Thermal Protection Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[0:51]After working on this for 10 years, it is really a pleasure to see it actually coming to fruition. To be one small part of this huge engineering team that is making science dreams come true is just amazing. I can’t wait to re-write textbooks and change the way we look at the Sun forever. I’m a whole ball of excited, and I honestly don’t know exactly how I’m going to feel at launch but I’m really excited to pass this off to the mission operations team and see all the science data that comes down and just get to enjoy all that Solar Probe brings us.[1:32]There are many enabling technologies, the solar arrays are really important, the autonomy is very important, one of the ones that is obviously also critical is the heat shield, and developing the technology to actually protect the probe at the Sun.[1:49]A sandwich panel is a lot like a honeycomb panel you find in a traditional spacecraft or on airplanes. You have the outer face sheets, and then you have a core. In this case the two outer face sheets are carbon-carbon composite, which is a lot like the graphite epoxy you might find in your golf clubs, it’s just been super-heated, and then the inside is a carbon foam. So the Parker Solar Probe heat shield has a white coating that’s on the Sun-facing surface of this giant frisbee that’s protecting the rest of the spacecraft. And that white coating was specially designed here at the lab, in collaboration with REDD and the space department as well as the Whiting school at Johns Hopkins proper, to actually work at the Sun, specifically designed for Solar Probe. And the concept is basically you’d rather be in a white car on a hot day, than a black car on a hot day—it just knocks down the heat that much more. So it’s helping us stay cool at the Sun.[2:43]The titanium truss was also specially designed for solar probe. It’s a really neat piece. It’s a welded titanium truss that’s about 4 feet tall, but it only weighs about 50 pounds. And the key there is we’re trying to minimize the conduction between the heat shield and the spacecraft, so you want to have as little stuff there as possible.[3:05]But then also the first closest approach will be a very interesting time. We’ll obviously be working towards closest approach a long time and getting science back from the beginning, but the heat shield has to do its hardest work 7 years into the mission, which has always been an interesting construct of the mission.[3:27]When we’re at closest approach, the front surface of the heat shield will be at about 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The back surface of the heat shield will be about 600 degrees Fahrenheit. But the spacecraft bus is basically sitting at 85 degrees Fahrenheit. So the shield is actually really keeping everything very cool, most of the stuff is on the bus.[3:50]The mission that is in its current form is actually a solar powered mission, whereas some of the earlier concepts were nuclear powered. So they just had different mission designs, there were different constraints on the mission, and so once this current form iteration with a flat heat shield, or 8-foot frisbee as we like to say, because it’s basically a giant sandwich panel protecting the spacecraft as an umbrella, really developed as a part of this solar-powered mission that is its most recent rendition. And so, reaching out with expertise all around the lab, that whole team really brought this heat shield to fruition.Yanping Guo - Design and Navigation Manager, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[4:34]Of all the space missions I’ve worked on, Parker Solar Probe is the most challenging and complex mission to design and to fly. The launch energy required to reach the Sun is 55 times that required to get to Mars, and two times to Pluto.Annette Dolbow - Integration and Test Lead Engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory[5:00]So the tensest moment for me after launch is when we’re sitting in the control room and we’re waiting for that green telemetry to show that the spacecraft is turned on and we can actually talk to it. || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [22.0 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [8.9 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_web.png (320x180) [8.9 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.00001_thm.png (80x40) [1.3 KB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.mp4 (1920x1080) [385.8 MB] || 18-03953_PSP_Media_Soundbites_v1.webm [41.0 MB] || ", "hits": 65 }, { "id": 13029, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13029/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Pre-Launch Briefing", "description": "Hosted by Karen Fox - Heliophysics Communications Lead, NASA Goddard/NASA HQSpeakers:Scott Messer - Program Manager, NASA Programs, United Launch AllianceOmar Baez - Launch Director, NASA, Kennedy Space CenterKathy Rice - Launch Weather Officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force StationThomas Zurbuchen - Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASANicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabAndy Dreisman - Project Manger The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab || ", "hits": 32 }, { "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": 40 }, { "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": 30942, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30942/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2018-05-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The first Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)", "description": "ICESat launch animation and sensor operation || VTS_01_1_trim_00561.jpg (1280x720) [131.3 KB] || VTS_01_1_trim_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [61.6 MB] || VTS_01_1_trim.webm (720x480) [29.8 MB] || ", "hits": 124 }, { "id": 12795, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12795/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-12-06T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe: Environmental Testing", "description": "NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed laser illumination testing the week of Nov. 27, 2017. During this test, each segment of the spacecraft’s solar panels was illuminated with lasers to check that they were still electrically connected after the vigorous vibration and acoustic testing completed earlier this fall. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is in the midst of intense environmental testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in preparation for its journey to the Sun. These tests have simulated the noise and shaking the spacecraft will experience during its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, scheduled for July 31, 2018.Parker Solar Probe’s integration and testing team must check over the spacecraft and systems to make sure everything is still in optimal working condition after experiencing these rigorous conditions – including a check of the solar arrays, which will provide electrical power to the spacecraft.Parker Solar Probe will explore the Sun's outer atmosphere and make critical observations that will answer decades-old questions about the physics of stars. The resulting data will also help improve how we forecast major eruptions on the Sun and subsequent space weather events that can impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space. The mission is named for Eugene N. Parker, whose profound insights into solar physics and processes have helped shape the field of heliophysics.Link to Parker Solar Probe blog post. || ", "hits": 152 }, { "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": 18 }, { "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": 35 }, { "id": 12729, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12729/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2017-09-22T19:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe Animations", "description": "Animated Sequence Of Parker Solar ProbeCredit: NASA/JHUAPL || ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [41.9 KB] || ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_searchweb.png (180x320) [37.2 KB] || ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_web.png (320x180) [37.2 KB] || ParkerSolarProbe-AnimatedSequence.00001_thm.png (80x40) [3.2 KB] || ParkerAnimatedSeq.mov (1920x1080) [2.9 GB] || ParkerAnimatedSeq.mp4 (1920x1080) [343.1 MB] || ParkerAnimatedSeq.webm (1920x1080) [21.1 MB] || ", "hits": 349 }, { "id": 40338, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/parker-solar-probe/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2017-09-22T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Parker Solar Probe", "description": "On a mission to “touch the Sun,” NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona — the Sun’s upper atmosphere — passing within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface during its closest approaches. Parker Solar Probe flies through the corona at speeds up to 430,000 mph taking measurements to help scientists better understand the fundamental drivers of solar activity and space weather events that can impact life on Earth. Facing brutal heat and radiation conditions, Parker Solar Probe employs four instrument suites designed to study electric and magnetic fields, plasma, waves and energetic particles, as well as image the solar wind, the constant stream of material released by the Sun. \n\nParker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.\n\nLearn more: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/", "hits": 736 }, { "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": 50 }, { "id": 20258, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20258/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2016-08-17T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft and Instrument Animations", "description": "OSIRIS-REx is a solar-powered spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems. The spacecraft bus measures 3.2 meters high by 2.4 meters wide (about 10x8 feet). With its solar arrays deployed, the spacecraft spans 6.2 meters in length (over 20 feet). A high-gain antenna on the sun-pointed side of OSIRIS-REx enables communication with Earth. On the opposite side is the TAGSAM, a 3.4-meter-long, folding arm that will reach out and grab a sample of the mission's target, near-Earth asteroid Bennu. || ", "hits": 90 }, { "id": 30771, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30771/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2016-04-29T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "4K Video from the ISS, April 2016", "description": "ISS crew Earth observations, || earth_obs_00720_print.jpg (1024x576) [164.4 KB] || earth_obs_00720.png (3840x2160) [31.7 MB] || earth_obs_00720_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.1 KB] || earth_obs_00720_thm.png (80x40) [6.3 KB] || ISS_Crew_Earth_Observations_720p.mp4 (1280x720) [19.7 MB] || ISS_Crew_Earth_Observations_720p.webm (1280x720) [7.5 MB] || ISS_Crew_Earth_Observations_2160p.mp4 (3840x2160) [80.1 MB] || ", "hits": 638 }, { "id": 11314, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11314/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2013-07-25T13:55:00-04:00", "title": "IRIS First Light", "description": "The images and video on this page are from the IRIS first light media teleconference on July 25, 2013.For supporting media resources, please click here.On July 17, 2013 at 11:14 pm PDT (2:14 pm EDT) the IRIS Lockheed Martin instrument team successfully opened the door on NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, which launched June 27, 2013, aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.As the telescope door opened, IRIS’s single instrument began to observe the sun for the first time. Designed to research the interface region in more detail than has ever been done before, IRIS’s instrument is a combination of an ultraviolet telescope and a spectrograph. The telescope provides high-resolution images, capturing data on about 1 percent of the sun at a time. The images can resolve very fine features, as small as 150 miles across. While the telescope can look at only one wavelength of light at a time, the spectrograph collects information about many wavelengths of light at once. The instrument then splits the sun’s light into its various wavelengths and measures how much of any given wavelength is present. Analysis of the spectral lines can also provide velocity, temperature and density information, key information when trying to track how energy and heat moves through the region. || ", "hits": 48 }, { "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": 52 }, { "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": 23 }, { "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": 47 }, { "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": 37 }, { "id": 10380, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10380/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2009-02-18T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Two Glory Beauty Passes", "description": "The Glory spacecraft uses Orbital Sciences Corporation Space Systems Group's LEOStar-1 bus design, with deployable solar arrays, 3-axis stabilization, and X-band/S-band RF communications capabilities. The structure consists of an octagonal aluminum space frame and a hydrazine propulsion module containing enough fuel to support initial orbit raising and at least 36 months of on-orbit service. The spacecraft bus also provides payload power; command, telemetry, and science data interfaces, including onboard storage of data; and an attitude control subsystem to support instrument pointing requirements. Two animated beauty passes reveal different perspectives of the spacecraft in orbit. || ", "hits": 16 }, { "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. 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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": 16 }, { "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": 13 }, { "id": 20123, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20123/", "result_type": "Animation", "release_date": "2007-09-14T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "GLAST Launch and Deployment", "description": "GLAST's launch is scheduled for early 2008 from Cape Canaveral Air Station on Florida's eastern coast. GLAST will be carried on a Delta II Heavy launch vehicle, with 9 solid rocket boosters. The solids are actually from the Delta III series (hence the term 'heavy'), mounted on a Delta II. It has a 10-foot fairing and two stages. Stowed in the launch vehicle, the spacecraft is 9.2 feet (2.8 meters) high by 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter. Once deployed, GLAST becomes a little bit taller and much wider (15 meters) with the Ku-band antenna deployed and the solar arrays extended. || ", "hits": 32 } ] }