Goddard Space Flight Center
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) of NASA , named after the rocket pioneer Robert Goddard is located in Greenbelt in Prince George's County in the US state of Maryland . Other related facilities are located on Wallops Island in Virginia .
The GSFC is a scientific research laboratory for unmanned space travel and was founded on May 1, 1959.
The GSFC is home to the World Data Center for Satellite Information ( WDC SI ), which registers all spacecraft worldwide, and the National Space Science Data Center, which publishes research results and other data from and about spacecraft.
The registration takes place through the numbering of the satellites and probes, the Spacecraft ID (SCID) is an 8 or 10 bit long binary number that was introduced and standardized by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS).
Scientific missions
- Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
- ASTRO-E2
- Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO)
- Cluster II
- Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
- Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer ( EUVE )
- Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR)
- Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST)
- Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope ( GLAST )
- High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2)
- ISEE / ICE program Like ISEE 3 / ICE, the ISEE 1 satellite came from the USA; ESA provided ISEE 2
- Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE)
- IMP-8
- International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)
- Microwave Anisotropy Probe spacecraft (MAP)
- Polar
- Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager spacecraft ( RHESSI )
- Solar, Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer ( SAMPEX )
- Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
- Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS)
- Swift
- Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics ( TIMED )
- Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE)
- wind
- Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)
Web links
- history.nasa.gov: Dreams, Hopes, Realities - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: The First Forty Years (online book)
- nasa.gov: Goddard Space Flight Center Homepage (Engl.)
- youtube.com: NASA Goddard (own " Youtube channel")
Coordinates: 38 ° 59 ′ 32 " N , 76 ° 51 ′ 8" W.
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