News Archive / Tagged: Goddard Space Flight Center

• Detector array delivered for Roman Space Telescope

  Derek RichardsonMay 17th, 2023

  NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s primary instrument is set to receive its Focal Plane System, what NASA calls the "heart" of the observatory.

• James Webb Space Telescope begins multi-instrument alignment

  Theresa CrossMarch 23rd, 2022

  The James Webb Space Telescope aligned its near-infrared camera, focusing on an image of a single star as engineers prepared to align its other instruments.

• James Webb Space Telescope sees first light, takes ‘selfie’

  Theresa CrossFebruary 12th, 2022

  Over the last week, the James Webb Space Telescope began detecting its first photons of light as it begins a three-month process to align its mirror segments.

• COVID-19 concerns see all NASA centers elevated to Response Framework Stage 3

  Matt HaskellMarch 18th, 2020

  Throughout the world, a novel coronavirus disease (known formally as COVID-19) has begun to take hold and is quickly bringing changes to the world as we know it.

• Bridenstine selects new director of Goddard Space Flight Center

  Joe LatrellAugust 1st, 2019

  Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has been assigned a new acting director by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine as the previous head of the Center has opted to move on.

• New observations help scientists understand lunar water cycle

  Cullen DesforgesMarch 23rd, 2019

  Recently, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter made an observation that could help scientists understand the water cycle present on the lunar surface.

• UPDATE: Blue Origin targeting Wednesday for NS-10 flight

  Jason RhianJanuary 20th, 2019

  After a 2018 postponement, Blue Origin is targeting a new date to send the company's third New Shepard rocket on its fourth flight.

• OSIRIS-REx spacecraft enters record-breaking orbit around asteroid Bennu

  Jim SharkeyJanuary 2nd, 2019

  Almost overshadowed while New Horizons was zipping past Ultima Thule, another spacecraft went into orbit around an asteroid, albeit a little closer to home.

• Barely on the job a week, OSIRIS-REx makes major discovery

  Cullen DesforgesDecember 11th, 2018

  On Dec. 3, 2018, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the half-kilometer wide Bennu asteroid to begin a two-year study to inspect, investigate, and eventually collect samples of the materials making up its mysterious surface.

• Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids given the go ahead

  Jason RhianOctober 31st, 2018

  NASA's missions to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, have focused on the giant gas planet itself. This could soon change as the space agency has just given the go ahead for the development of a spacecraft designed to study tiny bodies that travel alongside the "king of the planets."

• Backup Hubble gyroscope encounters anomaly during recovery efforts

  Jason RhianOctober 23rd, 2018

  Engineers encountered a slight hiccup in bringing the Hubble Space Telescope out of safe mode and back to conducting scientific operations.

• Hubble enters safe mode after encountering gyroscope problem

  Jason RhianOctober 10th, 2018

  An issue has been discovered with one of Hubble's gyroscopes that help point the telescope. What impact will this have on science observations made by the 30-year-old spacecraft?

• NASA awards WFIRST contract to Ball Aerospace

  Joe LatrellMay 30th, 2018

  The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is starting to become a reality as NASA begins awarding contracts for the construction of key components. Ball Aerospace recently received one of these contracts for the projected $3.2-billion project.

• Test photo taken as TESS performs lunar flyby

  Joe LatrellMay 22nd, 2018

  NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) took an image using one of the four cameras on board the spacecraft. The image is a two-second exposure centered on the Centaurus constellation in the southern sky.

• NASA upgrading ground stations used for emergency ISS communications

  Derek RichardsonApril 27th, 2018

  NASA is currently upgrading ground stations utilized in the backup system for communicating with the International Space Station (ISS), the U.S. space agency said in an April 24, 2018, news release.