Science Projects
The dedicated team at the Science Projects Branch provides oversight and support to numerous, cutting-edge, research projects and science teams across the Division. In addition to the projects listed below, they also manage the Chandra X-ray Observatory Program.
Earth Science
- SERVIR
Astrophysics
- Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
- Lynx X-ray Observatory
Optical Telescopes
- Predictive Thermal Control (PTC)
- Segmented Mirror Technology Program (SMPT)
Heliophysics
- Full sun Ultraviolet Rocket Spectrometer (FURST),
- Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer, (MaGIXS)
- Hinode
- Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT)
- Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP)
- Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP 2)
- High-Resolution Coronal imager (Hi-C) Flare
The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) completed its 30-day commissioning. Since IXPE launched on 12/9/21, IXPE mission operations and the MSFC mission support team have successfully completed spacecraft commissioning (s/c) and all s/c subsystems are nominal. In addition, IXPE operations …
IXPE successfully launched the early morning of 12/09/21. Hundreds of guests traveled to attend launch. Upon check-in at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Visitor Complex, guests received a launch gift bag, which included items such as an IXPE lapel pin, mission …
Chandra issued an image release on 12/02/21, “Planetary Nebula, Misnamed But Not Misunderstood.” A new collection of planetary nebulas, containing X-rays from Chandra and optical light from Hubble, is available. A planetary nebula is a phase that stars like our …
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Chandra issued a press release on 12/09/21, “Mini-Jet Found Near Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole”. Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges of a blowtorch-like jet dating …
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Efforts to move the aging/primary GBM data server hardware from the National Space Science and Technology Center onto the main campus of Marshall Space Flight Center have come to fruition. The physical move was completed by MITS personnel on 12/07/21. …
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