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
ST Personnel were invited to participate in the Alabama Space Grant Consortium’s (ASGC) review of their ABEX proposal. The virtual review/discussion was held on 11/17/21 and the ST civil service invitees were Casa (Partnerships and Formulation Office), Stephen Elrod (ST14) …
Marshall Space Flight Center and HQ Public Affairs Office released the IXPE science feature and mission overview video on NASA social media accounts in on 12/9/21. The link to IXPE mission overview release is: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ixpe/index.html. The new feature was released …
Chandra issued an image and press release on 11/22/21, “KPD 00005+5106: Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick.” A team of scientists used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton to investigate some unusual X-ray activity of a white dwarf star. …
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory Program conducted a two day semi-annual Engineering review on 11/9-10/21, via Google Meet. The Flight Operations Team technical subsystem engineers presented health and status data for each of the subsystems to Chandra engineers and management at …
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The Brazilian Technical Institute for Aeronautics (ITA) continues Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) testing utilizing the engineering model (EM), currently working on ADCS software (SW) v1.5. They have started the ADCS SW and On-Board Data Handling (OBDH) SW integration …
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