For Researchers, Code 600
Sciences and Exploration Directorate - Tech Facilities
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Hours of Operation: 9-5 M-F
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Contact:
CURTIS E ODELL
- High Bay facility (40' X 50' in size) with a high hook
height overhead crane and "pickup truck level" loading dock. Currently home to
the InFOCuS hard X-ray focusing optics telescope which is being rebuilt and
tested in preparation for a balloon flight in 2013.
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Hours of Operation: M-F, 8am-6pm
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Contact:
JAMES J BUTLER
- The Code 614.4 Calibration Facility is comprised of three laboratories: the Radiometric Calibration Laboratory (RCL), the Diffuser Calibration Laboratory (DCL), and the Calibration Engineering Development Laboratory (CEDL). The RCL and DCL are class 10,000 cleanroom laboratories while the CEDL is a non-cleanroom laboratory. The RCL maintains instrumentation and NIST-traceable calibrated sources to fully calibrate, characterize, monitor, and assess the radiometric performance of satellite-, aircraft-, and ground-based remote sensing instrumentation. The DCL houses a unique, state-of-the-art, complete out-of-plane optical scatterometer capable of measuring the bi-directional scatter distribution function (BSDF) of transmissive or reflective, specular or diffuse optical elements and surfaces in support of flight and non-flight projects. Lastly, the CEDL not only provides customer instrument calibration services but also designs, fabricates, develops, and tests new calibration instrumentation and new measurement methodologies before cleanroom deployment in the RCL and DCL.
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Hours of Operation: 6am - 6pm
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Contact:
MATTHEW J MCGILL
Phone: 301.614.6283
- Instrument assembly and optical alignment facility
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Contact:
REGGIE LESTER HUDSON
Phone: (301) 286-9631
- The Cosmic Ice Laboratory's scientists conduct research into the chemical and physical properties of icy bodies such as Europa (shown), comets, and interstellar matter.
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Hours of Operation: 8am - 5pm
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Contact:
GERALD M HEYMSFIELD
Phone: 301.614.6369
- The laboratory is used to develop and maintain cloud and precipitation radars for the NASA high-altitude aircraft. The lab is home for the EDOP, CRS, HIWRAP, and EXRAD radars. It also houses RF test equipment, radar waveguide components, and other unique facilities such as a small machine shop and a thermal vacuum chamber that are required for building, calibrating, and testing the radars for high-altitude operation.
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Contact:
THEODOR KOSTIUK
Phone: (301) 286-8431
- Goddard's Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy Laboratory builds and uses instruments at ground-based scientific facilities to study planetary atmospheres at exceptionally high spectral resolution.
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Hours of Operation: 8am - 6 pm (w/ occasional nights)
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Contact:
ELLSWORTH J WELTON
Phone: 301.614.6289
- This facility is the primary calibration-validation laboratory for Micro-Pulse Lidar systems and other small lidars used within MPLNET. The facility contains the Small Lidar Advanced Measurements (SLAM) collimator, which has optical alignment equipment, lasers, and electronics support to enable the test and evaluation of any type of MPL system and other small lidars, and can support the reconstruction and refurbishment of lidars. In addition to a variety of optical analysis equipment, this facility includes the support components for lidar sub-assemblies, including maintaining a stock of opto-mechanical replacement components (mounts, filters, laser diodes, detectors, fibers, etc.) as well tools needed for laboratory and in-field work. Our facility also has a roof-hatch, which can be opened to obtain test measurements from the atmosphere. In addition to SLAM, we have a facility on the roof composed of four lidar enclosures and a permanent trailer, all capable of providing continuous environmentally controlled lidar operations. The roof facility includes our permanent GSFC MPLNET site, which serves as the calibration reference standard for all lidars in the network.
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Contact:
LYNN ALAN PARNELL
Phone: 301-286-9120
- NCCS (Code 606.2) offers an integrated set of supercomputing, visualization, and data interaction technologies to enhance NASA capabilities in weather and climate prediction. It serves hundreds of users at Goddard, including the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, other NASA centers, laboratories, and universities across the U.S. The Climate Computing Facility includes the "Discover" supercomputer, a massive data archive, a new data management system, and services for distributing simulation data to users and the broader climate research community.
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Contact:
ELLEN M SALMON
- As part of expanded NCCS (Code 606.2) data analysis and visualization capabilities, the Data Exploration Theater features a 17- by 6-foot multi-screen visualization wall for showing high-definition movies and interactive visualizations of simulation results. In total, the visualization wall has nearly 14 million pixels. The wall can display a single visualization across all 15 screens or up to 15 or more visualizations at once for comparison.
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Hours of Operation: 9am - 5pm (w/ other hours as required)
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Contact:
DAVID N WHITEMAN
Phone: 301.614.6773
- Instrumentation includes multi-wavelength Raman lidar and instrumentation for characterizing lidar components including telescopes, ancillary optics and data acquisition systems.
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Hours of Operation: 9am - 5pm
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Contact:
THOMAS ALLEN NEUMANN
Phone: 301.614.5899
- The SIRF contains a walk-in environmental chamber, chest freezer, and a range of snow and ice field and laboratory instrumentation, including data loggers, snow sieves, chiller bath, ice cores, snow samples, and field research clothing (boots, coats, sleeping bags, etc.).
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Hours of Operation: 9am - 5pm
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Contact:
BRUCE M GENTRY
Phone: 301.614.6241
- The laboratory is an optical laboratory with 3 optical tables, a roof hatch to access the atmosphere and a full range of laser and optical test instrumentation. The lab is used to evaluate new lidar techniques and technologies developed for Doppler lidar wind measurement from ground, air and space platforms. This includes development of new instrumentation and alignment, calibration and maintenance of our field instruments, GLOW (ground based) and TWiLiTE (airborne) Doppler lidar systems.
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Contact:
Kai-Wing Chan
- At the Mirror Laboratory in the ASD X-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, we research and develop mirror systems for astronomical X-ray telescopes. Thin-foil X-ray optics are pioneered and developed in the laboratory. These X-ray mirrors provide light-weight, broad band and low cost telescopes for astronomical X-ray imaging.
