Just outside Washington, D.C., Goddard is home to hundreds of scientific missions. We operate Hubble. We manage communications between mission control and astronauts aboard the International Space Station. our scientists stare into the Sun, grind up meteorites for signs of life's building blocks, look into the farthest reaches of space, and untangle the mysteries of our own changing world. Goddard engineers construct sensitive instruments, build telescopes that peer into the cosmos, and operate the test chambers that ensure those satellites' survival.
Enjoy some of the highlights from our 2018 trip around the Sun!
An observational technique first proposed more
than four decades ago to measure three important
processes necessary for the formation of the solar
wind — the source of disturbances in Earth’s upper
atmosphere — will be demonstrated for the first
time next year. Goddard heliophysicists Nat Gopalswamy and Jeff
Newmark plan to demonstrate BITSE — short for
the Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature
and Speed of Electrons in the corona — aboard
a high-altitude scientific balloon from Ft. Sumner,
New Mexico, next fall. BITSE will detect the density,
temperature, and speed of electrons in the corona. The story appears starting on page 7 in Goddard's "Cutting Edge" technology magazine.
Goddard scientists Avi Mandell and Elisa Quintana are among the scientists participating in the Sellers Exoplanet
Environment Collaboration, a cross-disciplinary research effort named after the late Piers Sellers.
The collaboration is now funding 16 cross-disciplinary research teams that are working with already-existing
analytical tools, such as 3-D general-circulation and stellar-outflow models, to see how they could be adapted or
modified to run simulations that would advance exoplanet science. The story runs in Goddard's technology magazine, "Cutting Edge" starting on page 13.
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Researchers in the Sciences and Exploration Directorate work with engineers, computer programmers, technologists, and other team members to develop the cutting-edge technology needed for space-based research. Instruments are also deployed on aircraft, balloons, and Earth's surface.
The Directorate's researchers share their findings and data with the scientific community. Education and Public Outreach programs explain the science to students and the general public.
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An observational technique first proposed more
than four decades ago to measure three important
processes necessary for the formation of the solar
wind — the source of disturbances in Earth’s upper
atmosphere — will be demonstrated for the first
time next year. Goddard heliophysicists Nat Gopalswamy and Jeff
Newmark plan to demonstrate BITSE — short for
the Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature
and Speed of Electrons in the corona — aboard
a high-altitude scientific balloon from Ft. Sumner,
New Mexico, next fall. BITSE will detect the density,
temperature, and speed of electrons in the corona. The story appears starting on page 7 in Goddard's 
Goddard scientists Avi Mandell and Elisa Quintana are among the scientists participating in the Sellers Exoplanet
Environment Collaboration, a cross-disciplinary research effort named after the late Piers Sellers.
The collaboration is now funding 16 cross-disciplinary research teams that are working with already-existing
analytical tools, such as 3-D general-circulation and stellar-outflow models, to see how they could be adapted or
modified to run simulations that would advance exoplanet science. The story runs in 
