NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland invites the press and social media to participate in a hands-on Technology Day on Friday, November 14.
During the day, NASA will be demonstrating emerging technologies that will enable scientists to do more science more cost-effectively. Attendees will be able to engage with researchers demonstrating an advanced space navigation and exploration instrument called NICER/SEXTANT instrument; X-ray communications technologies; a spectrometer-on-a-chip; and an ion mass spectrometer payload on the NASA’s new Dellingr CubeSat.
Participants also will tour NASA Goddard laboratories where new instruments and capabilities are being developed that can take advantage of existing platforms, such as the International Space Station National Laboratory and technologies such as CubeSats, paving the way for lower cost experiments and smaller missions, with potentially more rapid access to space.
The event also will highlight the upcoming launch of NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), an instrument that will demonstrate for the first time three-wavelength optical (lidar) systems for measuring clouds and small particles from space. The tour will include Goddard’s Servicing Technology Center, the Space Weather Laboratory, and the High Bay Clean Room — all state-of-the-art facilities.
Attendance for the event is limited due to space availability. To apply for credentials, visit: http://socialforms.nasa.gov/goddard-hands-on-technology
The deadline for non-U.S. citizens to sign up is 10 a.m. ET, Thursday, Oct. 30. (Please note your citizenship on the form in ‘notes’). U.S. citizens must register by 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday Nov 5. All applications will be reviewed and invitations to attend will be sent no later than 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, November 6.
Cynthia O’Carroll
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
(410) 507-0958