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John Williams visits NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He shows you the key facilities and equipment that are used to develop and prepare spacecraft that are to be used to study Earth, the sun, our solar system and the universe.
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Just outside Washington, Goddard is home to Hubble operations and a proving ground for the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope. Goddard manages communications between mission control and orbiting astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Goddard 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. Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center was established May 1, 1959, as NASA’s first space flight complex. Goddard and its several installations are critical in carrying out NASA’s missions of space exploration and scientific discovery.

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The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center, GSFC employs approximately 10,000 civil servants and contractors. Named in recognition of American rocket propulsion pioneer Robert H. Goddard, it is one of ten major NASA field centers.

Testing chambers and Manufacturing Buildings
The High Bay Cleanroom located in building 29 is the world's largest ISO 7 cleanroom with 1.3 million cubic feet (37,000 m3) of space. Vacuum chambers in adjacent buildings 10 and 7 can be chilled or heated to ±200 °C (392 °F). Adjacent building 15 houses the High Capacity Centrifuge which is capable of generating 30 G on up to a 2.3-tonne (2.5-short-ton) load

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has managed or played key roles in hundreds of NASA missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Landsat satellites, the Parker Solar Probe and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) network.

It is the nation's largest organization of space scientists and engineers, according to the agency's website. With a main campus just northeast of Washington, D.C., in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The center has a special focus on Earth observations, which has allowed it to track climate change from orbit, and it also manages numerous instruments and missions across the solar system.

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What Makes the Clean Room So Clean?
When you picture NASA’s most important creations, you probably think of a satellite, telescope, or maybe a rover. But what about the room they’re made in? Believe it or not, the room itself where these instruments are put together—a clean room—is pretty special.

A clean room is a space that protects technology from contamination. This is especially important when sending very sensitive items into space that even small particles could interfere with.

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Its mission: To ensure that every craft is space-ready.

In order to meet flight spacecraft qualifications, a craft must be able to operate in three high-stress environments: the trauma of launch, the vacuum of space, and the electromagnetism from both background radiation and the craft itself. To prove their mettle, every component must endure a series of brutal tests, from surviving temperature swings of hundreds of degrees to holding together under the gravitational force of a car crash.

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The GPM Core Observatory undergoing centrifuge testing at Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA technicians spun the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite up to just over 10 RPM in Goddard Space Flight Center’s High-Capacity Centrifuge facility March 31. At that speed, the spin exerted a lateral pressure of 2.4 G’s, or 2.4 times the force of gravity on the satellite.

Spin tests such as these are used to determine whether the forces of launch could adversely affect hardware we put into space, and to test spacecraft chassis design.

In this case, a combination of flight hardware parts and the so-called mass model were spun. The mass model simulates the final size, shape and weight distribution of the satellite and it’s component sensors, fuel, maneuvering thrusters, processing and control equipment.