Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), located in Greenbelt, Maryland, is a major NASA space research laboratory and was NASA's first space flight complex. As the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the United States, GSFC is dedicated to increasing knowledge of Earth, the solar system, and the universe through space-based observations. GSFC manages and has played key roles in hundreds of NASA missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. They also manage communications between mission control and orbiting astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA Goddard has found some companies won't work with it due to perceived cumbersome mission assurance requirements.
The nine NASA centers that received independent assessments from The Aerospace Corp. under the 2011 contracts include NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, Glenn Research Center, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Stennis Space Center, and NASA Langley Research Center.
Franklin Robinson from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will test a cooling solution in his Flow Boiling in Microgap Coolers experiment.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center spent nearly a decade developing and testing tools and sensors to repair and refuel satellites that were not designed for servicing in preparation for Restore-L.
SSL is working with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to refuel the Landsat 7 Earth-observation satellite.