The Ames Research Center (ARC), a major NASA research facility in California's Silicon Valley, plays a crucial role in many NASA missions. As one of NASA's ten field centers, Ames conducts research and develops technologies for space exploration, aeronautics, and information technology. It is a leader in astrobiology, small satellites, robotic lunar exploration, and the search for habitable planets, contributing to missions like Kepler and SOFIA. NASA Ames also develops advanced supercomputing, intelligent systems, and thermal protection for various space programs.
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NASA is providing access to supercomputers at NASA Ames Research Center for COVID-19 research as part of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium.
At the Ames Research Center in California, even mission-essential personnel are barred from accessing the center due to a shelter in place order.
Ames Research Center rescinded previous approvals for people to work on-site, limited on-site access to personnel needed for the center’s safety and security, and instituted mandatory telework through at least 2020-04-07.
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.
SpaceX signed a Space Act Agreement with Ames Research Center in June 2018 to support work on thermal protection systems for its next-generation launch system then known as BFR.
In September, the Space Rapid Capabilities Office, working with NASA Ames Research Center’s small spacecraft prototyping office, awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation a $119,000,000 contract to develop a satellite to gather cloud and theater imagery until the service finds a long-term solution.
NASA established the Security Operations Center at Ames Research Center in 2008 to deal with security threats to NASA IT systems.
ELaNa-20 is planned to carry 11 cubesats for universities and NASA’s Ames Research Center.
For the ORS-8 weather satellite, the Space RCO worked with NASA Ames Research Center’s small spacecraft prototyping office.
RIS4E is one of 13 teams within SSERVI, which is based and managed at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the formation of the new committee at an 2018-08-29 NASA Advisory Council meeting at the Ames Research Center in California.
The Aerospace Corp. built water-fueled thrusters for NASA Ames Research Center’s Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration mission launched in November 2017.