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Rocco Petrone - Director of the NASA #39;s Marshall Space Flight Center
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Mikulski Announces Federal Funding to Support Next Steps of James Webb Space Telescope Construction
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Reinventing Space Flight
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) The world's most powerful rocket undergoes design testing in Huntsville.

NASA'S new Space Launch System, designed for deep space exploration, has engines strong enough to create dangerously powerful noise.

When you are designing the world's most powerful rocket ever there are a million different things to think about, said Jeremy Kenny, Acoustic Engineer in a Marshall Space Flight Center interview.

Marshall Space Flight Center has developed a way to test an acoustic sound suppression system on a 5% scale model of the rocket.

The very loud sound can be very damaging both to the rocket vehicle and the crew. Our scale model rocket system is amazing, Acoustic Engineer, Janice Houston said.

The system could make takeoff safer, but first engineers had to make sure they could safely simulate such a powerful rocket launch.

During my design I had to hold approximately 25,000 pounds of thrust in place to make sure it doesn't fly away and injure somebody, said Mechanical Design Engineer, Micah Embry.

Once that design was made, the scale model could be ignited for five seconds at a time to test the sound suppression system through use of microphones located on the rocket.

Marshall Space Flight Center in coordination with other centers such as Langley and Kennedy space centers have designed this set up in order to answer the questions of; What are the lift off environments produced here in the vehicle? What are the lift off environments seen by the tower and mobile launch pad? What are the water sound suppression systems needed in order to mitigate these sound levels?, Kenny said.

According to Marshall Space Flight Center, water is the main component of the suppression system because it helps protect the rocket from damage caused by energy produced in takeoff. Marshall will be simulating the tests to collect data on how the suppressed levels of noise generated may affect the rocket and crew during liftoff. After testing is completed on the scale rocket, the system will be adjusted as needed and then tested on the actual rocket later this year.

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Several scientists from NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies, N.Y. received awards from the American Meteorological Society (AMS), American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Astronomical Society (AAS). Those scientists include Pawan K. Bhartia, the late Arthur Hou, David Rind, Warren Wiscombe, Spiro Antiochos, and Tom Duvall.

From the beginning of my career at NASA, I have been amazed by the incredible quality and passion of our scientists, said Michelle Thaller, assistant director for science communication and higher education, in the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at NASA Goddard. Sometimes we feel that the public doesnt view the Federal Government as a true innovator in science, and these awards confirm what we know about our friends and colleagues here: some of the worlds best scientists work for NASA.

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) society awards are presented at the Annual Meeting, specialized conferences, or other appropriate occasions during the year. The objective of AMS is to advance the atmospheric and related sciences, technologies, applications, and services for the benefit of society.

Pawan K. (P.K.) Bhartia, senior scientist at NASA Goddard was chosen to receive the American Meteorological Society 2014 Remote Sensing Prize. This prestigious award is granted biennially to individuals in recognition of advances in the science and technology of remote sensing, and application to knowledge of Earth, oceans, and atmosphere, and/or to the benefit of society. The citation for Bhartias award reads For scientific advances in the remote sensing of global ozone concentration and trends, and for developing new techniques for retrieving aerosol properties from space.

Arthur Hou (posthumously), project scientist for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) at NASA Goddard was elected a 2014 AMS Fellow. To be elected a Fellow of the AMS is a special tribute for those who have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period. This designation is conferred upon not more than 0.2% of all AMS members in any given year.

In July of 2013, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) announced its 2013 awardees, medalists and prize winners. The American Geophysical Union is dedicated to advancing the Earth and space sciences for the benefit of humanity through its scholarly publications, conferences, and outreach programs.

The AGU awards were presented at the Honors Tribute held during Fall meeting of the AGU, in San Francisco in December, 2013. These individuals are recognized for their breakthrough achievements in advancing Earth and space science and their outstanding contributions and service to the scientific community. Their passion, vision, creativity, and leadership have expanded scientific understanding, illuminated new research directions, and made Earth and space science thrilling, immediate, and relevant to audiences beyond as well as within the scientific community.

David Rind and Warren Wiscombe were named AGU Fellows. The AGU Fellows program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to Earth and space sciences as valued by their peers and vetted by section and focus group committees. This honor may be bestowed on only 0.1% of the membership in any given year.

David Rind is an Emeritus of NASAs Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Davids fields of interest include past and future climate changes, climate modeling, stratospheric processes, solar-climate studies, sea ice, land surface effects, remote sensing.

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Winners Of AMS, AGU And AAS Honors Announced By NASA

Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory announced today that it has delivered the final series of 35 thermal link and composite support structure assemblies to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for integration onto the James Webb Space Telescope. The SDL-built thermal links will help conduct heat away from the Webb Telescope's infrared instruments.

"Delivery of the Webb Telescope heat straps represents a significant milestone for both the Space Dynamics Lab and our NASA customer as they prepare final assembly, integration, and test for a 2018 planned launch," saidJed Hancock, director of civil space at the Space Dynamics Laboratory. "For decades, SDL and NASA have partnered on important scientific missions and we are pleased that this most recent achievement will help enable Webb to focus on the known, and unknown aspects of our universe."

The flexible nature of the thermal links provides a continuous conductance path across the interfaces between the elements of the satellites flight instruments, its support structure and external radiators, allowing for integration tolerances and dynamic movement during testing and launch. "The light weight thermal links are made from high purity aluminum foils and will maximize thermal conductance from the science instruments on JWST to their radiators that will allow each of the instruments to operate at desired temperatures," saidLorin Zollinger, SDL program manager. "We are pleased to have delivered this critical part of the Webb Telescope to NASA and look forward to the important images of our universe Webb will capture in the future."

A joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, the Webb Telescope will observe the most distant objects in the universe, provide images of the first galaxies formed and see unexplored planets around distant stars.

A unit of theUtah State UniversityResearch Foundation, SDL is one of 14 University Affiliated Research Centers in the nation. Charged with applying basic research to the technology challenges presented in the military and science arenas, SDL has developed revolutionary solutions that are changing the way the world collects and uses data. SDL's core competencies are electro-optical sensor systems, calibration, thermal management, reconnaissance systems, and small satellite technologies. Headquartered inLogan, Utah, SDL has operations inAlbuquerque, N.M.;Bedford, Mass.;Washington D.C.;Los Angeles, Calif.;Huntsville, Ala.;Colorado Springs, Colo.; andHouston, Texas.

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[ Watch The Video: 100 Points of Light: Behind the Webb ]

Rob Gutro, NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center The newest video in the Behind the Webb series, called 100 Points of Light takes viewers behind the scenes to understand what the Near Infrared Spectrograph or NIRSpec will do when it flies aboard the James Webb Space Telescope.

The video was produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute or STScI in Baltimore, Md. and takes viewers behind the scenes with engineers who are testing or creating the Webb telescopes components. The video was so named, because the NIRSpec can look at approximately 100 celestial objects at the same time.

In the 3 minute and 39 second video, STScI host Mary Estacion takes the viewer to NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Webb telescopes NIRSpec instrument was built at the EADS ASTRIUM facility in Munich, German and arrived by truck at NASA Goddard on Sept. 20, 2013.

Mary interviewed Dr. Pierre Ferruit, James Webb Space Telescope project scientist for the European Space Agency during his visit to NASA Goddard who explained what a spectrograph does. The NIRSpec was specially developed and constructed for the Webb telescope. It can take the light of one of these objects and divide it in its colors (into a spectrum), he said. This piece of information is what we call a spectrum and this is why NIRSPEC is called a spectrograph.

These spectra provide scientists with information about objects that can include chemical composition, temperature, mass, and the objects movement and distance.

But NIRSpec differs from existing space-based spectrographs because it is a multi-object spectrograph and it is designed to observe around 100 objects simultaneously. To make it possible, NASA Goddard scientists and engineers had to invent a new technology called a microshutter system to control how light enters the NIRSpec. The microshutter device is an array of thousands of microscopic windows that can be individually opened and closed from one observation to the next so that only the light from each particular object of interest is allowed to make its way through NIRSpec to be turned into spectra. The NIRSpec will be the first spectrograph in space that has this remarkable multi-object capability.

Mary also met with Ralf Maurer, Webb telescope NIRSpec Project Manager at EADS/Astrium, in Ottobrunn, Germany, who explained how the NIRSpec was being assembled there. In the video, viewers are given a detailed look at the actual NIRSpec instrument that will fly aboard the Webb telescope.

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