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National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Mission Operations Center (MOC) and Mission
Operations Support, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
- Design and Development of the Ground Command & Control System and provide the Spacecraft
- Operations for the GLAST Mission to be Launched in Mid 2008
- Systems Engineering, Software Development, and S/C Mission Operations
- Design, Development and Integration of GOTS, COTS, and Custom Software for the MOC
- Development and Installation of the Mission Operations Center (MOC) at NASA/GSFC
- Engineering, Purchasing, and Integrating the Hardware into the MOC Facility
- All Levels of Testing to include Spacecraft Testing at the Naval Research Laboratory
- Training Plan and Training of the Spacecraft Operations Personnel
The GLAST mission is designed to Explore the Extreme Universe. It is a powerful space observatory that will:
- Explore the most extreme environments in the Universe, where nature harnesses energies far beyond anything possible on Earth.
- Search for signs of new laws of physics and what composes the mysterious Dark Matter.
- Explain how black holes accelerate immense jets of material to nearly light speed.
- Help crack the mysteries of the stupendously powerful explosions known as gamma-ray bursts.
- Answer long-standing questions across a broad range of topics, including solar flares, pulsars and the origin of cosmic rays.
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