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Technicians fill SOFIA’s instrument with liquid nitrogen and helium to keep the detectors cold. The now retired...
Lead chemist Philip Howard pours liquid nitrogen into the Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer to cool the...
Sara Susca, deputy payload manager and payload systems engineer for the NASA's SPHEREx mission, looks up at one of...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Vertical Processing Facility look over the Near Infrared Camera and...
James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) has both a camera and a spectrograph that sees light in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Vertical Processing Facility oversee the installation of the NICMOS...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Vertical Processing Facility wheel a container with the NICMOS II...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The NICMOS II radiator is ready for checkout in the Vertical Processing Facility. The...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) Cooling System rests...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane in the Vertical Processing Facility lifts the shipping container...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A closeup view of the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS)...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Vertical Processing Facility test the Near Infrared Camera and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A crane in the Vertical Processing Facility lifts the Near Infrared Camera and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vertical Processing Facility, STS-109 Payload Commander John Grunsfeld checks...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers in the Vertical Processing Facility help guide the Near Infrared Camera and...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Vertical Processing Facility, workers help guide the Near Infrared Camera and...
The instrument enclosure for NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor on May 22, 2025, is seen in a clean room at the...
Alejandro Rodriguez Perez and Joe Thomes, members of the fiber optic & photonic team, configure the Ocean Color...
Part of one of the protective photon shields for NASA's SPHEREx telescope are shown here being assembled at Applied...
This artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects perhaps as large as the planet Pluto smashed...
In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 (SAEF-2), workers prepare to remove the High Energy Neutron...
In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, a Russian scientist (SAEF-2) looks over the High Energy...
A technician operates articulating equipment to rotate the Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) mission's...
In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2, a Russian scientist (SAEF-2) looks over the High Energy...