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After removal from the handling container physical science technician, Kristen Washington, performs an inspection of...
Optical engineer, Maurice Stancil, performs final optical alignment metrology measurements prior to the Ocean Color...
Optical technician, Timothy Madison, uses a theodolite to perform optical measurements on the Ocean Color Instrument...
Shideh Naderi works on designing the electronics for the next generation Fiber Optic Sensing System.
iss054e005568 (12-26-2017) --- View of the Made In Space Fiber Optics Locker installed in ExPRESS (Expedite the...
The Fiber Optic Sensing System team includes in the front from left Nick Finks, Ryan Warner, Patrick Chan and Paul...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver is shown at NASA's...
Closeup photo of an optical cube mounted to OSAM-1 hardware inside cleanroom at Goddard Space Flight Center,...
The ATLAS Optics Bench is lifted onto the ICESat-2 box structure in order to ensure a proper fit for future integration.
N-213 Laser Optics Laboratory - double exposed polaroid by Ken McAlister (engineer) 3-17-89 with Dana Lynch
An Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) optical lens is installed into the flight housing hardware for alignment...
iss054e005575 (12-26-2017) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Norishige Kanai poses for a photo...
Mechanical technician, Andrew Scharmann, installs a shim and inspects an optic on the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI)...
This graph depicts the increased signal quality possible with optical fibers made from ZBLAN, a family of...
Patrick Chan demonstrates one way that the Fiber Optic Sensing System is used by bending a fiber with a 3D...
NASA researcher Dr. Donald Frazier uses a blue laser shining through a quartz window into a special mix of chemicals...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Technology Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via...
Team members prepare for an optics test on the Advanced Baseline Imager, the primary optical instrument, on the...
With the lights out, team members perform an optics test on the Advanced Baseline Imager, the primary optical...
Team members prepare for an optics test on the Advanced Baseline Imager, the primary optical instrument, on the...
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration's flight laser transceiver can be easily...
Scarning electron microscope images of the surface of ZBLAN fibers pulled in microgravity (ug) and on Earth (1g)...
Fixing the "Fish" On July 19, 2014, Wayne Slade of Sequoia Scientific, and Allen Milligan of Oregon State...
Seaweed and Light A type of seaweed called Sargassum, common in the Sargasso Sea, floats by an instrument deployed...