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The Fiber Optic Sensing System team includes in the front from left Nick Finks, Ryan Warner, Patrick Chan and Paul...
Shideh Naderi works on designing the electronics for the next generation Fiber Optic Sensing System.
Patrick Chan demonstrates one way that the Fiber Optic Sensing System is used by bending a fiber with a 3D...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, back-end imager optics. This picture shows the imager optics...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F-18 jet...
Dave Brennen, an electronics technician, installing the optical system under the belly of the PC-12 aircraft that...
This illustration depicts a concept for operation of an optical communications system on NASA Mars...
NASA research engineer Jonathan Lopez secures a Compact Fiber Optic Sensing System unit, also known as a FOSS Rocket...
How do you measure a cloud? Tim Bencic does it with lasers. The NASA Glenn engineer invented a tomography system for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A worker calibrates a tracking telescope, part of the Distant Object Attitude...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers calibrate a tracking telescope, part of the Distant Object Attitude Measurement...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers calibrate a tracking telescope, part of the Distant Object Attitude Measurement...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A worker calibrates a tracking telescope, part of the Distant Object Attitude...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Workers calibrate a tracking telescope, part of the Distant Object Attitude Measurement...
Jonathan Lopez works on a hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in...
Jonathan Lopez and Allen Parker confer on the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensor System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...
Jonathan Lopez prepares the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the Environmental...
Jonathan Lopez prepares the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the Environmental...
Jonathan Lopez and Nathan Rick prepare the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the...
This image was taken by the Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System, Rosetta main onboard...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...