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| 2012-01-31 15:32:59 |
- (Computer & Information Sciences)
- (Communications)
The public web presence of the NASA/Goddard Sciences and Exploration Directorate (SED) consists of more than 600 websites, covering spacecraft missions, instrument science and engineering, research projects, and a variety of other topics. Interns are needed to work with a team of Web developers, content producers, editors, and database programmers to upgrade and update the SED's extensive catalog of websites, some dating back a decade or more.
Depending on sites selected for reworking, interns may be asked to 1) Apply new page templates to create a modern "look and feel" for existing legacy content; 2) Work with the Science Writer and Editor-in-Chief to enhance and update text, graphics, and links; and 3) Renovate inadequate or ineffective site navigation.
In addition, interns who would like to gain experience with digital media will have the opportunity to work with the Science Writer to create original Web content, including videos and blog posts, about scientific activities at Goddard.
Comments:
Candidates for the internship can be at any academic level or discipline, as long as they have hands-on HTML experience and an ability to learn new skills rapidly and work independently. Future Computer Science and Information Technology majors are an especially good fit for this position, but any interested candidate with relevant skills is encouraged to apply. We can provide computers and office space.
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| 2012-01-31 14:42:38 |
- (Space Science (Astronomy) - Heliophysics-Magnetospheric Physics)
- (Space Science (Astronomy) - Heliophysics-Solar Wind and Magnetosphere Physics)
This project involves using solar wind and geomagnetic observations to characterize different states of the magnetosphere during geomagnetic storm/substorm and "sawtooth event" intervals. The global state of the magnetosphere changes in response to the variable input of the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). But how the magnetosphere responds to a given set of solar wind and IMF driving conditions may also depend on the prevailing magnetospheric conditions or configurations (as a result of past history of solar wind/IMF input) and the response times of various processes. For this project, the student(s) will exercise existing data archives to search, select and download magnetospheric observations associated with specific magnetospheric phenomena, such as geomagnetic storms, substorms or sawtooth events, and categorize those observations by magnetospheric state parameters. The student(s) will input and organize all the data and pertinent information (e.g., documentation) into an electronic database for further analysis, using EXCEL, Mathematica, or (if the students choose to) application programming.
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| 2012-01-31 14:01:22 |
- (Business - Human Resources)
- (Engineering)
STEP UP offers 8 week internships at Wallops Flight Facility. Interns
may work in engineering, science, finance, or business areas. Students
have the opportunity to work side by side with NASA Scientists,
Engineers, and Professionals to enhance their skills. Please see our
website to see the kind of work we do.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/home/index.html
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| 2012-01-31 13:48:42 |
- (Engineering - Optics)
- (Space Science (Astronomy) - Astrophysics-Exoplanets and Debris Disks)
The field of Physical Optics deals with light in terms of waves and how they produce interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which geometrical optics ignores. Many NASA astrophysics missions including exoplanet mission use occultation masks to block the light from the central star and identify the orbiting planet. The design and development of these masks employ Physical Optics to suppress the central star light. The chosen intern for this project will learn the basics of Physical Optics and modeling of the light propagation through free-space. He/She will use the Matlab to model occultation mask of NASA missions.
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| 2012-01-31 13:31:59 |
- (Engineering - Optics)
- (Computer & Information Sciences)
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared telescope with a primary mirror that is 6.5-meters in diameter. The project is working to a 2018 launch date. The JWST will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System. More information on this observatory is available at www.jwst.nasa.gov. As part of the JWST team, the student will work in the areas of computational optics and image-based phase retrieval. Depending on the student's interests & skill set, time can be spent:
(1) partaking in optics experiments, collecting and analyzing data, (2) developing tools for computer control of mechanical devices and digital cameras, (3) developing software for numerical analysis, possibly to run on graphics processors (GPU) using CUDA, or (4) developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for existing software. These different possibilities involve programming in MATLAB and C/C++, using CODE V or ZEMAX optical design software, and working with Linux, Mac, and Windows operating systems. Experience with any of these software tools or operating systems is not essential, but a benefit.
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| 2012-01-31 13:22:39 |
- (Engineering)
- (Engineering - Integraton & Test-Space Simulation Testing)
The student will receive hands-on experience in space environment testing with this opportunity to plan and execute thermal vacuum tests for the Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS), a 4-spacecraft mission that will explore magnetic reconnection through studying the Earth's magnetosphere. Magnetic reconnection is a little-understood process by which magnetic energy is released in the form of heat and charged particle kinetic energy when magnetic fields cross and reconnect. Through studying this process in space, scientists will gain a better understanding of solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other phenomena that affect Earth-orbiting spacecrafts and power grids on Earth.
Thermal vacuum testing is critical to ensuring a successful mission. The student will learn about how deep space flight hardware is qualified under simulated space conditions in thermal vacuum chambers. They will understand the facility capabilities, including the use of the chamber shrouds, gaseous and liquid nitrogen, heater circuits, cryopanels, temperature sensors, and thermoelectric quartz crystal microbalances (TQCMs) to create and monitor the environment to which the hardware is exposed. They will apply this knowledge to develop the thermal vacuum tests for MMS, which will require gathering the test requirements and formulating detailed test procedures used for carrying out the tests in the lab.
The student will take ownership of creating tests that will (1) cycle flight hardware at the hot and cold temperature extremes that the MMS spacecraft will experience in orbit, and (2) bake-out the hardware to achieve cleanliness requirements.
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| 2012-01-31 13:15:12 |
- (Engineering - Aerospace-Flight Dynamics)
- (Engineering - Mechanical-Fluid or Structural Dynamics)
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is one of the missions under the Earth Science Program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The purpose of the DSCOVR mission is to predict space weather, solar wind, and geomagnetic storms critical to the nation’s power and transportation industries. This is a unique mission involving refurbishment of an already-built satellite at NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center.
The student will be responsible for organizing technical data on flight propulsion system components and creating propulsion subsystem design documents that will help verify the propulsion subsystem is prepared for launch.
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| 2012-01-31 13:11:30 |
- (Engineering - Electrical/Electronics-Radio Frequency (RF))
- (Engineering - Electrical/Electronics-Controls)
This high school project is reserved for a senior or rising senior who is interested in pursuing a degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering (EE) or Electrical-Computer Engineering (ECE) at an acredited university within the next year, pending approval of the Code 568 branch head.
The student will need to be trustworthy and self motivated. The skills to be used and developed are in electronics, microcontrollers, interface circuits, radio, Windows OS, programming and basic test equipment.
The tasks available will be to (1) explore additional programming options and capabilities using the new PICAXE-08M2 microcontroller on the PICetSat I module (see http://simsat.net/carrollsat/), (2) work to obtain one's Amateur Radio license for all the benefits this reaps near and far, (3) explore USB-to-Serial conversion as a means to program an onboard PICAXE and ATMEGA microcontroller and write a tutorial (or "how to") for peers, (4) evaluate Code Reader software (e.g., CwGet, MixW, FLdigi) and write a Consumer Reports-like article for peers, (5) support I&T phases (e.g., encapsulation, ground station setup, or calibration of sensors) of flight modules, (6) assist Code 568 university student interns as needed, or (7) any number of other duties as assigned.
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| 2012-01-31 13:11:22 |
- (Space Science (Astronomy) - Planetary Science-Comparative Planetology)
- (Space Science (Astronomy) - Planetary Science-Geodynamics)
The Cassini spacecraft, orbiting Saturn, has been returning
data about its icy satellites. One instrument in particular the Composite
Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) observes these targets in the infrared spectral
region. This data provides among other things the temperature of the
surfaces of the icy satellites.
Interpretation of this data allows us to study the thermal properties of
a target’s surface.
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| 2012-01-31 13:06:24 |
- (Engineering - Aerospace-Flight Dynamics)
- (Space Science (Astronomy) - Astrophysics-Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and Black Hole Theory)
The mentor, Steve Leete, is a mission systems engineering supporting the Astrophysics Project Division of NASA Goddard, working primarily on studies of (1) Gravitational Wave measurements from space, (2) an infrared spectrometer to measure distant galaxies from a cryogenic observatory built by Japan, and (3) various options at the Hubble Space Telescope's end of mission. Depending on the work at hand and the student's interest, the project would consist of a portion of one of these three efforts.
Gravitational wave measurement involves making exquisitely precise measurement of the distance between two or more satellites which are very far apart, and the more physics the student has studied, the better. The spectrometer involves a type of exotic device called an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR), a difraction grating to spread out the light frequencies, and super-cold (40 mK) detectors to measure the light. Again, lots of physics and special areas of engineering. The HST end of mission involves designing spacecraft to autonomously rendezvous and either grapple or dock to the telescope, and fire rockets to either move it to a higher orbit or de-orbit it. This is more of an aerospace engineering design study.
There is a possibility that a proposal will win for Goddard to build a vegetation lidar instrument to go on the ISS, in which case the mentor will switch jobs and be doing that instead. So, the student should be flexible and prepared, to instead of working on astrophysics concept studies, to work on an Earth science flight project, with details to be determined.
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