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Mission Activities
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Bryan J. Mendez, Ph.D., Education and Public Outreach Specialist for the Center for Science Education in Berkley, CA, held a WISE EPO training session for SOI students. In his position, Mendez works to improve science education and literacy.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Capitol College was invited to tour NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. For more information and to view photos from the tour, click here.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
NASA released the WISE first light image today. This 8-second snapshot of a region near the Milky Way in the constellation Carina was taken shortly after the satellite ejected its cover. The "first light" picture shows thousands of stars and covers an area three times the size of the moon. Well over a million similar images will be taken by WISE to generate its all-sky atlas and catalog. The WISE survey will be done while the satellite continuously scans the sky, and an internal scan mirror counteracts the motion to create freeze-frame images. The team is working now to match the motions of the spacecraft and the scan mirror precisely.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Maconachy, Matsuzawa, and Gibbs
Takaaki Matsuzawa, deputy director of Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), visited Capitol College in December 2009 to tour the Space Operations Institute and learm more about the institute's partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the new Center for Space Science Education and Public Outreach.
Monday, December 14, 2009
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light. A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at 6:09 a.m. PST (9:09 a.m. EST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket deposited WISE into a polar orbit 326 miles above Earth. For more details on the WISE launch, view the full story here.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
In addition to their regular duties, some SOI interns also serve as WISE student ambassadors, reaching out to area high schools to talk about the WISE mission and their experience with WISE and the SOI. Yasir Tufail, a student ambassador from New York City, spoke with students about his experience working in the SOI and other opportunities to work on space missions.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Today, we had a visit from several WISE staff members:
- John Rackowicz, WISE JPL Engineer
- Hank Judd, WISE JPL Engineer
- Andrea Razzaghi, NASA GSFC WISE Mission Manager
- John Hughes, WISE Support Engineer
- Joel Peterman, WISE Support Engineer
The WISE mission will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe by studying the asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies. WISE is one of several satellite missions the SOI is a part of.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Dr. Hashima Hasan from NASA Headquarters, Dr. David T. Leisawitz, a WISE Mission Scientist, and Dr. Anne-Marie Novo-Gradac, a WISE Program Executive, toured the Space Operations Institute and visited with students responsible for operating the Backup Operations Mission Center at Capitol in preparation for the impending launch of the WISE satellite in December 2009.
