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The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Washington, D.C., in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 1959, as NASA's first space flight center, GSFC employs about 10,000 civil servants and contractors.
Date and time Rocket Flight number Launch site LSP; Payload (⚀ = CubeSat) Operator Orbit Function Decay (UTC) Outcome Remarks Q1 (TBD) [43] [44] Ariane 6: Kourou ELA-4: Arianespace: MetOp-SG B2 EUMETSAT: Low Earth Meteorology Q3 (TBD) [2] TBA: TBA: TBA: Sentinel-3 NG TOPO A ESA: Low Earth Earth observation Sentinel-3 Next Generation ...
Roman Space Telescope's spacecraft bus at Goddard Space Flight Center, September 2024. On 2 March 2020, NASA announced that it had approved WFIRST to proceed to implementation, with an expected development cost of US$3.2 billion and a maximum total cost of US$3.934 billion, including the coronagraph and five years of mission science operations ...
This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
"STDN User's Manual" - Goddard Space Flight Center, (NASA-TM-X-72932) STDN User's Manual N75-78163, Baseline Document (NASA) 124 pages, UNCLAS 00/98 03939; GSFC X-202067-26 William R. Corliss (1967). Evolution of the Satellite Tracking And Data Acquisition Network (STADAN). NASA CR-140390 - William R. Corliss (June 1974). Histories of the Space ...
Date (UTC) Spacecraft Event Remarks 8 January BepiColombo: Sixth gravity assist at Mercury Success 13 February Blue Ghost Mission 1: Lunar orbit insertion Success [13] 14 February Hakuto-R Mission 2: Lunar flyby This flyby placed the lander into a low-energy ballistic transfer orbit for capture into lunar orbit in mid-May. [14] 18 February ...
Goddard Space Flight Center: Suborbital Geospace science First of two launches 1 June [220] Black Brant IX: Wallops Flight Facility: NASA: Dynamo-3 Goddard Space Flight Center: Suborbital Geospace science Second of two launches H1 2026 (TBD) [224] Tronador II-70: Manuel Belgrano Space Center: CONAE: CONAE: Low Earth: Flight test Maiden flight ...
Date (GMT) Spacecraft Event Remarks 28 January: Ranger 3: Flyby of the Moon: Failed impactor, closest approach: 36,793 kilometres (22,862 mi) 26 April: Ranger 4: Lunar impact: Impacted far side, no data returned 21 October: Ranger 5: Flyby of the Moon: Failed impactor, closest approach: 724 kilometres (450 mi) 14 December: Mariner 2: Flyby of Venus