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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

HQ Greenbelt

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center develops spacecraft, scientific instruments and technologies for Earth, solar-system and astrophysics research.

Research labScientific space instruments
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About NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Greenbelt, Maryland, complex combines scientists, engineers, instrument-development teams and environmental-test capabilities. The center’s work includes telescope systems, Earth and solar observations, spacecraft communications and mission operations. NASA identifies Hubble operations and James Webb Space Telescope development and testing among its major contributions. Goddard also manages additional installations, so the Greenbelt entry is a principal campus rather than a complete facility inventory. It is a NASA field center with federal staff and contractor support; its scientific mission portfolio is not a commercial defense product catalog.

Institution
NASA field center
Sponsor
NASA
Operator
NASA

Capabilities1

  • Scientific space instruments
    Researcher
    Public research or engineering capability; no program-wide maturity or military deployment inferred.
    —Confirmed

Maturity and TRL describe this organization's work; the field-wide maturity is on each technology's page.

Supply Chain1 facility

Facilities1

  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center primary campus
    Lab · Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
    Operating
    Confirmed

Hiring Observations

NASA civil-service hiring guidance; vacancies are posted through USAJOBS and are agency-wide ↗

Use the official careers site for current openings and application requirements.

Sources2

Technologies1

  1. 1
    Government recordAbout Goddard - NASA

    Supports Facility, Organization, Organization technology

    “Goddard engineers construct sensitive instruments”

Supply chain1

  1. 2
    Government recordGoddard Space Flight Center - NASA

    Supports Facility, Organization

    “Greenbelt”

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