Fall 2022 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Chief Technologist Announces FY22 IRAD Innovator of the Year: Scott Hesh
   > Novel Platform Lofts Science Payloads to the Stratosphere
   > Innovating at SpeedOur World as a Model Exoplanet
2. Eye on Autonomous Navigation
   > Precision Location by Scanning the Horizon
   > Self-Guiding Spacecraft to Cross a Sea of Stars
3. An Artificial Intelligence for Seeing
4. Efficient, High-Resolution Infrared Cameras
5. Measuring Helium in the Exosphere
6. A Smaller, Simpler Mass Spectrometer for Exploration

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Summer 2022 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Goddard’s Innovations in Quantum Technology
2. Our World as a Model Exoplanet
3. Measuring Gravity – By the Atoms
4. Satellite Geodesy – Innovation Born at Goddard
5. Quantum Communications – Developing Capabilities for the Future
6. Growing Talent for Quantum Investigations
7. Quantum Dots Enable Spacecraft-as-Sensor Concept
8. Tiny, High-Powered Laser to Find Water on the Moon

  CuttingEdge – Vol 18 Issue 4 – Summer 2022

Spring 2022 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Orbiting Artificial Star Could Transform Ground-Based Observation
2. Photon Sieves Advance Toward a Solar Observatory Concept
3. Palm-Sized Laser with Out-of-This-World Uses
4. Goddard Laser with GEDI Heritage Bound for Titan
5. Seeking the Universe’s Baby Pics

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Winter 2022 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Persistence, Encouragement, Innovation Helped Amato Keep DAVINCI on Track
2. Space Weather Forecast – It’s Raining Neutrons
3. Dissecting the Lower Atmosphere Through Hyperspectral Imaging
4. Multi-Messenger Astronomy Made Easier
5. Zeroing in on Lunar Ice in New Ways
6. Catching up: 3D-Printed, Flexible Electronics Put to Work in X-ray Polarimeter

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Fall 2021 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. NASA Provides Laser for LISA Mission
2. Goddard Lab an Ideal Nursery for Lasers to Probe the Mysteries of the Cosmos
3. Small Satellite, Big Questions: CuPID CubeSat Provides New Perspectives on the Sun-Earth Boundary
4. Lunar IceCube to Detect Water on the Moon
5. Goddard Scientists Teach Algorithms to Detect Patterns in Data for Future Ocean World Studies
6. Converting Microwave Signals to Optics-on-a-Chip Makes for Light, Cool Instruments
7. Ultrafast Lasers Could Increase Accuracy of Mass Spectrometry

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Summer 2021 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Goddard Tech will help NASA Explore Earth’s Mysterious Twin with DAVINCI
2. Award-Winning Thermal Imager Captures Data for Agriculture and Wildfire Monitoring
3. Early Career Innovator: Bethany Theiling Finds Adaptation is Key
4. Laser Communications Realize Years of Innovation at Goddard
5. Goddard Scientist Looks to AI, Lensing to Find Masses of Free-Floating Planets
6. Small Mission to Shed New Light on Exoplanet Atmospheres
7. Adapted computer program pushes satellite navigation toward autonomy
8. Scientist Looks for Specific Energy Emissions to Identify Sources of Cosmic Positrons

CuttingEdge-Vol 17 issue 4 – Summer 2021

Spring 2021 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Eyes on Earth: Strategic Goddard Investments In Earth Observations Lay Groundwork for New Opportunities
2. Measuring Light Polarization Made Simple
3. Endowing Satellite Swarms With a Hive Mind
4. New AI Technology Could Speed up Fault Diagnosis Process in Spacecraft
5. Binary Black Hole Simulations Provide Blueprint for Future Observation

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Winter 2021 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Earth as Exoplanet
2. Goddard’s Core Flight Software Chosen for NASA’s Lunar Gateway
3. Uncooled Silicon Infrared Detectors Could Become a Hot Commodity
4. Engineers Apply Fuzzing to Root Out Software Bugs
5. Suspended Observations: Aeropods Wins Industry Recognition
6. Staring at the Sun, You’ve Gotta Wear (Sun)shades

CuttingEdge-Vol 17 issue 2 – Winter 2021

Fall 2020 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Chief Technologist Announces FY20 IRAD Innovator of the Year: Eftyhia Zesta
2. Meet the Innovator: From a ‘PhD in Digging’ to Fleets of Orbiting Magnetometers
3. Team Achievement: Heliophysics Investigations in Small Packages
4. Dennis Andrucyk: Nurturing Diversity to Deliver the Future, on Schedule
5. Miniaturized Lidar System Advanced for Next-Generation SmallSat Remote Sensing
6. Building an Adaptable, Self-Driving Navigation Guidance and Control
7. Goddard’s Maven of Tech Passes the Torch

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Summer 2020 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Innovating at Home
2. Heeding the Call: Goddard-Provided Instruments Among the First to Fly on Gateway
3. Goddard Performs Well in Explorer Program Competition
4. Goddard’s ANGEL Beacons Artemis’s Saving Grace
5. Foundations for the Future: Goddard Autonomous Technology to Drive Orbital Servicing
6. A Space-Faring SPIDER
7. Goddard Scientists Win Funding to Advance New Planetary Instruments
8. Semiconductor Manufacturing Techniques Employed for Gamma-Ray Detector
9. Tiny NASA Satellite Captures First Image of Clouds and Aerosols

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Spring 2020 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Special Report: The Technology We Take to Get Here
2. Pathfinding CubeSat Mission to Pick Up Where Dynamics Explorer Left Off
3. Twelfth Mission and Counting
4. Novel Technology Sets the Stage for a New Way to Monitor Earth
5. Another Blacker-than-Black Technology Pursued for Planet-Finding Missions

 
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Winter 2020 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Better than Reality: Scientific Discovery Enabled by 3-D Simulations
2. Proposed SETH Mission Could Pave the Way for Many SmallSat Firsts
3. Great Observatory Science from a Balloon?
4. NASA Launches In-Depth Snow Study — First in 30 Years
5. Goddard’s Contributions to Snow Study
6. An Architecture for SmallSat Off Roading
7. A Tiny New Instrument to Monitor Flora from Space
8. X-ray Navigation is Ready for the Next Level

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Fall 2019 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Chief Technologist Announces FY19 IRAD Innovator of the Year: William Zhang
2. Meet the Innovator: Subterranean Researcher Turned Mirror-Making Whiz
3. Microgap Technology Immune to Gravity Effects; Ready for Spaceflight
4. A Space First: Scientist to Demonstrate Next-Generation Microshutter Array
5. New Coating Technology Could Help Resolve Lunar Dust Challenge
6. Telecommunications Technology Tapped to Develop More Capable Spectrometer
7. Can BurstCube Detect Gamma-Ray Bursts and Talk with TDRS?
8. Early-Career NASA Innovator Experiments with Force Fields to Move Matter
9. New Simulation Technology Helps Determine Best Way to Measure Snow
10. Goddard Technologist Seeks a Better Prognosis for Spacecraft Lifespans

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Summer 2019 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Sounding Rocket Program: Where Discovery Begins
2. New X-Ray Optic Meets Ambitious Imaging Requirements; Demonstration Slated for 2021
3. NASA Technology That Enables X-ray Communications Could Also Save Lives
4. A GIANT Step Forward in Optical Navigation
5. Special Report: Emerging Technologies for Studying Earth’s Climate
6. 3-D Printed Coronagraph Created; Undergoing Testing

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Spring 2019 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Researchers Explore Artificial Intelligence
2. Goddard Team Teaches Algorithms to Identify Life
3. Team Advances Lunar GPS Receiver
4. Patent Awarded for World’s Largest Antenna
5. Mission-Saving Magnetometer Secures New Flight Opportunity
6. NASA Is Closer to Discovering What Lies Beneath Airless Bodiese
7. New Instrument Serendipitously Created for Measuring Ozone
8. First-of-a-Kind Instrument Slated for SnowEx Mission
9. Instrument Developed for Studies of Neptune and Uranus

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Winter 2019 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Planting More Than a Footprint
2. Special Report: Preparing for the Next Steps in Human Exploration
3. Goddard-Industry Team Creates and Demonstrates First Quantum Sensor for Satellite Gravimetry
4. NASA’s GEDI Now Gathering Forest Data; Instrument Serves as Poster Child for R&D
5. SNoOPI: A Flying Ace for Soil Moisture and Snow Measurements

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Fall 2018 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Office of the Chief Technologist Announces FY18 Innovators
2. Forty Years in the Making: Goddard Team to Fly New Coronagraph for Solar-Wind Studies
3. Teaching Machines to See: Algorithms Studied for Identifying Patterns in Data
4. Goddard Team Investigates Ultrafast Laser Machining for Spaceflight Applications
5. It Takes a Village: SEEC Program Seeks to Answer to Age-Old Question
6. Goddard Teams Study Probe-Class Missions

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Summer 2018 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Sowing Technology Seed Corn: Spotlight on Potentially Transformative Space Technologies
2. Goddard-Developed Coating Investigated for Protecting Smithsonian Specimens
3. Disruption Tolerant Networking to Demonstrate Internet in Space
4. Science on a Shoestring: Team Delivers Low-Cost Instrument for CubeSat Mission
5. Next-Generation Photodetector Camera to Deploy During Robotic Servicing Mission

CuttingEdge – Vol. 14 issue 4 – Summer 2018

Spring 2018 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Special Report: 2020 Decadal Survey for Astrophysics
2. Emerging Microgap Cooling Tech to be Tested Aboard Reusable Launch Vehicle
3. “Third Time’s a Charm”: Heliophysics Wins Pathfinding CubeSat Mission
4. XNAV Considered for CubeSat Mission and Human Exploration
5. Goddard Comes A Long Way: Four Teams Selected Under New Frontiers
6. Carbon-Nanotube Technology Eyed for Different Instrument Applications

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Winter 2018 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. NASA Plants the Flag on Galactic GPS
2. Optics Experts Poised to Topple a Planet-Finding Barrier
3. Bread Loaf-Sized Spacecraft Produces First 883-Gigahertz Global Ice-Cloud Map
4. High-Demand Technology Finds Home on BurstCube
5. Self-Driving Servicer Baselined for Restore-L Mission
6. NASA to Hold Second Satellite Servicing Technology Transfer Industry Day
7. Team Leverages Proven Technologies to Build NASA’s First Planetary Wind Lidar
8. Sciencecraft: The Future of NASA?

CuttingEdge – Vol. 14 issue 2 – Winter 2018

Fall 2017 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Mahmooda Sultana Selected as Goddard’s FY17 IRAD Innovator of the Year
2. Focus on Winning Mission Concepts
3. The Escape of the Atmosphere: MEME-X to Study Plasma Outflow
4. SpaceCube Family of Processors Expecting Addition to the Clan
5. Goddard Investigates Use of Medical-Type Scanners to Explore the Solar System
6. NASA-Developed Drone Aircraft Offer One-of-a-Kind Capabilities
7. Next-Generation Extraterrestrial Monitoring Stations Detailed

CuttingEdge – Vol. 14 issue 1 – Fall 2017

Summer 2017 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Dellingr Set to Launch in August
2. Team Passes Major Milestone for Characterizing Exoplanets
3. Funding Awarded to Advance Dual-CubeSat Mission to Study Lunar Swirls
4. Conceptual CubeSat Mission Focused on Solving Venusian Mystery
5. Technologist Develops Self-Calibrating Magnetometer
6. Special Report: The Goddard Fellows Innovation Challenge
7. Altered Realities: Six Virtual and Augmented Reality Pilots Started

CuttingEdge – Vol. 13, issue 4 – Summer 2017

Spring 2017 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Sweet 16: R&D Teams Fly Extraordinary Number of Payloads in 2017
2. Company to Build and Sell SpaceCube 2.0-Based Flight Processors
3. Goddard Team Takes on New Optical Challenge
4. The Art of Leverage: Scientist to Build Ocean Worlds Instrument
5. Special Report: Focus on New NASA Technology-Development Awards
6. Grizzly Becomes a Growler and Selected for Restore-L Mission

CuttingEdge – Vol.13, issue 3 – Spring 2017

Winter 2017 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Year in Review: Why We Do Technology
2. Scientist Will Zhang Proves Superiority of Silicon X-Ray Optics
3. Brains of the Operation: New Avionics System Developed
4. Raising the Curve: Team Advances SmallSat Reliability
5. Special Report: Out-There Space Technologies
6. Origami Inspires Shape-Shifting Radiator
7. Technologist Develops Quantum-Dot Spectrometer
8. G-LiHT to Inventory Alaskan Forests
9. Focus on Innovative Scientific Research: Scientists Investigate Link Between Solar Storms and Cetacean Strandings

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Fall 2016 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Chief Technologist Announces FY16 IRAD Innovators of the Year
2. Goddard’s Gravitational-Wave Group Enjoys a Very Good Year
3. SnowEx Challenges Sensing Techniques…“Until They Break”
4. New Instrument Created for Weather Forecasting
5. Personality Profile: As Seen on TV
6. New Instrument Could ‘Sniff’ for Life
7. Automated Tool for Calculating Trajectories Gets Better

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Summer 2016 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Goddard Develops Satellite Concept to Exploit Rideshare Opportunities
2. Next-Generation Photodetector Camera Studied for CapSat Application
3. New Rideshare Office Opens
4. Aircraft Radar Technology Investigated for Planetary Missions
5. Moth’s Eye Inspires Critical Component on SOFIA’s Newest Instrument
6. New CO2 Sounder Nearly Ready for Primetime
7. First-Ever Carbon-Nanotube Mirrors Eyed for CubeSat Telescope
8. Team Seeks Picometer Accuracy
9. Goddard Team Begins Testing New-Fangled Optic
10. Quest to Mature Planet-Finding Instruments Progresses

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Spring 2016 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Will PIPER Find It?
2. PIPER to Showcase Pioneering Technologies
3. Left Brain, Meet Right Brain: Engineer Moonlights at Maryland Art School
4. Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Measuring Impact of Earthquakes on Gravitational Field
5. Something Old Becomes New: 1960s-Era Tech Pursued for CubeSats
6. 3-D Printing Investigated for Building Electronic Assemblies
7. Team Competes for SOFIA Instrument Opportunity
8. Two Sounding-Rocket Missions to Explore Flying Atoms and Nanoflares
9. A Beautiful Mind: A Tribute to Richard G. Lyon

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Winter 2016 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Goddard Tapped to Build Integrated-Photonics Modem
2. NASA Selects Five Integrated Photonics Research Projects
3. Astro-H Set to Launch in February
4. SPECIAL REPORT: Year of the Cubesats
5. Engineer Awaits Launch of CANYVAL-X
6. NASA’s First Wide-Field Soft-X-ray Camera Miniaturized
7. Similar Mission Names, Different Objectives
8. Combatting the Noise
9. Personifying the Full Spectrum: Nikolaos Paschalidis
10. ICESat-2: A Mission of Firsts
11. NASA Goes Green
12. Crunch Time: Goddard Teams Pursue Phase-A Studies

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Fall 2015 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Back to the Future: Serviceable Spacecraft Make Comeback
2. Innovative Planet-Finding Technology Passes Hurdle
3. Tech Demonstration Leads to Possible European Mission
4. Beach Ball Coronagraph Eyed for Studying Sun’s Corona
5. Lasercom Takes a Step Forward: New Highs in Accuracy
6. SMAP Scientists Get the Speed They Need
7. Mirrors Get New Shape
8. Stacked Like a Skyscraper: 3-D Integrated Circuits Emerge
9. Brave New World: Heliophysics Leads in CubSat Missions

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Summer 2015 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Lunar IceCube Wins Coveted Slot
2. Breaking News: CuSPP+ Selected
3. The Dawn of a New Detectors
4. The GMAT Wizards
5. Andrucyk Talks Technology
6. LISA Pathfinder Set to Launch This Fall
7. Formerly Inoperative Radar System Gets Facelift
8. Innovator Profile: Paschalidis Waits Nearly a Decade for Pluto Flyby
9. Infusion Success: Coating Used to Protect Webb Observatory

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Spring 2015 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Fearsome Foursome: Technologies Enable MMS
2. Mission Taps the CAVE, Color Coding, and Cleanroom
3. The ‘CAPEd’ Crusader: New CubeSat Concept Advances
4. Innovator Profile: Stephen Rinehart and BETTI
5. New Earth Venture Mission to Provide Missing Data Point
6. Potentially Revolutionary Mission On Track for 2016
7. 3D Printing Reveals Never-Before-Seen Details of Superstar
8. Goddard Scientist Embraces Crowdsourcing
9. MMS: Moving the Lab Into Space

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Winter 2015 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Who Ya Gonna Call?
2. ORCA Prototype Ready for the Open Ocean
3. Team Advances Spaceborne Methane Sounder
4. Scientist to Gather Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Melting Permafrost
5. Engineer Advances New Daytime Star Tracker
6. Astrophysics Mission Eyes New Low-Power Ka-Band Technology
7. Innovator of the Year-Secrets to Success
8. Where Are They Now?

CuttingEdge – Vol. 11 issue 2 – Winter 2015.pdf

Fall 2014 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Chronicling 10 Years of Innovation
2. From Scattered and Stove-Piped to Strategic
3. Gazing into a Crystal Ball
4. Outer Space on a Budget
5. One Big Potentially Groundbreaking Capability
6. Return of the GEDI
7. Creating a Virtual Telescope
8. More Milestones for Ultra-Black Nano-Coating
9. CATS Blazes Trail on Station
10. 3D-Imaging Lidar Advances18
11. Tracking Orbital Debris with Laser
12. Tribute to Wayne R. Powell

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Summer 2014 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Team Advances Microshutter Array Technology
2. Goddard-Led Team Lays Plans to Observe New Worlds
3. Hubble’s Greatest Hits
4. NASA Selects First Earth-1 CubeSat
5. Engineer Set to Complete First 3D Printed Space Cameras
6. Field Campaign Features Three Radars — a NASA First
7. Robotic Refueling Mission to Demonstrate New Inspection Tool
8. A Tribute to Bruce Woodgate

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Spring 2014 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. High-Voltage Power Lines Become Large Antenna in Novel Project
2. OCULLAR Sees Ocean Color Day and Night
3. Goddard Brings Satellite Data to African Agriculture
4. Heliophysicists Blaze a CubeSat Trail
5. DANY to Prove Prowess in Sounding-Rocket Demonstration
6. New Technique Used to Search Space Dust for Life’s Ingredients

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Winter 2014 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. NASA Jumps Aboard the 3D-Manufacturing Train
2. Storied Tradition Potentially Expanded through 3D Manufacturing
3. Entry-System Technology Inspired by an Umbrella
4. CATS to Debut on International Space Station Later this Year
5. Planetary Sciences Come of Age with Balloon-Borne Missions
6. A Spectacular Mission of Firsts for Bustling Spaceport
7. Mapping Earth’s Cropland from Space

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Fall 2013 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Goddard Advances World’s First Spaceborne Sodium Lidar
2. Who Says It Can’t Be Done? Goddard Embraces LIST Challenge
3. Technologists Pursue New Application for Atom Optics
4. Cover Story: Flatley Chosen Innovator of the Year
5. NASA Funds Teams to Advance Smallsat Technologies
6. Never Say Never to Potential Mission to Europa
7. Virtual Toothpick Helps Bake the Perfect Thin-Film Confection
8. The ‘Mission of Firsts’ Uses Low-Cost TDRSS Transceiver

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Summer 2013 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. TESS Team Chooses Just-Right Orbit
2. Traveling to Hard-to-Reach Places Made Easier
3. Hagopian Achieves Another Milestone
4. New Doppler Radar to Debut this Summer
5. HS3 Open for Hurricane Season
6. The Power of Leverage Results in Instrument-Development Award
7. New Circuit Handles Essential Tasks
8. Team wins Cubesat Award

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Spring 2013 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Inspired by a Black Hole NICER/SEXTANT Team Wins Explorer Mission of Opportunity
2. Pulsar-on-a-Table: An Unusual Testbed
3. Flatley Wins Prestigious AAS Award
4. Goddard to Deliver the Most Sophisticated Earth-Observing L-Band Radiometer Ever Built
5. NASA Seeks High-Performance Spaceflight Computing Capabilities
6. Mission Breaks Records; Scientists Go Back for More
7. Next-Generation Navigator Gets Smaller and Stronger
8. Goddard Lab Works at Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice
9. The Heat is On: QWIP Arrays Make Debut

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Winter 2013 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. The Last Frontier: Earth’s Radiation Budget
2. CREPT Wins Coveted Cubesat Berth
3. BUG Technology Comes of Age
4. Innovative Single-Crystal Silicon Mirror Technology Gains Traction
5. CIRS-Lite: Chock-Full of New Technologies
6. New Filter Tidies Up the Messy
7. HOPE for HEROES
8. 3-D Laser Printing Makes Complex Part

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Fall 2012 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Getty Wins Goddard’s Top R&D Prize
2. The Hunt for Amino Acids
3. 839 Planets and Counting
4. Fast Forward to the Past
5. Ah, That New Car Smell
6. Profile: Seeing the Forest AND the Trees
7. The Graphene Portfolio Expands
8. Like a Bad Penny, Hurricane Kept Showing Up
9. Instrument-in-a-Suitcase Passes Important Test

CuttingEdge – Vol. 9 issue 1 – Fall 2012.pdf

Summer 2012 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Atom Optics Come of Age
2. Spectrometer-on-a-Chip
3. New Tool to Identify Organics
4. Space-Age Materials One Atomic Layer at a Time
5. Inspiration from a Roll of Scotch® Tape
6. A New Way to Track Formaldehyde
7. A Mission of Firsts

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Spring 2012 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Mason Peck: Back to NASA’s Technology Roots
2. Tiny Mirrors Promise to Revolutionize Space Observatories
3. Scientist Plans the BigBENI Solution
4. Measuring Transient X-rays with Lobster Eyes
5. Photon Sieve to Fly on Cubesat
6. Mirror, Mirror Out in Space, How To Dust Off Your Face?
7. Days of Launching Gizmos Return
8. Spacecraft Cleanroom Goes Green

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Winter 2012 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. Space Weather Center Adds ‘Ensemble Forecasting’
2. All-Time Greatest Solar Storms
3. Astrophysicist Seeks to Revolutionize X-ray Astronomy
4. Technologist Achieves Milestone with Super-Black Coating
5. A New Alloy for Satellite Skeletons
6. Electronics Designers Beware
7. MINI-ME Observations Could Explain Atmospheric Loss on Smaller Planets
8. Nicholas Paschalidis Focuses on the Small to Explore the Big
9. Tribute to Dan Powell and a Tenacious Spirit

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Fall 2011 Issue of CuttingEdge

1. New Look, New Name
2. Goddard Wins ‘Paradigm-Shifting’ Laser Mission
3. Technology Overcomes Laser Challenges
4. Solving the Carbon Conundrum
5. Science in a Suitcase
6. Hitching a Ride on a Falcon
7. Opportunity Knocks, Scientist Answers
8. Turning Science Fiction into Reality
9. Tribute to Dan Powell and a Tenacious Spirit

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Summer 2011 tech trends

1. Christyl Johnson Discusses Collaborating on a New Level
2. ‘Miracle’ Material Promises Game-Changing Capabilities
3. Technologists Open the WINCS ‘Factory’
4. New HHT-based Data-Processing Tool Nears Completion
5. New Pyrolysis Oven Eclipses Model Flying on SAM
6. Technologists to Demonstrate New Fuel-Storage Technique
7. Juno Flies Powerful, Goddard-Built Magnetometers

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Spring 2011 Issue of tech trends

1. Navigating by Cosmic Beacons
2. NICER Offers More Bang for the Buck
3. NASA Lets the ‘CATS’ Out of the Bag
4. First-Ever Unibody Composite Telescope Developed
5. The Attack of Atomic Oxygen
6. Up, Up, and Away with NASA’s Satellite on a String
7. Juno Flies Powerful, Goddard-Built Magnetometers

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Winter 2011 Issue of tech trends

1. Making Hot,Way Cool
2. Growing Radar Capabilities Result in Two New Awards
3. MABEL Demonstration Lays ICESat-2 Foundation
4. Technologists Kick the Magnet Habit
5. TRACE Boogies in Never- Before- Tried Slewing Maneuver
6. FASTSAT Instruments Begin Operations; Scientists Mourn Passing of Colleague

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Fall 2010 Issue of tech trends

1. Scientists Develop ‘Niche’ Technology for Heliophysics Mission
2. Solar Probe Plus: ‘Mission of the Century’
3. Wallops Tests Emerging Technologies on SubTEC
4. Goddard Achieves an Orbital First
5. Engineers Obtain the ‘Unobtainium’ for the James Webb Space Telescope
6. Image-Processing Software Allows Radiologists to See the Invisible

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Summer 2010 Issue of tech trends

1. Nanotech Light-Suppression Technology Created
2. Goddard Scientists Set Out to Study Why Hurricanes Intensify
3. GloPac Paves Way for Future Airborne Investigations
4. QWIP Technology Finds a Home
5. Looking for Life on Mars – Just a Little Closer to Home
6. Goddard Technology Saves 16-Year-Old Sailor

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Spring 2010 Issue of tech trends

1. Figueroa Commits 20 Percent of R&D Funds to Early-Stage Technology
2. MicroSpec Could Revolutionize Far-Infrared Spectroscopy
3. Goddard-JHU Team Doubles Down to Prove Cosmological Inflation
4. Goddard Team Selected to Advance Planet-Finding Technology
5. Homegrown Navigator Technology Makes Good
6. SpaceCube Developers Take a Page from Apple’s Book

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Winter 2010 Issue of tech trends

1. Scientists Put Goddard Astrobiology Lab on the Map
2. OSIRIS-REx Mission Selected for Concept Development
3. Goddard Leads NASA’s Largest Climate Experiment
4. Mission Accomplished: New System Slashes Flight Software Costs
5. Technologist Discovers New Detector Technology – Serendipitously
6. Detector Development Laboratory Opens Doors to Non-Goddard Users

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Fall 2009 Issue of tech trends

1. Eigenbrode Wins Chief Technologist’s Top Prize
2. New Experiment Enhances Goddard’s SAM Instrument
3. Fast Track to Space: Goddard Scientists to Fly Helio Instruments
4. Goddard Scientist Begins Another Micro-satellite Mission
5. Wanted: Free Ride to Space Using Orion Vehicle
6. Granite Formation Makes Unusual Test Site
7. Sensor Web Simulator Comes Online this Fall

tech trends – Vol. 6 issue 1 – Fall 2009.pdf

Summer 2009 Issue of tech trends

1. GEMS Team Wins Mission
2. Goddard Demonstrates Relative Navigation
3. Navigator Proves Prowess at Tracking Weak GPS Signals
4. Earth Science Takes Flight with New Platform
5. Goddard Scientists Fly Experiments on Global Hawk
6. Granite Formation Makes Unusual Test Site
7. Space Technology Could Help Detect Breast Cancer

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Spring 2009 Issue of tech trends

1. High- Tech Spelunking: Goddard CAVE Opens for Business
2. DREAM Team Investigates Sun-Moon System
3. Early Innovations:A Glimpse at the Future?
4. Next- Generation Data-Compression Chip Manufactured
5. More Data or Perfect Data? What Do You Prefer?
6. Goddard GIS Attracts Exploration Interest

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Winter 2009 Issue of tech trends

1. Rob Strain Speaks Out
2. Did Inflation Happen?
3. Cosmic Radio Mystery
4. MAVEN: A Goddard First
5. Communicating by Laser Beam
6. Infusion Works: R&D Advances New Lidar
7. Goddard Builds Large Composite Structure 

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Fall 2008 Issue of tech trends

1. SXS Team Named Innovators of the Year
2. SMAP Team Runs Interference to Gather Soil-Moisture Data
3. Prototype Measures Dust Motes to Understand Lunar Grit
4. Falling Satellites….A Thing of the Past?
5. Goddard Instrument Finds Heat in an Unlikely Source

tech trends – Vol. 5 issue 1 – Fall 2008.pdf

Summer 2008 Issue of tech trends

1. GEMS Team Wins Phase-A SMEX Study
2. SpaceCube to Fly on Hubble Servicing Mission
3. Optics Technologies Studied for Exoplanet Discovery
4. Reducing the Cost of Mirrors
5. Technologists Win IIP Awards
6. Story of Life…As Recorded in a Rock

tech trends – Vol. 4 issue 4 – Summer 2008.pdf

Spring 2008 Issue of tech trends

1. NuSTAR Mirror Production to Begin this Fall
2. World’s Largest Bolometer Array Camera Debuts in Chile
3. GISMO Demonstrates New Detector Arrays
4. BAT Technology Applied to Homeland Security Need
5. Goddard Joins Consortium to Develop’Rad-Hard’ ASICs
6. Space Act Agreement Expected to Bolster Radar Expertise

tech trends – Vol. 4 issue 3 – Spring 2008.pdf

Winter 2008 Issue of tech trends

1. Peter Hildebrand Discusses Decadal Survey
2. Goddard Scientist Delivers ACE Concept
3. Campaign Demonstrates Feasibility of SIRICE
4. LVIS Maps Greenland
5. New Radar Technology Slated for Spring Demonstration
6. “Fire Channel” Concept Advances

tech trends – Vol. 4 issue 2 – Winter 2008.pdf

Fall 2007 Issue of tech trends

1. Building a Better Electron Gun
2. Laying the Groundwork for Extreme Electronics
3. Mimicking the Lotus Plant
4. Paving the Lunar Surface to Curb Dust
5. Advancing the Use of Composites
6. Gauging Electrostatic Charge

tech trends – Vol 4 issue 1 – Fall 2007.pdf

Summer 2007 Issue of tech trends

1. Technologist Wins Lunar Sortie Mission Study
2. World’s First X-Ray Communication System Demonstrated
3. Large-Format, CMOS-Based Imager Takes “First Light” Image
4. MINI-ME Assures Leadership in Neutrual Atom Imaging
5. Demos Planned for Sensor-Web Reasearch Projects

tech trends – Vol. 3 issue 4 – Summer 2007.pdf

Spring 2007 Issue of tech trends

1. Leshin Speaks on Technology
2. Wavefront Sensing and Control Group Savors Success
3. Lunar Exploration Tool Under Development
4. New Dust Chamber Designed
5. Detector Technology Supports Human Spaceflight
6. Engineers Get Experience in Composites

tech trends – Vol. 3 issue 3 – Spring 2007.pdf

Winter 2007 Issue of tech trends

1. Searching for Clues of Inflation
2. Dust Busters Probe Lunar Environment
3. Goddard Team Designs Lunar Lander
4. Four Payloads to Fly on MidSTAR-2
5. UAV-Specific Instrument Built

tech trends – Vol. 3 issue 2 – Winter 2007.pdf

Fall 2006 Issue of tech trends

1. Next-Generation X-ray Detectors
2. The Methane Mystery
3. Applying Cryogenics to Human Spaceflight
4. SPHEREs in Space
5. Keeping the Homeland Secure
6. Advanced Manufacturing Adds Capability

tech trends – Vol. 3 issue 1 – Fall 2006.pdf

Summer 2006 Issue of tech trends

1. Weiler Discusses State-of-Technology at Goddard
2. Space Cube to Debut in 2007
3. Mars Rover Instrument Offers Design Challenge
4. CULPRiT Demonstrated On Orbit
5. Detector Sees the Invisible, In Color

tech trends – Vol. 2 issue 4 – Summer 2006.pdf

Spring 2006 Issue of tech trends

1. Goddard Scientists Find the ‘Holy Grail’ in Numerical Relativity
2. Laser Experiment Ushers in New Era
3. CSI: Move Over! Forensic Device to Debut
4. Space-Based Range Shows Promise
5. New Payload Carrier Debuts on Sounding Rocket Flight

tech trends – Vol. 2 issue 3 – Spring 2006.pdf

Winter 2006 Issue of tech trends

1. Investment in New Technology Pays Dividends
2. Scientist Develops Process to Mold Curved X-Ray Mirrors
3. Experiments Underway to Turn Moon Dust into Oxygen
4. New Flight Software Delivered to Lunar Mission
5. Micro-Satellites Readied for Launch

tech trends – Vol. 2 issue 2 – Winter 2006.pdf

Fall 2005 Issue of tech trends

1. IP in Space Advances to Next Level
2. First Single-Crystal Silicon Mirror Delivered
3. ST9Concept Definition Studies Begin
4. Hybrid UAV Shows SHAPES of Things to Come
5. Work Progressing on TETWalker

tech trends – Vol 2 issue 1 – Fall 2005.pdf

Summer 2005 Issue of tech trends

1. Goddard to Restore Robotics Capability
2. Technologist Proposes High-Tech Skin for Robots
3. Goddard’s Mars Exoterrain Open for Business
4. Technologist Takes Modularity to the Next Level
5. Second-Generation Thermal Control Technology Readied
6. Physicist Studies Innovative Use of Prometheus Spacecraft

tech trends – Vol. 1 issue 3 – Summer 2005.pdf

Winter 2005 Issue of tech trends

1. Goddard Investigators Win Exploration Systems Research
   and Technology Funds
2. First Nano Device to Fly in Space in 2005
3. NASA to Demonstrate Aquabots
4. First Nanotechnology Device to Fly in Space in 2005
5. Software Defined Radio (SDR) Offers New Functionality
6. Formation-Flying Testbed Adds Capabilities
7. Worth Noting

tech trends – Vol. 1 issue 2 – Winter 2005.pdf

Fall 2004 Issue of tech trends

1. Making the Case for a Mini-Mass Spectrometer
2. Sample Nanotube Laminate Produced
3. Technologists Demonstrate Sensorweb Technology
4. Microshutter Project on Track
5. Worth Noting

tech trends – Vol 1 issue 1 – Fall 2004.pdf