Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph

NASA Awards Contracts for NOAA Coronagraph Instrument Phase A Study

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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GREENBELT, Md., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected five firms for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study.

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  • GREENBELT, Md., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected five firms for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study.
  • The principal purpose of these contracts is to provide a definition-phase study of a L1 Series COR instrument.
  • The COR instrument will provide Coronal imagery of the Sun for detection and characterization of the Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections.
  • NOAA funds, operates, and manages the mission and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the acquisition of the Phase A Formulation contracts.

NRL’s LASCO Telescope Collecting New Data on Asteroids and Comets

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
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Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists continue to break ground using the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) telescope.

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  • Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists continue to break ground using the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) telescope.
  • The telescope, which has been in operation for the past 27 years, is now collecting new information about the properties of asteroids and comets near the sun.
  • “Even after 27 years, we are still finding novel ways to get unique science out of LASCO,” said Battams.
  • Images from these mission instruments provide data for citizen scientist “comet hunters” to search for new comets.

Topcoder Challenge Finds Two New Comets For NASA

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Monday, April 11, 2022
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In addition to the prize money, the winning participants will earn discovery credit for the comets found using their developed algorithms.

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  • In addition to the prize money, the winning participants will earn discovery credit for the comets found using their developed algorithms.
  • Topcoder is the worlds top open talent platform for developers, designers, and data scientists, said Doug Hanson, CEO, Topcoder.
  • We are proud to work with NASA to accelerate the development of new algorithms to make comet discovery easier.
  • For 20 years, Topcoder has helped organizations including Adobe, Comcast, Google, Harvard Medical School, Land OLakes, Microsoft, NASA Tournament Lab, SpaceNet, T-Mobile, U.S. Dept.