Business
Spectrolab Inc. in Sylmar won a $1,702,651 contract from Goddard Space Flight Center to develop, design, fabricate, assemble and test XTE solar array panels.
Sept. 15, 1992
Keeping track: As the Hubble Space Telescope gazes at the heavens, engineers in the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are using personal computers from AST Research of Irvine to monitor and verify the orbit of the shuttle-launched telescope.
May 8, 1990
Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. of Camarillo has delivered the first working prototypes of its telemetry frame synchronizer chip to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Science & Medicine
The pioneering telescopes aboard the space shuttle Columbia went into service Sunday night and began an extraordinary reconnaissance of the universe.
Dec. 3, 1990
Space Vector Corp. in Chatsworth won a $6,722,068 contract from Goddard Space Flight Center to provide platforms, gyros and attitude control systems.
June 16, 1992
Electro-Optek Corp. in Torrance won a $495,369 contract from Goddard Space Flight Center for research work.
June 13, 1990
Politics
House Republicans have proposed a major NASA restructuring that would double the staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, making it the country’s largest space flight center.
July 12, 1995
Yoram Kaufman, 57, a leading scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center whose research led to greater understanding of global warming, died May 31 at Prince George’s Hospital Center in Maryland.
June 12, 2006
NASA engineers on Saturday began focusing the Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for taking the $1.5-billion orbiting observatory’s first picture of the heavens this week.
May 13, 1990
Gerald A.
Nov. 26, 2000