National Aeronautics Aeronautics and and Space Space Administration Administration National
Volume 9
Issue 3
Spring 2013
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Volume 9 Issue 2 Winter 2013 2 Inspired by a Black Hole: Team Wins Explorer Mission
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www.nasa.gov NICER/SEXTANT team (clockwise, front left): Keith Gendreau, Zaven Arzoumanian, Luke Winternitz, and Jason Mitchell (Photo Credit: Pat Izzo)
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Pulsar-on-a-Table: Science Divisions Team to Demonstrate An Unusual Testbed First Wide-Field X-ray Imager Flatley Wins Prestigious Award The Last Frontier: Earth’s Radiation Goddard to DeliverBudget Most Sophisticated Radiometer Ever Built CREPT Wins Coveted Cubesat Berth NASATechnology Seeks High-Performance BUG Comes of Age Spaceflight Computer Innovative Single-Crystal Silicon Mirror Mission Breaks Records; Technology Gains TractionScientists Go Back for More CIRS-Lite: Chock-Full of New Technologies Navigator Gets Smaller and Stronger New Filter Tidies Up the Messy The Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice HOPE for HEROES QWIP Arrays Make Debut 3-D Laser Printing Makes Complex Part