Inspecting Engineering Samples

Goddard's Ritsko Wins 2011 SAVE Award

The winner of the 2011 SAVE Award is Matthew Ritsko, a Goddard financial manager. His tool lending library would track and enable sharing of expensive space-flight tools and hardware after projects no longer need them.

This set of images represents the types of tools used at NASA.

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Dr. Doug Rabin (Code 671) and PI La Vida Cooper (Code
564) inspect engineering samples of the HAS-2 imager which will be tested and readout using a custom ASIC with a 16-bit ADC (analog to digital converter) and CDS (correlated double sampling) circuit designed by the Code
564 ASIC group as a part of an FY10 IRAD. The purpose of the IRAD was to develop and high resolution digitizer for Heliophysics applications such as imaging. Future goals for the collaboration include characterization testing and eventually a sounding rocket flight of the integrated system.
*ASIC= Application Specific Integrated Circuit

NASA/GSFC/Chris Gunn