Spacecraft Fabrication Facility (Goddard)

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The Spacecraft Fabrication Facility is a unit at the Goddard Space Flight Center where technicians and engineers manufacture components used for spacecraft assembly. This includes the tools which the astronauts use in space as well as the spacecraft themselves.

## Branches

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The Mission Engineering and Systems Analysis Branch is broken up into seven smaller branches:

* GN&C Systems Engineering Branch
* Systems Engineering Services and Advanced Concepts Branch
* Flight Dynamics Analysis Branch
* Component Hardware Systems Branch
* Propulsion Branch - The Propulsion branch is responsible for the spacecraft propulsion subsystems design, fabrication, analysis, integration, testing, propellant loading, and launch. LRO is one of the current missions.
* GN&C Mission Systems Engineering Branch
* Mission Systems Engineering Branch

## External links

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* NASA: Goddard's Organizations and Projects

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Main articles|

* Robert H. Goddard
* GSFC History

Facilities|

* Wallops Flight Facility (WFF)
* Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
* Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF)
* Spacecraft Magnetic Test Facility
* Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility (IV&V)
* Spacecraft Fabrication Facility

Notable missions
and programs|

* Explorers Program
* Landsat program
* Getaway Special
* Space Network
* Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRS)
* Hitchhiker Program
* Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
* Near Earth Network
* Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
* Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO)
* Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
* Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)
* NASA Earth Observatory
* Goddard Earth Observing System
* Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
* Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
* James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
* Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

People|

| Leadership|

* Dennis J. Andrucyk (Director)
* Anne L. Kinney (Deputy Center Director)
* Christyl Johnson (Deputy Director, Technology and Research Investments)
* Ray Rubilotta (Associate Center Director)

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Notable scientists
and engineers|

* David Louis Band
* Robert Bindschadler
* Fred Espenak
* Gene Carl Feldman
* Orlando Figueroa
* James Hansen
* Marc Kuchner
* Lissette Martinez
* John C. Mather
* Nancy Roman

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