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NASA, Google Announce Lease at Ames Research Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA June 2008 NASA, Google announce lease at Ames Research Center BY MICHAEL MEWHINNEY a key component of Google's strategy NASA an initial base rent of $3.66 NASA and Google Inc. announced for continued growth in Silicon Val- million per year. This rate is based on on June 4 plans to develop a new high- ley," said David Radcliffe, Google's appraisals establishing fair market technology campus at NASA Ames. vice president of real estate and value of the land. NASA will use the workplace services. "We believe this proceeds to cover the full cost of the collaboration between Google, NASA lease and the balance may be used for and the city of Mountain View is capital revitalization and improve- emblematic of the mutually beneficial ments of the real property assets at partnerships that can be created be- Ames. tween the public and private sectors." The 40-year lease provides for pe- Under the terms of this enhanced- riodic escalations and adjustments of Photo courtesy Google use lease (EUL), Google will pay continued on page 8 NASA tests lunar robots and spacesuits on Earthly moonscape BY KELLY HU M PHRIES AND RACHEL PRUCEY return to the moon by 2020, begin Conditions on the moon will be to explore the lunar surface, and set harsher, but prototype NASA robotic up outposts,” said Test Director Bill vehicles braved sand storms and Bluethmann of NASA’s Johnson Space unprecedented temperature swings Center in Houston. continued on page 11 NASA photo by Sean Smith NASA NASA and Google recently signed a 40-year lease agreement for Google to use 42.2 acres of land at Ames’ NASA Research Park. Above is an overview of the area, top left corner, where Google will construct up to 1.2 million square feet of offices and R&D facilities. Under the terms of the 40-year agreement, Google will lease 42.2 acres of unimproved land in NASA Research Park at Ames to construct up to 1.2 million square feet of offices and research and development (R&D) facilities in a campus-style setting. "With this new campus, we will NASA gathered some of its most promising new concepts for living and working on the surface of the establish a new era of expanded moon for a series of field tests at Moses Lake sand dunes, Wash., in early June. Robots, rovers and collaboration with Google that will lunar planners simulated luanr exploration, site serverys and outpost construction. further enhance our Silicon Valley con- nections," said Ames Center Director this month on sand dunes near Moses S. Pete Worden. Lake, Wash., to prepare for future On the Inside . "This major expansion of NASA lunar expeditions. Teams from seven Page 2 - NASA develops world’s highest Research Park supports NASA's NASA centers and several universities resolution visualization system mission to lead the nation in space conducted the tests from June 2-13. Page 4 - Ames Team wins Collier Trophy exploration, scientific discovery and “The goal was to gain hands-on Page 5 - Presidential/NASA Honor awards aeronautics research." experience with specific technical Page 6 - Space Act Awards presented "This long-term lease agreement is challenges anticipated when humans Page 13 - Classifieds www.nasa.gov NASA develops world’s highest resolution visualization system BY MICHAEL MEWHINNEY AND JILL DUNBAR The power to visualize highly complex information in a way that’s easier for the human mind to grasp is taking a giant leap forward with the advent of NASA’s new hyperwall-2 system unveiled June 25 at Ames. Developed by scientists and photos by Eric James NASA engineers in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames, the 128-screen hyperwall-2, ca- pable of rendering one quarter billion pixel graphics, is the world’s highest resolution scientific visualization and data exploration environment. The new tool enables scientists to quickly explore datasets that otherwise would take many years to analyze. The 23-foot-wide by 10-foot-tall liquid crystal display wall is being used to view, analyze and communi- cate results from NASA’s high-fidelity modeling and simulation projects supporting the safety of new space ex- ploration vehicle designs, atmospheric Timothy "Tim" Sandstrom, of Computer Sciences Corporation seen here operating the 128-screen re-entry analysis for the space shuttle, hyperwall-2, which has the ability to render one earthquakes, climate change, global quarter billion pixel graphics and is the world’s weather and black hole collisions. highest resolution scientific visualization and data “The hyperwall-2 offers a super- exploration environment. computer-scale environment that is truly up to the task of visualization and exploration of the very large datasets routinely produced by NASA supercomputers and instruments,” large image or animation. It would er, hyperwall-2 will enable NASA to said Bryan Biegel, NAS deputy chief. take nearly 600 video game consoles meet its increasing needs for advanced “The system also will be used to get to equal the hyperwall-2’s graphics visualization and analysis of large, highly detailed information on how processing capabilities. high-dimensional simulation results. NAS supercomputers are operating, “We are proud to continue part- With more than 100 times the pro- enabling staff to quickly and precisely nering with NAS as it offers advanced, cessing power of the original 49-screen diagnose problems or inefficiencies innovative solutions for high-per- hyperwall developed in 2002 by the with the supercomputers or the soft- formance computing,” said Gautam NAS visualization team, hyperwall-2 ware running on them.” Shah, chief executive officer, Colfax will be integrated with the team’s Designed and developed by the International. “As NASA Ames suc- software tools. This includes a state-of- NAS visualization team in partnership cessfully responds to support the the-art concurrent visualization frame- with Colfax International, Sunnyvale, visualization and data analysis needs work to provide NASA scientists and the system is powered by 128 graphics of researchers to maximize the under- engineers with ultra-high resolution processing units and 1,024 processor standing of scientific results, Colfax images and videos to explore results of cores, with 74 teraflops (one teraflop International is pleased to be part of their research and analysis. equals one trillion floating point op- the hyperwall-2 visualization cluster For more about the NASA Ad- erations per second) of peak process- project,” Shah added. Colfax previous- vanced Supercomputing Division, ing power and a data storage capacity ly built a “mini” hyperwall for NAS visit:http://www.nas.nasa.gov of 475 terabytes (one terabyte equals used for demonstrations at national one trillion bytes). The hyperwall-2 conferences. allows researchers to quickly deter- With a direct, high-speed connec- mine trends across an array of related tion from the supercomputers at NAS, simulation results, or to view a single including the Columbia supercomput- 2 Astrogram June 2008 Moon-bound NASA spacecraft passes major preflight tests BY JONAS DINO Engineering teams are conducting final checkouts of the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, known as LCROSS, that will take a significant step forward in the search for water on the moon. The mission's main objec- tive is to confirm the presence or absence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. Grumman photos courtesy Northrop NASA A major milestone, thermal vacuum testing of the LCROSS spacecraft, was completed June 5 at the Northrop Grumman fa- cility in Redondo Beach, Calif. To simulate the harsh conditions of space, technicians subjected the spacecraft to 13.5 days of heating and cooling cycles during which tempera- tures reached as high as 230 degrees Fahrenheit and as low as minus 40 degrees. Previous testing for the LCROSS space- craft included acoustic vibra- tion tests. Those tests simu- lated launch conditions and The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite is gently maneuvered into the Thermal Vacuum Chamber at checked mating of connection the Northrop Grumman Facility, Redondo Beach, Calif. During the tests, the spacecraft was subjected to heating and points to the Atlas V rocket's cooling cycles to simulate the harsh conditions in outer space. Thermal Vacuum is the final milestone before being Centaur upper stage and the certified for space flight. adapter ring for the Lunar Re- connaissance Orbiter, known as LRO. After launch, the LCROSS space- design and development expertise of The satellite currently is undergo- craft and the Atlas V's Centaur upper integration partner Northrop Grum- ing final checkout tests. After all tests stage rocket will execute a fly-by of man Space Technologies. The LCROSS are complete, the LCROSS space- the moon and enter into an elongated and LRO missions are components craft will be prepared for delivery Earth orbit to position the satellite for of the Lunar Precursor Robotic Pro- to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in impact on a lunar pole. On final ap- gram at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Florida for launch processing and in- proach, the spacecraft and the Centaur Center, Huntsville, Ala. The program tegration onto the Atlas V as a second- will separate. The Centaur will strike manages pathfinding robotic mis- ary payload to LRO. Both spacecraft the surface of the moon, creating a sions to the moon for the Exploration are scheduled to launch from Kennedy debris plume that will rise above the Systems Mission Directorate at NASA in late 2008. surface. Four minutes later, LCROSS Headquarters in Washington. "The spacecraft steadily has taken will fly through the debris plume, col- For more information about the shape since Ames delivered the sci- lecting and relaying data back to Earth Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing ence payload in January," said Daniel before impacting the lunar surface and Satellite, visit: http://lcross.arc.nasa.
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