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NASA Press Release: 99-3,
January 14, 1999
Computer software developed for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
will soon help operate a worldwide, satellite-based phone system
called Globalstar. This software is a key feature of NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center's "Vision 2000," a forward-looking effort to
optimize the ground system operations and control of the Hubble
Space Telescope.
The "Vision 2000" software allows scientists and engineers to
access and display Hubble spacecraft- and ground-systems data
through the Internet. Now engineers can log on from home or other
remote locations via their personal computers.
This Hubble spinoff will provide Globalstar, LP, San Jose,
CA, with the technology to aid in delivering voice, data, fax and
other telecommunications services to users worldwide. The spinoff
technology will satisfy the critical need for Globalstar engineers
to remotely access spacecraft telemetry data from anywhere in the
world. Globalstar team members and partners will be able to
coordinate efforts, and dynamically monitor and troubleshoot
situations with the constellation of 48 low-Earth orbiting
satellites from multiple locations.
As part of its mission to build technology partnerships with
industry, Goddard, in Greenbelt, MD, where the Hubble Space
Telescope is controlled, has authorized Lockheed Martin Technology
Services Group, Seabrook, MD, to use this software for the
commercial Globalstar project. Lockheed Martin Technology
Services Group is a ground-system contractor to Globalstar, LP.
"This technology transfer partnership with Lockheed Martin
shows an example of a technology developed to meet NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope mission requirements that also satisfies a need in
the commercial marketplace," said Marguerite Broadwell,
Intellectual Property Rights Advisor at Goddard.
Goddard is in the process of evaluating the software to
determine other viable commercial applications. Companies
interested in pursuing commercialization of this or any other
Goddard-developed technology are encouraged to contact Goddard's
Technology Commercialization Office at 301/286-5810.
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