STORIE Fit Test at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA’s STORIE mission, or Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution, has completed its design, build, and testing campaign at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, ahead of its mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
From its unique vantage point on the ISS, STORIE will use neutral atom imaging to provide an “inside out” view of Earth’s ring current – a region of the magnetosphere where energetic particles are trapped in near-Earth space. In addition to answering fundamental questions about the ring current’s intensity and composition, STORIE will also provide a more detailed understanding of how geomagnetic storms affect Earth.
From NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, STORIE will be shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where it will be integrated onto a pallet to be installed outside the ISS’s Columbus Module. STORIE will head to the ISS aboard a SpaceX commercial resupply flight no earlier than spring 2026.
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STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Video Credit: NASA/Beth Anthony
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE team members perform a fit test for the optics onto the instrument’s detector plane in the Space Plasma Instrument Facility at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE’s Charged Particle Rejector Collimator (CPRC) awaits integration in a lab at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE’s Charged Particle Rejector Collimator (CPRC) awaits integration in a lab at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
STORIE’s Microchannel Plate (MCP), which is a key piece of the detector module, awaits integration in a lab at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Photo Credit: NASA/Lacey Young
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Lacey Young (eMITS)
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Videographer
- Beth Anthony (eMITS)
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Photographer
- Lacey Young (eMITS)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, July 18, 2025.
This page was last updated on Friday, July 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM EDT.