Advances in Coating Technology Take Shape at NASA Goddard

The Contamination and Coatings Engineering Branch at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, provides system-level support in contamination engineering and thermal coatings engineering from concept to mission end of life. This includes development, implementation, and management of instrument and spacecraft contamination control programs, technical consultation on contamination and coatings issues, thermal coatings applications, material property characterization, and coatings flight qualification.