My trial and error repository during my internship at the GSFC.
Alongside Simon Strandberg and Lina Olandersson, I spent 10 weeks working at NVI Inc., a contractor, contracted solemnly by NASA.
NVI Inc. has been contracted by NASA for the past 40 years, at the Goddard Space Flight Centre. NASA at Goddard controls the Hubble Space Telescope, sends satellites to Jupiter and builds equipments that are on board the Mars rover Curiosity! You could say that Goddard is quite a big deal. It has been inspiring to work here; to wake up in tho morning and think: "Today I am going to work, at NASA."
NVI is devoted to VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) a technique which boils down to: having an antenna look at something in the universe, often quasars which are super bright sources of energy, and derive information about that source. By having multiple antennas looking at the same source one can correlate the difference in arrival time between the antennas. This information can then be used to calculate the distance between said antennas using trigonometry.
In this repository you find the work we have produced during our internship.
testing/ contains a lot of unfinished tests, tutorials, etc. that we have
tried and then left to die. There might be a point at which I wish to return to
those ideas though, why they are still present in the repository.
azel/ contains our more successful of the two projects that we did. It is a
program that calculates slewing times for the VLBI antennas in use all over the
world. A more thorough readme is present in that folder.
parent_child/ is the beginning of a rewrite of the program
Calc/Solve. Calc/Solve is
used by scientists all over the world to analyze their VLBI findings. We set
out to rewrite some part of the program's I/O handling. We managed to do it,
but the result was not as good as expected and for now the project is put on
ice.
At the en of our stay we have a presentation. You can find that presentation here.