# NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
**Domain:** Earth Science / Space Science / Instrumentation
**Doc Type:** Institution Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[Planetary Sensing]], [[Planetary Sensing|Earth observation]], [[Research Infrastructure]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]
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## Definition
**NASA Goddard Space Flight Center** is a NASA research and engineering center working across Earth science, astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary science and space instrumentation.
## Corpus Context
Goddard helps constitute a planetary sensorium. Satellites, models and data systems allow civilization to perceive weather, climate and cosmic processes at scales no individual observer can inhabit.
## Directory Context
This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [NASA Goddard](https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/)