Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Communications and Outreach

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Communications and Outreach

Co-PIs
School or Division
Calendar Start & End Date
Jul 2018 to Jul 2021
Funding Amount
$240,000

Working with Project Management at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, SSU personnel will support press communications, outreach events and scientific illustrations on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory scientific missions. Dr. Cominsky is a scientific Co-Investigator for both missions, and also serves as press officer. Aurore Simonnet's illustrations of previous Fermi and Swift high-energy discoveries have included covers of two issues of Science magazine, and one issue of Nature.