SOHO Experimenters' Analysis Facility

SOHO Experimenters' Analysis Facility (EAF)

The SOHO EAF is located on the ground floor of Building 26 at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. The EAF shares the floor with a Global Geospace Science (GGS) science operations and analysis facility, and the Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) will be colocated approximately one month before SOHO launch. The Building 26 facility also includes a conference room that will be used for SOHO quarterly, monthly, and weekly planning meetings.

The EAF provides office space for approximately 40 people, with both private and group areas, and will be connected to the Experimenters' Operations Facility (EOF) via high-speed fiber (FDDI) for transparent telecommnications between the two facilities. (The EOF in Building 3 and the EAF are approximately 1 km apart.)

While much of the facility is below grade, Goddard management was kind enough to have five large windows cut in the north wall of the EAF/GGS area. Natural lighting and the need for privacy while doing science were balanced by the use of divider panels whose top sections are glass in those segments parallel to the windows.

Some pictures of the EAF:

Looking north in the SOHO EAF

The east entrance to the EAF, with mailboxes and EOF manager's desk

One of the group areas in the EAF

Another group seating area in the EAF

Web curator: Joe Gurman
gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Responsible NASA official: A.I. Poland
Arthur.I.Poland.1@gsfc.nasa.gov

Last revision: 1995 April 9.