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Goddard Space Flight Center

Astrophysics Science Division | Sciences and Exploration

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Marmot the Mascot

Marmot is the official mascot of the ARCADE project. He has accompanied the payload on every flight as the on-board instrument specialist and currently holds the world altitude record for a solo flight by a stuffed animal*.


Marmot breadboarding
Breadboarding is hard work!


Marmot debugs the electronics
Let's see ... red is plus, so black must be ...



Marmot and a heater
Sure, give the marmot all the hard jobs

* If this is in fact not true, we don't want to know.