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Busy rocket season to launch at Poker Flat Research Range
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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A total of eight National Aeronautics and Space Administration sounding rockets will launch from Poker Flat Research Range in 2009. The rocket season is split into two launch windows. The first launch window opens Jan. 10, ...
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Updated version of GAIM model goes operational
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May 02, 2008 |
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An updated version of the Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM) model went operational at the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) on February 22, 2008. The operational GAIM program has been under development ...
NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations
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Nov 03, 2009 |
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Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science ...
New hyperspectral imager launched to International Space Station
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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Following a fast-paced 16 month design and development process, NRL's Remote Sensing and Space Science Divisions and the Naval Center for Space Technology provide the first-ever high quality and real-time ...
STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission
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Dec 02, 2009 |
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The STPSat-1, built for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) and operated by the DoD STP for the first year then transitioned to NRL for the last 16 months, was decommissioned on October ...
Similarities in Sun’s Effects on Earth and Mars
May 25, 2006 |
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“Despite differences in the chemical compositions and densities of Earth’s and Mars’ atmospheres, we now have a definitive example showing that both planets’ atmospheres react similarly to varying levels of solar energy impacting ...
HICO-RAIDS experiments ready for payload integration
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Sep 26, 2008 |
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The Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) and the Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS), both developed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), are ready for payload integration following ...
View of the Upper Atmosphere
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Scientists from NASA and the National Science Foundation discovered a way to combine ground and space observations to create an unprecedented view of upper atmosphere disturbances during space storms.
The Sun Shows Signs of Life
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Nov 10, 2008 |
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After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. "I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway ...
First Global Connection Between Earth And Space Weather Found
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Sep 12, 2006 |
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Weather on Earth has a surprising connection to space weather occurring high in the electrically-charged upper atmosphere, known as the ionosphere, according to new results from NASA satellites. "This discovery ...
Mars Express radar data analysis is on the move
Nov 17, 2005 |
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The Mars Express radar, MARSIS, has now been deployed for more than four months. Today ESA reports on the activities so far.
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