Science news articles about 'instrument package'

... flight of the National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or NPOESS. The instrument package had been canceled during the 2006 restructuring of the NPOESS program, a joint ...

... is about one-and-one-half times the diameter of the Hubble Space Telescope. The instrument package aboard Herschel that was used for the observations is known as the Spectral and Photometric Imaging ...

... at the University of Southern California. Calibrations of the spectrophotometers as well as other devices in the EVE instrument package were performed on high-accuracy beamlines at the NIST SURF III ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency is asking college students to design tools or instrument packages that could be used on the next generation of human-driven moon rovers.

... Professor William Boynton developed the Gamma Ray Spectrometer instrument package on Mars Odyssey that detected water ice near the Martian poles in 2001. Phoenix Mars Lander ...