NASA to launch ocean wind monitor to space station
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 17:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org)—In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean-surface wind speed and direction.
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