Taking the wraps off NISTAR
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 10:00
in Astronomy & Space
The NIST Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR), mothballed for more than a decade, is slated to make its space debut very soon about 1.5 million kilometers sunward of Earth. It will fly as part of the long-postponed Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission, led by NOAA in partnership with NASA and the U.S. Air Force, scheduled for launch in January, 2015.