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Infrared Sounder Producing Weather Data

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NASHUA, N.H., Nov. 6 -- BAE SYSTEMS' atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS), launched May 2002 on board the Aqua earth-observing system (EOS), has completed engineering checkout and calibration operations and is now transmitting continuous, uninterrupted data to the Project Science team, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the parent organization of the National Weather Service. AIRS, a space-borne research tool designed to make highly accurate measurements of air temperature and humidity on a global scale, was developed for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory by...Read full article

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    Published: November 2002
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