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| WATCH LIVE: CYGNSS Mission Set To Launch Today at 8:26 a.m. From Cape Canaveral; Launch was successful | |
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| Demagogue | Dec 15 2016, 01:15 PM Post #1 |
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http://spacecoastdaily.com/2016/12/watch-live-cygnss-mission-set-to-launch-today-at-826-a-m-from-cape-canaveral/ BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission is set to launch Thursday at 8:26 a.m. from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket. Orbital ATK’s Pegasus rocket gets its payloads into space just like a conventional rocket, but instead of lifting off from the ground, the Pegasus starts its trip already in the air. That’s because a modified L-1011 airliner carries the Pegasus and its payload – CYGNSS in this case – to about 39,000 feet. Pegasus begins its solo flight by being released from the belly of the airliner. |
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| Demagogue | Dec 15 2016, 01:17 PM Post #2 |
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There is a video of the launch in the link. This is a rather interesting and novel approach to measuring windspeed that leverages existing resources. Really a brilliant design. Hopefully this will help with the sometimes rather spotty hurricane intensity forecasts. Here is a link explaining CYGNSS. https://www.nasa.gov/cygnss/the-science-of-cygnss https://www.nasa.gov/cygnss Edited by Demagogue, Dec 15 2016, 01:19 PM.
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| PATruth | Dec 15 2016, 01:18 PM Post #3 |
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I love NASA. I would like to see Trump double or even triple their budget. It's money well spent. |
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| Demagogue | Dec 15 2016, 01:21 PM Post #4 |
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Agreed although to be fair, the CYGNSS mission is more a job for NOAA beyond the part where it involves using satellites. |
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| PATruth | Dec 15 2016, 01:29 PM Post #5 |
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Yep, "The CYGNSS mission will use radio signals from the GPS satellites to measure the wind speed of hurricanes near the ground in the tropics, between 35 degrees north and 35 degrees south where most hurricanes are born." I just love the technology. As with most technology there are future uses, it adds to our knowledge base. |
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| Demagogue | Dec 15 2016, 01:36 PM Post #6 |
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This one is particularly brilliant in that it is leveraging an existing mature technology to do a new job by simply adding a constellation of small, inexpensive satellites. Whoever came up with this (assuming it works) is my kind of engineer/scientist. |
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| PATruth | Dec 15 2016, 01:45 PM Post #7 |
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If we could get our children to idolize NASA engineers, astrophysicists and cosmologists instead of NBA players our nation's problem would all but disappear. |
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| Demagogue | Dec 15 2016, 01:48 PM Post #8 |
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You have a point there. |
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| clone | Dec 15 2016, 01:49 PM Post #9 |
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To other planets..... As to your dumping more money into NASA....I'm all for it but how bout we get them back on track with their original mission.... NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, U.S. Marine Corps flag officer, and test pilot, was making diversionary excuses for the cancellation of manned space exploration and carrying out President Obama’s orders. In July 2010, Bolden explained to Al-Jazeera: When I became the NASA administrator, [President Obama] charged me with three things. One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) provided numerical proof that NASA’s mission was hijacked to push radical global warming theories, “In the last 6 years…we’ve seen earth sciences increase 41 percent, and we’ve seen exploration and space operations—what should be the core mission, what NASA exists to do—decrease 7.6 percent.” Earth Sciences is the primary NASA department for global warming activities. In 2012, 49 former NASA astronauts and distinguished scientists wrote a letter asking Administrator Bolden to stop using NASA to push radical global warming theories. They warned that NASA’s “advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study” puts at risk “the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA’s current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.” https://capitalresearch.org/article/nasa/ Edited by clone, Dec 15 2016, 01:50 PM.
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