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- A first for NASA's IRIS: Observing a gigantic eruption of solar material
- Precipitation satellite passes check-out, starts mission
- Two GOES-R instruments complete spacecraft integration
| A first for NASA's IRIS: Observing a gigantic eruption of solar material Posted: 30 May 2014 04:06 PM PDT A coronal mass ejection, or CME, surged off the side of the sun on May 9, 2014, and NASA's newest solar observatory caught it in extraordinary detail. This was the first CME observed by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, which launched in June 2013 to peer into the lowest levels of the sun's atmosphere with better resolution than ever before. |
| Precipitation satellite passes check-out, starts mission Posted: 30 May 2014 04:05 PM PDT The new Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory satellite is now in the hands of the engineers who will fly the spacecraft and ensure the steady flow of data on rain and snow for the life of the mission. The official handover to the Earth Science Mission Operations team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center marked the end of a successful check-out period. |
| Two GOES-R instruments complete spacecraft integration Posted: 29 May 2014 03:27 PM PDT Two of the six instruments that will fly on NOAA's first Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R satellite have completed integration with the spacecraft. The Solar Ultraviolet Imager and Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Sensors were installed on the sun-pointing platform. |
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