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Subj: New Weather Satellites Launched
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 012.08 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. JANUARY 12, 2002
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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**Suitland - Jan 6, 2003 - Weather and climate forecasters will double
their pleasure,
thanks to today's successful launch of NASA's SeaWinds scatterometer
instrument. The
instrument, which was launched last December from Japan's Tanegashima Spa=
ce
Center,
joins another satellite already in orbit to measure wind speed and
direction over
Earth's oceans.
--SpaceDaily
**NASA is set to launch ICESat (Ice, Cloud, land, Elevation Satellite) on
January 11, 2003. Using "lidar", basically laser radar, this satellite
will measure changes in the earth's features. Although principally
designed to measure changes in global ice cover, ICESat will also make
important readings about clouds, atmospheric aerosols, vegetation, land
topography, and the oceans.
Further information on the SeaWinds project can be found at
http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/seawinds/seaindex.html
Information about ICESat can be found at http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/
[ANS thanks SpaceDaily and NASA for the above information]
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