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Aerojet Has A Sense For The Weather
Azusa - October 27, 1999 - An Aerojet weather-watching Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) sensor has completed its pre-shipping review that will be launched aboard the European meteorological satellite METOP-1 in June 2003. The review was conducted by officials from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the European agency EUMETSAT. This AMSU-A is the seventh of nine Aerojet is building for NASA/Goddard. "The AMSU-A team deserves a lot of credit for delivering this instrument ahead of schedule to our customer," said Carol Neves, Aerojet AMSU program manager. AMSU-A is manufactured at Aerojet's Azusa facility for use on weather- forecasting satellites utilized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other agencies. The sensor's microwave radiometer provides temperature profiles from the earth's surface up to an altitude of 43 kilometers, as well as estimates of atmospheric water vapor and cloud cover over oceans. Aerojet is bidding to develop AMSU's successor, the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounding Unit (ATMS), which will send global atmospheric temperature, moisture and pressure profiles from polar orbit. The first AMSU instrument was launched on the NOAA-15 satellite May 13, 1998, and has performed exceedingly well. Highly accurate temperature profiles and other data from this instrument are being used by the National Weather Service and other weather centers to significantly improve weather forecasts. In a new application, AMSU-A data has been used not only to follow the progress of tropical storms such as Hurricanes Floyd and Irene but also to measure their maximum sustained wind speed, thus providing another tool to monitor the intensity of storms as they near land. Aerojet, a division of GenCorp, is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader principally serving the space electronics, missile and space propulsion, and smart munitions and armaments markets.
Lasers Brings Leonids Alive
Kirtland (AFPN) - October 27, 1999 - An Air Force Research Laboratory astronomer calls them "glowworms in the sky" and scientists will soon gather at the laboratory's Starfire Optical Range to study them. |
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