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Article: Groundbreaking. Grounded. A satellite experiment led by NASA Langley and Hampton University will send laser beams into the Earth's atmosphere to gain unprecedented insight into how clouds and airborne particles form, evolve and affect climate. If it ever gets off the ground.(Business)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2006
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BY ALLISON CONNOLLY
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Conceived in 1996, the Calipso satellite is to be a groundbreaking atmospheric science experiment le d by NASA Langley Research Center and Hampton University and partly funded by France.
Yet nearly a year after the satellite was supposed to launch, it still sits in a hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Calipso stands for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations. In tandem with another satellite, called CloudSat, a weather radar that is 1,000 times more sensitive than those currently available, the two would be capable of taking the first-ever three-dimensional pictures ...