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NASA GLORY Spacecraft

January 31, 2011 by admin  
Filed under Solar

NASA GLORY Spacecraft
NASA’s GLORY satellite is scheduled for launch on February 23rd, 2011 from Vandenberg Air Force Base , California, to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere. The NASA GLORY spacecraft is a low Earth orbit observation satellite that will collect data on aerosol properties in the atmosphere, as well as the solar irradiance from the Sun. [...]