Four Scientific Payloads To Extend Understanding Of The Space Environment
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a contract to Sierra Nevada Space Systems to develop and build a next-generation science and technology demonstration satellite. Known as STPSat-5, the satellite is for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Space Test Program (STP).
MAVEN Spacecraft Shows Comprehensive Map Of Highly-Variable Ozone
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, and yielded a comprehensive map of highly-variable ozone in the atmosphere underlying the coronas.
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