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NASA gets 8 SATS up on a rocket dropped from the Stargazer

OCEANIC FIZZY POP NINE · 2016-12-19 03:35:06

Stargazer^^^ Orbital ATKs modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. The rocket on its belly was carrying NASAs NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, 8 mini SATS that'll be used to track hurricanes by the hours instead of days in the tropics and provide early warning systems.…

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Orbital ATKs modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar.

The rocket on its belly was carrying NASAs NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, 8 mini SATS that'll be used to track hurricanes by the hours instead of days in the tropics and provide early warning systems.

Traditional wind-monitoring satellites fire signals down to Earth and then measure the strength of the echo back. That means they are large, complex, and expensive to build, since they need powerful transmitters and receivers.

However, CYGNSS satellites just have receivers. They take their signals from the GPS system [PDF] and use those to work out the wind speed on the surface.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/nasa_orbital_atk_cygnss_launch/

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