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The search for C produced 6 results out of 249 records CALIPSO Launch Date: 04/28/2006 The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite mission is pleased to announce an initial release of its data products. CALIPSO provides new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols (airborne particles) play in regulating Earth's weather, climate, and air quality. Other Name(s):   |  GSFC Link  |  NSSDC Link  |  Additional URL 1  |  Image Gallery  |  Educational Resource  |   CAS/EOLE Launch Date: 08/16/1971 EOLE 1, the second French experimental meteorological satellite and the first launched by NASA under a cooperative agreement with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). It was designed to obtain data on winds, temperature, and pressures using instrumented balloons launched from Argentina. The spacecraft was subsequently used to track and receive data from ocean buoys, icebergs, and ships. Other Name(s):  EOLE 1, EOLE |  NSSDC Link  |   CHIPS Launch Date: 01/12/2003 The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) spacecraft was the first University Explorer (UNEX) spacecraft. It will study the very hot, very low density gas in vast spaces between stars in our local astronomical neighborhood. CHIPS data will help scientists determine the electron temperature, ionization conditions, and cooling mechanisms of the million-degree plasma believed to fill the local interstellar bubble. The CHIPS instrument was carried in space aboard CHIPSat, a dedicated spacecraft built by SpaceDev, Inc., and launched from the second stage of a Boeing Delta II rocket, along with a second spacecraft ICESat. Other Name(s):  Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer |  NSSDC Link  |  Additional URL 1  |  Additional URL 2  |  Educational Resource  |   CloudSat Launch Date: 04/28/2006 CloudSat is an experimental satellite that will use radar to study clouds and precipitation from space. CloudSat will be launched together with the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) will fly in orbital formation as part of the A-train constellation of satellites (Aqua, CloudSat, PARASOL, and Aura). Other Name(s):   |  GSFC Link  |  NSSDC Link  |  Additional URL 1  |  Additional URL 2  |  Educational Resource  |   COBE Launch Date: 11/18/1989 The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) spacecraft provided the most comprehensive observations to date of radioactive content of the Universe. The COBE satellite was developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe to the limits set by our astrophysical environment. It carried three instruments, a Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS), a Differential Microwave Radiometer (DMR), and a Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE). Other Name(s):  Cosmic Background Explorer, Explorer 66 |  GSFC Link  |  Project Information  |  NSSDC Link  |  Additional URL 1  |  Additional URL 2  |  Image Gallery  |  Educational Resource  |   CRRES Launch Date: 07/25/1990 The Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) mission was launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) for a nominal three-year mission to investigate fields, plasmas, and energetic particles inside the Earth's magnetosphere. The CRRES mission is a joint NASA and U.S. Department of Defense undertaking to study the near-Earth space environment and the effects of the Earth's radiation environment on state-of-the-art microelectronic components. The three primary mission objectives of CRRES is to study the effects of the natural radiation environment on microelectronic components and on high-efficiency gallium arsenide solar cells and to map this environment; to conduct low-altitude satellite studies of ionospheric irregularities (LASSII); and to conduct a series of chemical release experiments in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. In order to accomplish these objectives, CRRES was launched with a complex array of scientific payloads. Other Name(s):  Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite, P86-1 |  NSSDC Link  |  Additional URL 1  |