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New CubeSats To Test Earth Science Tech In Space

New CubeSats To Test Earth Science Tech In Space

By Eachann Abimbola

newcubesatstSometimes we need to leave our home planet to better understand it. Before Earth-observing missions launch, NASA must verify instruments on board will work as expected. This is not always an easy task when space presents such a different environment than Earth. But thanks to CubeSats, cube-shaped satellites that can be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand or as big as a large shoebox, testing new technologies in space is easier than ever. To take advantage of the space-bound opportunities these small satellites offer, the Earth Science Technology office, or ESTO, part of NASA’s Earth Science Division, has selected four new projects to be developed, built and launched into low-Earth orbit. These four projects will test emerging technologies that could enable new and improved understanding of the planet. These include two projects from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

“Most Earth science phenomena measurements can be improved by sustained observations with increased spatial and temporal resolution. Validating these new compact instrument subsystems today will enable the relevant constellation measurements of the future,” said ESTO program associate Charles Norton of JPL and the California Institute of Technology.

The Four New InVEST CubeSat Selections Are:

CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation

(CubeRRT) – Joel Johnson of Ohio State University will lead the development of CubeRRT, a project to observe, detect and mitigate radio frequency interference (RFI) for microwave radiometers, an instrument that measures Earth’s properties, including atmospheric water vapor or soil moisture. RFI is a growing problem in radiometry due to increasing demand for use on the spectrum for communications. If successful, CubeRRT technologies will address gaps in existing RFI mitigation technologies to increase the amount of high quality radiometer data collected by future Earth-observing missions.

Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space (CIRiS) – CIRiS, led by David Osterman of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, will adapt an existing instrument to be CubeSat-compatible to validate instrument performance in low-Earth orbit. The CIRiS mission will also validate data-processing algorithms as well as on-orbit instrument calibration – important for enabling new instruments that could be used in a variety of missions, including future Landsats. Multiple CIRiS satellites flying in formation could replace larger or more complex instruments and satellites. The data collected could be used for land and water resource management, research and modeling.

CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) – Thomas Pagano of JPL is leading the CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) project. CIRAS is designed to develop a CubeSat-size instrument system capable of matching the temperature and water vapor profile measurements in the lower troposphere of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, or AIRS, instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite and the Cross Track Infrared Sounder, or CrIS, instrument on the NASA/NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System. In the future, constellations of CIRAS satellites could improve the timeliness and resolution of critical infrared sounding data to improve weather forecasting and support research in the areas of severe weather and climate.

Precipitation Profiling Radar In A CubeSat (RainCube) – RainCube, led by Eva Peral of JPL, will be the first active radar on a CubeSat platform. It will use a very compact deployable antenna and new processing technologies to validate a Ka-band precipitation radar. A constellation of RainCube satellites would be able to provide the temporal resolution for weather observations that could be used to improve forecasting models.

These quick-turnaround projects, once validated, have the potential to improve and supplement Earth science observations available to researchers worldwide covering topics from weather to climate, and soil moisture to land use.

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Guidelines: Mysteries Of The Changing Face Of Entertainment News And Reviews In The 21st Century

Guidelines: Mysteries Of The Changing Face Of Entertainment News And Reviews In The 21st Century

By Eachann Abimbola

Despite whether it’s the latest gathering studies or news about the gigantic spending films that will hit the silver screens, the scene of entertainment news all through the business changed unalterably in the approach of the 21st century. In spite of the way that the basic foundations for the immense move were at first set up from the mid to last 1990s, the full effects of the move have recently started to hit totally all through the 2000s. By and by, in the adolescents of a radical new thousand years the move is for all intents and purposes add up to, speeding up news and reviews ask for and on the web.

All through the 1900s, entertainment news was, all things considered, the region of print conveyances. Magazines and newspapers have been including the latest and most imperative from the business since before the First World War. In any case, it was the 60s that saw them make their stamp, in all probability prompted on by the rise of in-home entertainment with the improvement of TV openness and the stone and move impact.

Magazines like NME and Melody Maker had superb readership figures in their underlying years and newspapers like the Sun in the United Kingdom gained a considerable amount of their ground from covering the all the more stunning side of life. Nevertheless, as the home PC snatched hold in the last periods of the nineteenth century, another sort of entertainment news provider started to develop. The web transformed into a ponder overnight in the mid to late 90s and as a regularly expanding number of people marked on, a consistently expanding number of people found their news from online sources.

Over the traverse of the dot.com impact and bust, destinations hopped up at a wild pace to pass on the latest entertainment news to the larger part. Quickly following these early trailblazers once the online wonder grabbed to some degree more consistent quality, the primary providers moreover set up areas to pass on their news and to propel their “accessible to be bought” detached arrangements. In any case, it didn’t take throb for the greater part themselves to comprehend that they could without a lot of an extend transform into the bastions of everything entertainment. All through the 2000s they simply set up their own blog or e-zine and started to log the news, web style. With millions live, everyone is talking about their most adored movies, accumulations and PC entertainments from their own extraordinary site page, interlinking to the more convincing, more prominent news goals, and furthermore the on the web, customer made widely inclusive catacombs of Wikipedia.

The zone of most prominent advancement in the online entertainment news world is the improvement of video content. People never again need to go to the silver screen to see the latest film trailer or sit tight for radio shows to tune in to the latest gathering reviews, they can watch them at whatever point they need, months and even quite a while early of a release by virtue of the might of any similarity of You Tube. With more video content than Saddam Hussein’s eldest kid, You Tube is the web’s greatest video content dealer. Entertainment news, reviews and data has constantly been a noteworthy bit of online video content, regardless, the likelihood is that it will form into something significantly more basic through the traverse of the 21st century.

The most recent extension to entertainment news movement is the gigantic impact of internet organizing. Together, people related online can change the world, so something as direct as entertainment news was an early win for the social socialites. Despite whether it’s used to progress other online substance like trailers, music releases or enormous name jibber jabber, or in reality only youngsters in their room tweeting about their latest most cherished gathering, electronic long range interpersonal communication is one of the principle spots to hear the most cutting edge entertainment news.

As the 21st century gathers pace, the online plan of entertainment news is creeping dependably unequivocally onto the toes of the old media thoughts. Right when people need to perceive what’s happening they never again sit tight for the morning paper, not to mention one week from now’s magazine, they basically go on the web and find it themselves.

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New CubeSats To Test Earth Science Tech In Space

New CubeSats To Test Earth Science Tech In Space

By Eachann Abimbola

newcubesatstSometimes we need to leave our home planet to better understand it. Before Earth-observing missions launch, NASA must verify instruments on board will work as expected. This is not always an easy task when space presents such a different environment than Earth. But thanks to CubeSats, cube-shaped satellites that can be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand or as big as a large shoebox, testing new technologies in space is easier than ever. To take advantage of the space-bound opportunities these small satellites offer, the Earth Science Technology office, or ESTO, part of NASA’s Earth Science Division, has selected four new projects to be developed, built and launched into low-Earth orbit. These four projects will test emerging technologies that could enable new and improved understanding of the planet. These include two projects from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

“Most Earth science phenomena measurements can be improved by sustained observations with increased spatial and temporal resolution. Validating these new compact instrument subsystems today will enable the relevant constellation measurements of the future,” said ESTO program associate Charles Norton of JPL and the California Institute of Technology.

The Four New InVEST CubeSat Selections Are:

CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation

(CubeRRT) – Joel Johnson of Ohio State University will lead the development of CubeRRT, a project to observe, detect and mitigate radio frequency interference (RFI) for microwave radiometers, an instrument that measures Earth’s properties, including atmospheric water vapor or soil moisture. RFI is a growing problem in radiometry due to increasing demand for use on the spectrum for communications. If successful, CubeRRT technologies will address gaps in existing RFI mitigation technologies to increase the amount of high quality radiometer data collected by future Earth-observing missions.

Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space (CIRiS) – CIRiS, led by David Osterman of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, will adapt an existing instrument to be CubeSat-compatible to validate instrument performance in low-Earth orbit. The CIRiS mission will also validate data-processing algorithms as well as on-orbit instrument calibration – important for enabling new instruments that could be used in a variety of missions, including future Landsats. Multiple CIRiS satellites flying in formation could replace larger or more complex instruments and satellites. The data collected could be used for land and water resource management, research and modeling.

CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) – Thomas Pagano of JPL is leading the CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) project. CIRAS is designed to develop a CubeSat-size instrument system capable of matching the temperature and water vapor profile measurements in the lower troposphere of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, or AIRS, instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite and the Cross Track Infrared Sounder, or CrIS, instrument on the NASA/NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System. In the future, constellations of CIRAS satellites could improve the timeliness and resolution of critical infrared sounding data to improve weather forecasting and support research in the areas of severe weather and climate.

Precipitation Profiling Radar In A CubeSat (RainCube) – RainCube, led by Eva Peral of JPL, will be the first active radar on a CubeSat platform. It will use a very compact deployable antenna and new processing technologies to validate a Ka-band precipitation radar. A constellation of RainCube satellites would be able to provide the temporal resolution for weather observations that could be used to improve forecasting models.

These quick-turnaround projects, once validated, have the potential to improve and supplement Earth science observations available to researchers worldwide covering topics from weather to climate, and soil moisture to land use.

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