NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument, built by CU Boulder, launched today from Kourou, French Guiana aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite built by ...

The extremely low operational temperature of just a tenth of a degree above absolute zero (0.1 K) has been reached on the detectors of Planck’s High Frequency Instrument (HFI). This makes the HFI ...

A multimillion dollar University of Colorado Boulder instrument package to study space weather has passed its pre-installation testing and is ready to be incorporated onto a National Oceanic and ...

LOS ANGELES — A cooling problem with a key instrument on a weather satellite launched less than three months ago could degrade its performance for at least part of each day, with potential but still ...

Provides 3X spectral coverage; 4X resolution; 5X faster than previous generation of satellites Strengthens NOAA’s environmental and weather monitoring Heralds next generation of weather satellite ...