NASA is scheduled to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire Moon, tomorrow, June 18. One of the instruments aboard, the Diviner Lunar Radiometer ...

Development of advanced radiometer instruments for specialized radio astronomy experiments. Contributions include the antenna, front-end, and receiver for the Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of ...

NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured new imagery of variations in surface-temperature patterns in Los Angeles County. The first of its kind ...

The 57.8-kilogram Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR), developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has a 75-centimeter reflector. COWVR's scan mechanism, feed horn, receivers, noise source ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama -- In another year in which the weather has dominated the news around the world, it is fitting to pause and recognize the early advances in meteorological exploration. One ...

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