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NASA to launch ocean wind monitor to space station

Submit on Tuesday, January 29th, 2013 22:57

Reusing hardware originally built to test parts of NASA’s QuikScat satellite, the agency plans to launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean-surface wind speed and direction.

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