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Aeolus switches over to backup laser

Submit on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 22:57

ESA’s Aeolus satellite, which carries the world’s first space Doppler wind lidar, has been delivering global measurements of Earth’s wind since it was launched almost a year ago. However, part of the instrument, the laser transmitter, has been slowly losing energy. As a result, ESA decided to switch over to the instrument’s second laser.

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