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ICON & GOLD Teaming Up To Explore Earth’s Interface to Space

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Bright swaths of red and green, known as airglow, are visible in this visualization of Earth's limb with the SES-14 satellite and GOLD rising above it. Airglow occurs when gases in the upper atmosphere become charged by the Sun's radiation, emitting light. By measuring...

January 5, 2018

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Airbus, CU Boulder, Doug Rowland, Explorer Program, GOLD, GSFC, ICON, JHU APL, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, LASP, NASA, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Richard Eastes, Sarah Jones, SES-14, TIMED, UCF, University of Central Florida, University of Colorado Boulder

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GOLD team successfully completes environmental testing

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The GOLD instrument (the gray and white object located on the front right corner of the top deck) has completed environmental testing and is shown here on the SES-14 spacecraft in preparation for a scheduled January 2018 launch date. (Courtesy Airbus)
[/caption] NASA's Global-scale Observations of...

December 14, 2017

Tom Mason

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Airbus, Computational Physics, Florida Space Institute, FSI, Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, Goddard Space Flight Center, GOLD, GSFC, Inc., Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, LASP, NASA, NASA Goddard, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NCAR, NOAA, Richard Eastes, Rory Barrett, SES, SES Government Solutions, SES-14, Tom Mason, UCF, University of California at Berkeley, University of Central Florida, University of Colorado Boulder, Virginia Tech

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GOLD installed on commercial communications satellite

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The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument is hoisted up and installed onto the SES-14 commercial communications satellite, which is being assembled at Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France. The GOLD instrument is now slated to proceed through a series...

May 17, 2017

Tom Mason

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Airbus, Airbus Defence and Space, Computational Physics, Computational Physics Inc., CU Boulder, Explorer Program, GOLD, GSFC, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, LASP, NASA, NASA Goddard, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NCAR, NOAA, Richard Eastes, SES Government Solutions, SES-14, UC-Berkeley, UCF, University of California at Berkeley, University of Central Florida, University of Colorado Boulder

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GOLD one step closer to launching into space

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The GOLD instrument arrives in its shipping container at Airbus Defence & Space in Toulouse, France on January 4, 2017. Team members performed successful tests, inspection, and checkout of the instrument, which will next be mounted on the SES-14 commercial communications satellite that will...

February 1, 2017

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ICON & GOLD Teaming Up To Explore Earth’s Interface to Space

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