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GOLD Powers on for the First Time

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Members of the GOLD science team gather with the instrument in a LASP clean room on December 1, 2016, just after the instrument went through its pre-ship review ahead of shipment to Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France. (Courtesy LASP)[/caption] The GOLD team powered on...

Contact Successfully Established With SES-14 Satellite Hosting GOLD

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Liftoff of the Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana at 5:20 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. GOLD is a hosted payload on the SES-14 commercial communication satellite, one of two satellites launched atop the Ariane 5 vehicle....

GOLD launches successfully onboard SES-14 satellite

UPDATE: SES-14 in good health and on track despite launch anomaly

GOLD is the first mission to study the weather of the thermosphere-ionosphere rather than its climate and the first NASA mission to fly as a hosted...

GOLD Mission to Image Earth’s Interface to Space

On Jan. 25, 2018, NASA launches Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, a hosted payload aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite. GOLD will investigate the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth’s uppermost atmosphere — and is the first NASA science mission to fly an instrument as a commercially hosted payload. Space is not...

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GOLD Powers on for the First Time

Contact Successfully Established With SES-14 Satellite Hosting GOLD

GOLD launches successfully onboard SES-14 satellite

GOLD Mission to Image Earth’s Interface to Space

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