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GOLD Will Revolutionize Our Understanding of Space Weather

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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. (Courtesy Arianespace)[/caption] NASA’s first mission to provide unprecedented measurements of, and changes in, the temperature and composition of Earth’s upper atmosphere launched...

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...

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...

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GOLD Will Revolutionize Our Understanding of Space Weather

GOLD launches successfully onboard SES-14 satellite

GOLD Mission to Image Earth’s Interface to Space

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

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