Radio occultation (RO) instrument from Beyond Gravity. GRAS’ zenith-pointing antenna tracks a number of GPS satellites in range. This is indicated by the blue lines. The track-line changes to yellow ...

The SwRI-developed Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) is integrated into NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory satellite to provide real-time, 24/7 observations of the solar ...

Anna Mani, the Indian physicist who built the instruments that gave independent India the ability to measure its own weather, mapped the country's solar radiation and wind energy potential, and helped ...

In a one-week period, Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to complete two 20-month studies on new instruments to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary ...

A $32 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument package set for launch Feb. 9 by NASA should help scientists better understand the violent effects of the Sun on near-Earth space weather ...

While supercomputers, radar and ground-based observations all play crucial roles, it is satellites that have truly transformed our ability to monitor the atmosphere on a global scale. But how do they ...