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Pegasus is on course to place its payload into orbit.
Image credit: NASA/Dryden
Using a Pegasus XL rocket carried aloft by a carrier aircraft, NASA launched
the AIM mission into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg AFB. Three science instruments
on the AIM payload will improve scientists’ understanding of Earth’s
highest clouds, which are believed to be harbingers of global climate change.
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SDL's expertise and capabilities result from long-term involvement in a broad
variety of atmospheric research programs. For almost five decades, SDL has instrumented
and performed measurements with hundreds of sounding rockets and scores of balloons,
aircraft, and satellites. Fom over 20 launch sites around the world, SDL has
completed over 400 successful missions. Early SDL programs have made inroads
into such areas as upper atmospheric modeling, cryogenics, environmental hardening,
infrared instrumentation and calibration, Earthlimb scanning, and transform
spectroscopy.
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