NASA created a Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) that launched in 2014. CATS is a remote sensing instrument to provide range-resolved profile measurements of atmospheric aerosols and clouds from the International Space Station (ISS). In simple English, it’s technology that interprets (and hel...
Since the advent of the Space Age, we've always relied on radio frequency communications to "chat" with both astronauts and spacecraft in orbit and beyond. But now, NASA is leveling up its communications system with one of the coolest, most space-y things ever: lasers. As part of NASA'...
Who cares about CATS?Asserts that cheap access to space (CATS) can restore the public's concern over space programs. Generation's lack of vision; Reaction to the accomplishments in the last 15 years; Implementation of CATS; Impact of NASA's failure with the shuttle.Oler...
smoke and other atmosphericaerosols, , scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed an instrument called the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, or CATS. The instrument, which launches to the International Space Station in December 2014, will explore new technolog...
The interactions between clouds and aerosols are illustrated in this image, taken by retired astronaut Chris Hadfield onboard the International Space Station. It shows contrails produced by aircraft (bright streaks) over the ocean. Credit: NASA/Chris Hadfield ...
Lidar and Laser Technology for NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Payload on the International Space Station (JEM-EF) This paper describes the ISS lidar technology provided by Fibertek, Inc. in support of the NASA GSFC CATS mission and provides an assessment of the in-flig... M ...
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The mission helped refine and streamline the process for putting future NASA payloads on the station. CATS was the first high repetition-rate, photon-counting lidar in space first NASA-developed payload for the Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility (JEM-EF) on the space station and ...
This experiment was part of a wider NASA mission(任务)called the Mice Drawer System(MDS). The Italian Space Agency developed the facility, which allows six mice to be housed, monitored, and automatically fed and watered aboard the ISS, among which three survived during the...
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