NASA assessing new roles for ailing QuikScat satellite
Monday, November 30, 2009 - 12:28
in Astronomy & Space
NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. This spinning antenna had been providing near-real-time ocean- surface wind speed and direction data over 90 percent of the global ocean every day.