New doppler radar wind profiler will replace old system near shuttle landing facility
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 14:31
in Astronomy & Space
As NASA moves forward next year to place instruments on the International Space Station to take ocean-surface wind speed and direction measurements, the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program office at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has plans of its own to upgrade decades-old wind measurement equipment near the center's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF).