{"id":59891,"date":"2020-04-21T18:15:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T10:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-dynamics-lab-delivers-test-unit-for-nasas-ocean-ecosystem-mission\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T10:15:28","slug":"space-dynamics-lab-delivers-test-unit-for-nasas-ocean-ecosystem-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-dynamics-lab-delivers-test-unit-for-nasas-ocean-ecosystem-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Dynamics Lab Delivers Test Unit for NASA\u2019s Ocean Ecosystem Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Space Dynamics Laboratory<\/strong> (SDL) has recently delivered an engineering test unit of the Short-Wave Infrared Detection Assembly, to <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center. This is a major subcomponent on NASA\u2019s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem spacecraft (PACE).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PACE, which is scheduled to launch in late 2022, is designed to extend and improve NASA\u2019s satellite observations of global ocean biology, aerosols, and clouds. The instrument SDL designing, which is known as the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), will measure properties of light over portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, with the goal of enabling scientists to view continuous measurements of light made with higher resolution than is currently available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe delivery of the engineering test unit for the [Short-Wave Infrared] Detection Assembly is a critical milestone that will enable NASA to perform several months of rigorous instrument-level testing to prove the flight design currently being built at SDL,\u201d said Gabe Loftus, SDL\u2019s program manager for OCI. \u201cOnce launched, the flight-ready instrument will image the ocean from the ultraviolet to the near-infrared spectrum, giving NASA critical information on ocean ecology with unprecedented fidelity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) has recently delivered an engineering test unit of the Short-Wave Infrared Detection Assembly, to NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center. This is a major subcomponent on NASA\u2019s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem spacecraft (PACE).&nbsp; PACE, which is scheduled to launch in late 2022, is designed to extend and improve NASA\u2019s satellite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}