{"id":80941,"date":"2013-06-07T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martins-solar-satellite-built-for-nasa-prepares-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2013-06-07T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:51:07","slug":"lockheed-martins-solar-satellite-built-for-nasa-prepares-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martins-solar-satellite-built-for-nasa-prepares-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin\u2019s Solar Satellite Built for NASA Prepares for Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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\nInterface Region Imaging Spectograph (IRIS) satellite in Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif., with the solar telescope and bus structure fully integrated.<\/i>
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[Satellite TODAY 06-07-13] NASA\u2019<\/b>s next scientific satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin<\/b>\u2018s Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif., has been scheduled for launch June 26. <\/p>\n

     The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission will provide the most detailed look ever at the sun\u2019s lower atmosphere or interface region. This region, located between the sun\u2019s visible surface and upper atmosphere, is where most of the star\u2019s ultraviolet emission is generated. These emissions impact the near-Earth space environment and Earth\u2019s climate. <\/p>\n

     The IRIS spacecraft will launch aboard an Orbital Sciences Corp.<\/b> Pegasus 40 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast. <\/p>\n

\n     IRIS carries an ultraviolet telescope that feeds a multi-channel imaging spectrograph. The satellite is the first mission designed to use an ultraviolet telescope to obtain high-resolution images and spectra every few seconds and provide observations of areas as small as 150 miles across the sun. <\/p>\n

     “Previous observations suggest there are structures in this region of the solar atmosphere 100 to 150 miles wide, but 100,000 miles long,” said Alan Title, IRIS principal investigator at Lockheed Martin. “Imagine giant jets like huge fountains that have a footprint the size of Los Angeles and are long enough and fast enough to circle Earth in 20 seconds. IRIS will provide our first high-resolution views of these structures along with information about their velocity, temperature and density,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

     NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., will provide IRIS mission operations and ground data systems. The Norwegian Space Centre<\/b> in Oslo, Norway, will provide regular downlinks of science data. And NASA\u2019s Launch Services Program at the agency\u2019s Kennedy Space Center is responsible for launch management.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interface Region Imaging Spectograph (IRIS) satellite in Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif., with the solar telescope and bus structure fully integrated. Image credit: Lockheed Martin [Satellite TODAY 06-07-13] NASA\u2019s next scientific satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin\u2018s Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif., has been scheduled for launch June 26.      […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-80941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80941"}],"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=80941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}