In response to the recommendations made in the National Research Council' s Ear th Science and Applications 2007 Decadal Sur vey, NASA has initiated the Ear th Venture line of mission oppor tunities. The fir st orbital mission chosen for this competitively selected, cost and schedule constrained, Pr incipal Investigator -led oppor tunity is the CYclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS). The goal of CYGNSS is to understand the coupling between ocean sur face proper ties, moist atmospher ic thermodynamics, radiation, and convective dynamics in the inner core of a tropical cyclone. The CYGNSS mission is compr ised of eight Low Ear th Obser ving (LEO) micr osatellites that use GPS bi-static scatterometry to measure ocean sur face winds.


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    Title :

    Early Development of the First Earth Venture Mission: How CYGNSS Is Using Engineering Models to Validate the Design


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    Conference:

    IEEE Aerospace Conference 2015 ; 2015 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Publication date :

    2015-03-05


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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