加载中…国家航空航天局局长视察“地球年”使命进展情况
(2013-08-19 11:12:25)
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国家航空航天局局长查尔斯•博尔顿视察NASA喷气实验室组装两项地球使命所需设备的进度。
国家航空航天局（NASA）局长查尔斯•博尔顿（Charles Bolden）于8月13日视察了两项地球使命的进展情况。这两项使命所需的设备目前正在位于加州帕萨迪纳市（Pasadena）的NASA喷气推进实验室（Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL）中组装，预定于2014年发射。
喷气推进实验室具有历史意义的航天器装配厂（Spacecraft Assembly Facility）的技师们正在一尘不染的工作室内组装NASA的土壤水分有源-无源探测航天器（Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft）。该航天器将制作跟踪地球水资源的全球土壤水分图。技师们也在组装将被安装在国际空间站外用来测量海洋表面风力的国际空间站快速散射仪（ISS-RapidScat）。
上图为博尔顿（左）正在向喷气推进实验室的飞行系统工程师韦恩•李（Wayne Lee，右）了解土壤水分有源-无源探测航天器的雷达装置组装情况。
国际空间站快速散射仪将按计划于2014年4月发射，土壤水分有源-无源探测航天器将于2014年10月发射。喷气推进实验室的第3个地球使命是轨道碳观测器2号（Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, OCO-2），按计划它将于2014年7月发射，目前正在位于亚利桑那州吉尔伯特市（Gilbert, Arizona）的轨道科学公司（Orbital Sciences Corporation）的一处设施中进行最后的组装和调试。轨道碳观测器2号将是NASA的第1个地球遥感卫星，专门用于从太空研究大气中的二氧化碳。
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden checks on the progress of two Earth missions being built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on August 13 checked on the progress of two Earth missions being built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, for launch in 2014.
Technicians in JPL’s historic Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room are assembling NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft, which will produce global maps of soil moisture for tracking water availability around the planet, and ISS-RapidScat, a scatterometer instrument that will be mounted outside the International Space Station to measure ocean surface winds.
Above, Bolden (left) learns about SMAP’s radar instrument assembly from Wayne Lee (right), a flight systems engineer with JPL.
ISS-RapidScat is scheduled to launch in April 2014 and SMAP in October 2014. A third JPL Earth mission, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), is scheduled for launch in July 2014 and is in final assembly and testing at an Orbital Sciences Corporation facility in Gilbert, Arizona. OCO-2 will be NASA’s first dedicated Earth remote-sensing satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide from space.
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