The new NASA climate satellite PACE will soon examine the state of the oceans and air quality. Technology from Austria will also fly aboard a SpaceX rocket from the US spaceport Cape Canaveral next Tuesday.
Parts of the satellite’s navigation system and thermal insulation come from the Viennese company Beyond Gravity Austria (formerly RUAG Space), the company announced on Friday. “The centimeter-accurate position of the satellite in space is determined using technology from Austria. The more accurate the positioning, the more accurate the data the satellite provides,” said Kurt Kober, Managing Director of Beyond Gravity.
The acronym PACE summarizes the mission’s observation spectrum, as it stands for ‘plankton’, ‘aerosol’ (for example, small dust particles in the atmosphere), ‘cloud’ and ‘ocean ecosystem’.
The company Beyond Gravity has previously supplied parts for NASA missions, but this is the US space agency’s first direct order, it is said.
Source: Krone
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