Sentences with phrase «space based infrared»

Professional system engineer / operator with 16 years of Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) with extensive ground system architecture and infrastructure knowledge while training / evaluating hundreds of system operators both Air Force and civilians.

Managed and executed Research and Development and Missile Defense Agency Funds for the Space Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS) Wing - a funding profile of $ 1.3 billion

Space Acquisitions: Space Based Infrared System Could Benefit from Technology Insertion Planning.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — AmericaSpace's team of photographers worked tirelessly to produce stunning images from the recent launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the second of the United States military's Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous (SBIRS GEO - 2) spacecraft.

Includes assessments of the following DOD space programs: Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellites, Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS), Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIIA, National Polar - orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIF, Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High, Space - Based Space Surveillance Block 10, and the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT).

Space Acquisitions: DOD's Goals for Resolving Space Based Infrared System Software Problems Are AmbitiousGAO -08-1073 September 30, 2008 (30 pages)

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This cycle is played out everywhere, including the weird trunk - like nebula called IC 5146, seen here in the far - infrared by Europe's space - based Herschel Observatory.

Space - based infrared telescopes like WISE allow astronomers to see past the hot, bright stars that dominate visible - light images and probe the subtle, cold regions of gas and dust where stars are born.

The James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be the largest space - based infrared telescope in history, will be able to see some of the light radiated from those very early galaxies; so where HERA sees a bubble, Webb should see a bright source of light, Hewitt Space Telescope, scheduled to be the largest space - based infrared telescope in history, will be able to see some of the light radiated from those very early galaxies; so where HERA sees a bubble, Webb should see a bright source of light, Hewitt space - based infrared telescope in history, will be able to see some of the light radiated from those very early galaxies; so where HERA sees a bubble, Webb should see a bright source of light, Hewitt said.

The team made their analysis using optical, infrared and hydrogen - emission data from the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as archival ground - based data.

The agency's astrophysics space observatories — Kepler, Swift, Spitzer, Chandra — and the ground - based Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii — also will be tracking the event.

One of those telescopes is Herschel, a space - based infrared observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency in collaboration with space - based infrared observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency in collaboration with Space Agency in collaboration with NASA.

By examining infrared data taken earlier by the Spitzer Space Telescope, they discovered a swath of dust particles ranging in size from 0.1 to 20 microns (finer than a split hair) that added up to the mass of a large asteroid and, based on their warmth, were strewn about 1.8 Earth — sun distances from the star.

But infrared observation is strictly a space - based game.

Beyond these, other space - based resources could investigate Alpha Centauri in visible, reflected light rather than infrared — providing crucial multiwavelength analysis that could pin down the true nature of any discovered worlds.

Recently, this paradigm had been challenged by far - infrared / sub-millimeter observations brought about by the advent of space observatories like Herschel and ground based interferometers like the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).

Astronomers Solange Ramírez and Deokkeun An of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena analyzed infrared spectra of the galactic center taken by Spitzer, one of NASA's space - based telescopes.

And two space - based infrared observatories — the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, which has been gathering data since last year, and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2014 — will allow astronomers to search for the infrared signatures of the specific icy radicals that Weaver's model predspace - based infrared observatories — the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, which has been gathering data since last year, and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2014 — will allow astronomers to search for the infrared signatures of the specific icy radicals that Weaver's model predSpace Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, which has been gathering data since last year, and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2014 — will allow astronomers to search for the infrared signatures of the specific icy radicals that Weaver's model predSpace Observatory, which has been gathering data since last year, and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2014 — will allow astronomers to search for the infrared signatures of the specific icy radicals that Weaver's model predSpace Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2014 — will allow astronomers to search for the infrared signatures of the specific icy radicals that Weaver's model predicts.

The budget also gives no hint of the administration's view of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), a space - based infrared observatory set to target dark energy nextInfrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), a space - based infrared observatory set to target dark energy nextinfrared observatory set to target dark energy next decade.

The APEX telescope in Chile has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere for the first time at submillimetre wavelengths — between infrared light and radio waves — and in finer detail than recent space - based surveys.

Our sample of 107 YSO candidates was selected based on IRAC colors from the high spatial resolution, high sensitivity Spitzer / IRAC images in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), which spans th... ▽ More We present results from our spectroscopic study, using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to identify massive young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Galactic Center (GC).

This instrument, referred to as GENIE (Ground based European Nulling Interferometer Experiment), is a proof - of - concept for the proposed ESA's InfraRed Space Interferometer — Darwin — devoted to the detection of Earth - like planets.

When it launches, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will also be able to scrutinize the atmospheres of some of the closest exoplanets, while the large surveys conducted by NASA's forthcoming WFIRST (Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope) and the ground - based LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) currently under construction in Chile, will also find many more exoplanets, complementing the work done by TESS and Kepler before it.

Dressler chaired the panel of the NRC's 2010 astronomy and astrophysics decadal survey, New Worlds, New Horizons (NWNH), that recommended a mission called the Wide - Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) as the top priority for a large space mission for the next decade of space - based astrophysics research.

With the high thermal backgrounds of ground - based infrared observations, a near - infrared full sky survey at sub-uJy sensitivity is only feasible from space.

More specifically, the researchers sought out to determine whether NASA's infrared orbiting observatory could be used to make space - based parallax measurements of microlensing events soon after they had been recorded from ground - based telescopes.

On February 21, 2012, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced that they had obtained strong supporting evidence that GJ 1214 b mostly likely has a steamy atmosphere of water based on analysis of its colors in infrared light.

The photodetector array camera and spectrometer (PACS) aboard the Herschel Space Observatory allows imaging observations in the far infrared at unprecedented resolution, i.e. at better than 6» to 12» over the wavelength range of 60 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m to 210 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m. Together with the results from ground - based observations, these spatially resolved data can be modelled to determine the nature of the debris and its evolution more reliably than would be possible from unresolved data alone.

The satellite - based sensor MODIS can detect the signal of fire hot spots, also called thermal anomalies, because the signal measured by the sensor in space in the thermal infrared bands appears to be an anomaly compared to the signal emanated from the background land.