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Manufacturing engineer, Roman Nilov, inspects flight hardware after technicians install the Short Wave Infrared...
Engineers and technicians prepare for a crane lift to deintegrate the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) from the Tilt...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., the Solar Electron and Proton...
Systems engineer, Joseph Knuble, adjusts the intensity of a lamp during stray light testing on the Ocean Color...
The flight Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) is connected to flex lines and other alignment calibration hardware in a...
Mechanical technician, Thomas Huber and mechanical engineer Peter Steigner, install an electronic box onto the Ocean...
Quality engineer, John Tota, poses with a magnifying glass and stands close to the textured wall in the Electro...
Mechanical technician, Dave Nolan, tightens bolts on the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) Short Wave Infrared (SWIR)...
Mechanical technician, Andrew Scharmann, slides a lift fixture into position to ensure the Ocean Color Instrument...
Mechanical technicians, Nicholas Kwiatkowski and Thomas Huber, guide the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) as it is...
The Microwave Temperature Profiler, or MTP is a passive microwave radiometer, which measures the natural thermal...
Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite's science instrument payload sits in a clean room at...
STEP will carry concentric test masses to Earth orbit to test a fundamental assumption underlying Einstein's theory...
Aerospace Engineer, Daniel Senai, inspects the Solar Calibration Assembly (SCA) Life Test Unit mechanism for the...
Mechanical technicians reorient the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) Optical Module on a rotation fixture to allow for...
Side-by-side images depict NASA's Curiosity rover (left) and a moon buggy driven during the Apollo 16 mission. Moon...
Test conductor, Lucas Tucker, monitors thermal vacuum testing operations in the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) control...
Thermal blanket technicians, Aldine Joseph-pierre and Paula Cain, adjust blankets on the Ocean Color Instrument...
NASA's new laser instrument, the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation, or GEDI, has advanced laser technology...
With extreme cold-weather gear, scientific instruments, and two tank-like snow machines called PistenBullys, NASA...
S88-37764 (18 April 1988) --- OASIS, instrumentation which will record the environment experienced by Discovery...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's International Space Station-RapidScat scatterometer instrument arrives at the Space...
The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 is slated to launch in September to measure the height of Earth’s...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's International Space Station-RapidScat scatterometer instrument is revealed inside...