Sentence examples for passive mission from inspiring English sources

Steven Running, chair of a NASA earth science advisory committee meeting, was pleased both with the request, as well as with a year that had seen the launch of three major missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, joint with the Japanese Space Agency; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission; and the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, which just launched on 31 January.

This network is intended for use (in part) as a core validation site for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.

The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission produced a daily landscape FT product at 3-km spatial resolution derived from ascending and descending orbits of SMAP high-resolution L-band (1.4 GHz) radar measurements.

Once fully deployed, the 2,000-pound 2,000-poundaim two micraftve-emitting instruments at the Earth's surface and collect data that will enaime two agency to determine the moisture content of the top two inches of soil planetwide and to calculate water depth to about three feet, said Jared Entin, NASA's Washington-based project scientist for the Soil Moisture Active Passinstrumentsmission.

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite mission provides hemispheric estimates of landscape FT state at a spatial resolution of approximately 362 km2.

The proposed approach is based on the blending of the geostationary meteosat second generation (MSG), infrared channel with the low-earth orbiting passive tropical rainfall measuring mission (TRMM).

Many partner with Bond on the assignment, while others such as Honey Ryder are solely passive participants in the mission.

The analysis uses the data of ten historical missions with documented passive attitude stabilisation strategies to reduce uncertainties.