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The Afternoon Constellation


The Afternoon Constellation - A-Train

The Afternoon Train, or 'A-Train', for short, is a constellation of satellites that travel one behind the other, along the same track, as they orbit Earth.

A-train (satellite constellation) - Wikipedia

The A-train (from Afternoon Train) is a satellite constellation of four Earth observation satellites of varied nationality in Sun-synchronous orbit at an ...

Formation Flying: The Afternoon A-Train Satellite Constellation

Formation Flying: The Afternoon A-Train Satellite Constellation. Reference Type: Publications. Thumbnail Image: File: PDF icon A-Train_Fact_sheet.pdf. Series ...

The A-Train - American Geosciences Institute

satellite missions, is called the Afternoon Constellation, or the A-Train, for short. The satellites are in a polar orbit, crossing the equator at about. 1 ...

NASA takes the A-Train on Earth Day - WRAL.com

This afternoon constellation of Earth observing satellites, nicknamed A-Train for the Aqua and Aura missions that that began it, work ...

The afternoon constellation: a formation of Earth observing systems ...

Between Aura and Aqua a series of smaller satellites will be stationed: Cloudsat, CALIPSO (formerly PICASSO/CENA), and PARASOL. This constellation of low Earth ...

Satellite Constellations: Taking a Collective Look at Earth from 705 ...

Jim Lacasse, the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Landsat Mission Operations Project Manager out at the Earth Resources Observation and ...

[PDF] Formation Flying: The Afternoon “A-Train” Satellite Constellation

Formation Flying: The Afternoon “A-Train” Satellite Constellation · Published 2003 · Engineering, Physics, Environmental Science. These articles discuss ...

Aqua Satellite, part of the Earth Observation System Afternoon ...

Aqua, launched on 4th April 2002, is a polar-orbiting satellite within the Afternoon Constellation (A-Train) that have equator crossings around 13:30 and ...

CloudSat's position in the Afternoon Constellation or A -Train 1

NASA's pioneering cloud profiling radar satellite, CloudSat, experienced a battery anomaly that placed it into emergency mode and rendered it operations ...

The Afternoon Constellation (A-Train) - elwyn's climate change page

The satellites, currently 6 in number, are in a polar orbit, crossing the equator northbound at about 1:30 p.m. local time, within seconds to minutes of each ...

The A-Train Constellation of Satellites (IMAGE) - EurekAlert!

This graphic (not to scale) depicts the satellites that make up the Afternoon Constellation -- the "A-Train." Note also that CALIPSO trails CloudSat by only ...

Coordination of predicted conjunctions between NASA satellites and

This paper describes one of the challenges facing the flight operations teams of the International Earth Observing constellation satellites at the 705 km orbit, ...

Eyes on Earth Episode 26 – Satellite Constellations - YouTube

Between them, Landsats 7 and 8 image the entire land surface of Earth every eight days. The USGS orbiters are just two of many Earth ...

A-train constellation satellites - Colorado State University

There have been as many as 7 different satellites in the A-train constellation, but a maximum of only 6 at one time: EOS-Aqua, EOS-Aura1, CloudSat, CALIPSO, ...

Glory will join the Afternoon Constellation - Flickr

Glory will join the Afternoon Constellation or "A-train" of polar-orbiting satellites, a group that includes the Aqua and Aura satellites.

Aqua Satellite Mission, part of the Earth Observing System Afternoon ...

Project · Aqua Satellite Mission, part of the Earth Observing System Afternoon Constellation (EOS-PM).

analysis for monitoring - CORE

The Earth Science Afternoon Constellation consists of Aqua, Aura, PARASOL,. CALIPSO, Cloudsat, and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO). The.

The A-Train, or Afternoon... - NASA GLOBE Observer - Facebook

The A-Train, or Afternoon Constellation, is a group of satellites that takes near-simultaneous observations of the same area by flying in ...

The Earth Science Afternoon Constellation Contingency Procedures

Book overview. The Earth Science Afternoon Constellation comprises NASA missions Aqua, Aura, CloudSat and the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) ...