NASA climate satellite gets quick repair
FEB 23, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025076
Space.com : NASA’s newest Earth-studying satellite, Glory, was made ready to launch by today, but only after an unusually quick fix by the firm Honeybee Robotics, writes Clara Moskowitz for Space.com. The New Yorkâbased company was able to design, test, and provide a substitute part for the satellite in eight weeks. That kind of time scale is unheard of in the typical process of building spacecraft mechanisms, said Kiel Davis, president of Honeybee Robotics. But because of the company’s having an expert on staff, and its engineers working around the clock, including four straight weekends, they pulled it off. Glory will gather data regarding aerosols and how they interact with the atmosphere to affect climate.
© 2011 American Institute of Physics
