Jan 24 2003
From The Space Library
NASA launched SORCE ~ its Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment satellite~from a Pegasus XL rocket dropped from a jet plane 140 miles offshore over the Atlantic Ocean. On board the satellite were five instruments designed to help scientists better understand how the Sun affects Earth's climate. SORCE's high-precision instruments could measure total radiation from the Sun, and its spectrometers could analyze light in all its various wavelengths, capturing information that scientists hoped would help them build a long-term data set that future generations would use. (NASA, “NASA's SORCE Satellite Soars into Space To Catch Some Rays,” news release 03-022, 27 January 2003 , ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2003/03-022.txt (accessed 9 July 2008); Associated Press, “NASA Launches Satellite To Measure Sun's Radiation,” 25 January 2003.
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