NASA Inaugurates New Space Station Era as Earth Science Observation Platform with RapidScat Instrument

NASA inaugurated a new era of research for the International Space Station (ISS) as an Earth observation platform following the successful installation and activation of the ISS-RapidScat science instrument on the outposts exterior. The ISS Rapid Scatterometer, or ISS-RapidScat, is NASA's first research payload aimed at conducting near global Earth science from the stations exterior […]