High expectations of SWOT team. 'Game changer' satellite to study seas, lakes, rivers (Page 1/1)
rinselberg DEC 17, 10:56 AM
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“For freshwater, this will be a quantum leap in terms of our knowledge,” said Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, KaRIn instrument manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, in a statement.

The spacecraft will view nearly all rivers wider than 330 feet (100 meters) and capture them in 3D for the first time, as well as measure ocean features less than 60 miles (100 kilometers) across.

“SWOT is really going to allow us to understand sort of how water volume changes in our rivers and lakes worldwide,” said Tamlin Pavelsky, NASA’s SWOT freshwater science lead, based at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “It’s going to be a real game changer.”


"‘Game changer’ satellite will measure most of the water on the planet"
Ashley Strickland for CNN; December 16, 2022.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12...aunch-scn/index.html
Raydar DEC 17, 12:17 PM
I heard about this earlier - yesterday or this morning.
It was billed (per the news report) as an aid to understanding climate change.

I wonder, if the results don't match the proscribed narrative, if we'll ever hear about it. I'm not holding my breath.
rinselberg MAR 06, 10:26 AM
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SWOT’s main science instrument, the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn), briefly powered on in mid-January before one of the instrument’s subsystems unexpectedly shut down, NASA announced last week.

KaRIn’s high power amplifier has been off since late January and mission engineers are still not sure why. “Engineers are working systematically to understand the situation and to restore operations, performing diagnostics and working with a test bed that simulates the KaRIn instrument on Earth,” NASA wrote in its statement.


"NASA's Water-Probing Satellite Appears to Be In Trouble"
Passant Rabie for Gizmodo; February 28, 2023.
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-wa...e-trouble-1850169531

A strategic update.

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maryjane MAR 06, 11:28 AM

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understand sort of how water volume changes in our rivers and lakes worldwide



Well, I'm mucho impressed..That there is real, sure 'nuff scientific talk...