First long-duration Lidar satellite mission CALIPSO Ends

First long-duration Lidar satellite mission CALIPSO Ends

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Hampton VA (SPX) Sep 27, 2023

CALIPSO, a lidar satellite that advanced the world's understanding of climate, weather, and air quality, ended its scientific mission on Aug. 1, 2023. Across 17 years of operation, the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation recorded more than 10 billion lidar measurements and informed thousands of scientific reports. CALIPSO was launched jointly by NASA and the F

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