The Mission Aqua

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The Mission Aqua

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Intro

 

Today, I will introduce this mission and the info. This mission name is called Aqua. As you can see, the name of it is “Aqua”, it studies water bodies of Earth and more. It carries a lot of information about our planet. 

 

Aqua

 

Aqua is an international satellite mission. Launched on May 4, 2002, has several/six instruments: AIRS, AMSR-E, AMSU-A, CERES, HSB, and MODIS. Phew!! That was a lot of instruments, that’s why it carries a lot of information.

 

The whole management of the Aqua mission is located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. This means the management of testing the spacecraft and integration of this spacecraft. Primarily, the management of integration and testing of the spacecraft. A lot of agencies, countries, and universities are also a part of Aqua. Aqua’s science teams are from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. This mission was designed to last until 2008, but it was extended.


Aqua’s Goals


Here I am going to tell you what the goals of Aqua are:

To increase our understanding of the water in the Earth’s climate and the water cycle


 To have reinforced weather forecasting.

 

 To enhance our understanding of the additional elements of the climate system and their interactions

 

To keep track of Earth’s water

 

 

Aqua’s Background

Aqua spacecraft’s name “Aqua” derives from the Latin for “water”. Aqua’s instruments gathered data on the Earth’s water and its water cycle. This includes soil moisture, precipitation, sea ice, land ice, ocean surface water, evaporation from the oceans, and snow cover.

 

With its wide-ranging instruments, the Aqua missions help scientists in better state of learning and in key topics, such as whether the water cycle is speeding up, what is the full part of the clouds in the climate system, and whether the Earth system is in radiative balance.

 

 

Delta ll Rocket

Delta ll was an expendable launch system/spacecraft, designed and built by McDonnell Douglas. This rocket is in the Delta ll family, and this group has been launched 155 times. Just only two unsuccessful times; Koreasat1 and GPS IIR-1. Koreasat1 was a half-failure because of just one booster not being separated, from the first stage. And resulted in the satellite being in a lower orbit than the orbit it was meant to be. But the GPS IIR-1 was totally a failure. Just 13 seconds from launch it exploded. The damaged solid rocket booster casing exploded and triggered the vehicle’s termination system. No one was injured, and the launch pad wasn’t seriously broken, but many cars and buildings got damaged.

 

Thank you,

-Akshaya Dhathri Bandari

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