Meetings/News
SORCE Mission Operations Presented with “Science Phoenix Award”
The last few months have been challenging for the SORCE Mission Operations team as they work to bring SORCE science measurements back to life. Their hard work has paid off and in recognition for everything they have done, from creative problem solving to extraordinary long hours, Tom Woods (SORCE Principal Investigator) and Bill Possel (LASP […]
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Daily SORCE Measurements Return
Great news! SORCE successfully transitioned to a new “hybrid” operating mode on Monday, Feb. 24th. The hybrid mode allows SORCE to take solar measurements again after an approximate 6-month break. After months of development and planning, the new version of flight software making this all possible was uploaded to the spacecraft on Friday, Feb. 21st […]
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2012 SORCE Science Team Meeting Summary
Annapolis, Maryland, Sept. 18-19, 2012 By: Jerald Harder, LASP, University of Colorado, Jerry.Harder@lasp.colorado.edu Martin Snow, LASP, University of Colorado, Marty.Snow@lasp.colorado.edu Tom Woods, LASP, University of Colorado, Tom.Woods@lasp.colorado.edu The SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) team continued its series of science meetings in Annapolis, MD, September, 18-19, 2012. The title of this year’s meeting was Solar […]
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SORCE Spacecraft Status
With the loss of another battery cell, SORCE is now operating in a new configuration. While we are working ultimately towards recovering back to normal operations with daily solar irradiance measurements, our current focus is preparing the spacecraft to support a campaign mode to assure overlapping measurements between SORCE and TCTE in December 2013. There […]
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The SORCE Mission Celebrates Ten Years!
Download Article as a .PDF This image shows the SORCE spacecraft with the solar arrays deployed during integration and testing at Orbital Sciences Corporation. Image credit: Orbital Sciences Corporation. Tom Woods, LASP, University of Colorado, Tom.Woods@lasp.colorado.edu Gary Rottman, LASP, University of Colorado, Gary.Rottman@lasp.colorado.edu Robert Cahalan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Robert.F.Cahalan@nasa.gov Jerald Harder, LASP, University […]
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