{"id":6005,"date":"2011-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwinvap.com.ar\/2011\/03\/28\/sac-d-aquarius-ready-to-start-launch-campaign\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T03:00:00","slug":"sac-d-aquarius-ready-to-start-launch-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.invap.com.ar\/en\/sac-d-aquarius-ready-to-start-launch-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"SAC-D\/Aquarius: ready to start launch campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Having succesfully passed the stage of environmental testing carried out at the&nbsp;Laboratorio de Integra\u00e7\u00e3o e Testes (LIT) of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)&nbsp;at S\u00e3o Jose dos Campos, Brazil,&nbsp; SAC-D\/Aquarius satellite will be transported to Vandeberg Air Force Base in California, USA, where it will be integrated to NASA&#8217;s Delta II Launcher to be placed in orbit on June, 9th.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"es\/area-aeroespacial-y-gobierno\/proyectos\/satelite-sac-daquarius.html\">SAC-D\/Aquarius<\/a> is a satellite designed and constructed by INVAP for the National Space Agency (CONAE), in a joint mission with US Space Agency NASA which provides the main payload, the Aquarius instrument, able of measuring the ocean surface salinity at a gloabl scale.&nbsp; Monthly measurements will be obtained, of vital importance to study and understand climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The mission includes&nbsp;contributions from the Italian Space Agency (ASI, the French Center of Space Studies (CNES) , the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) and the Brazilian Institute of Space Research (INPE).&nbsp; Besides, several&nbsp;&nbsp;institutions from the National System of Science and Technology, such as the Argentine Atomic Energy Agency (CNEA), the Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, the Argentine Institute of Radioastronomy (IAR) and CONICET&#8217;s Center of Optical Research (CIOP), the Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica Nacional (UTN), the IUA (Aeronautical University Institute) as well as technology based local companies such as&nbsp;DTA S.A, CONSULFEM&nbsp;and STI have participated in the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>+info:<\/strong><br \/>Laura Sarrate &#8211; CONAE Press Contact<\/p>\n<p>Centro Espacial Te\u00f3filo Tabanera &#8211; Falda del Carmen &#8211; C\u00f3rdoba<br \/>Tel.: 03547 431 075 &#8211; prensa@conae.gov.ar<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conae.gov.ar\/principal.html\">www.conae.gov.ar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having succesfully passed the stage of environmental testing carried out at the&nbsp;Laboratorio de Integra\u00e7\u00e3o e Testes (LIT) of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)&nbsp;at S\u00e3o Jose dos Campos, Brazil,&nbsp; SAC-D\/Aquarius satellite will be transported to Vandeberg Air Force Base in California, USA, where it will be integrated to NASA&#8217;s Delta II Launcher to be&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.invap.com.ar\/en\/sac-d-aquarius-ready-to-start-launch-campaign\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SAC-D\/Aquarius: ready to start launch campaign | INVAP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.invap.com.ar\/en\/sac-d-aquarius-ready-to-start-launch-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SAC-D\/Aquarius: ready to start launch campaign | INVAP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Having succesfully passed the stage of environmental testing carried out at the&nbsp;Laboratorio de Integra\u00e7\u00e3o e Testes (LIT) of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)&nbsp;at S\u00e3o Jose dos Campos, Brazil,&nbsp; SAC-D\/Aquarius satellite will be transported to Vandeberg Air Force Base in California, USA, where it will be integrated to NASA&#8217;s Delta II Launcher to be... 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