CALIPSO is a joint NASA (USA) and CNES (France) environmental satellite, built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center, which was launched atop a Delta II rocket on April 28, 2006. Its name stands for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations. Passive and active remote sensing Instruments on board the CALIPSO satellite monito...
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(from the article `Physical Sciences`) Two environmental satellites, CloudSat and Calipso (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation), were launched together from ...
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(Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Observations) A Franco-American satellite, previously known as PICASSO-CENA, that carries a collection of spectral imaging instruments to measure chemical components of the Earth`s atmosphere, as well as a lidar system to track a...
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The Calipso was an Italian Partenope Class torpedo boat of 679 tons displacement launched in 1938. She was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots and carried a complement of 94. Armaments consisted of three 3.9 inch guns; six 37 mm anti-aircraft guns; two 13 mm anti-aircraft guns; two depth charge throwers and four 18-...
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