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    Force's Infrared Space Systems Directorate is located at Los Angeles Air Force Base. Current and former designations: Infrared Space Systems Directorate (2011–present)...
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    Weather Systems Directorate and Infrared Space Systems Directorate were combined into the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate. In 2019, these directorates were...
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    NASA (redirect from Space Systems Center)
    mission directorates within NASA, the other four being the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, the Space Operations Mission Directorate, the...
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    Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than...
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    Defense Support Program (category Infrared technology)
    this source, which is in the public domain. "Factsheets : Infrared Space Systems Directorate". Losangeles.af.mil. 21 November 2012. Archived from the original...
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    Michael Guetlein (category United States Space Force generals)
    and the Space Force Element to the National Reconnaissance Office. He has also led Space and Missile Systems Center's Space-Based Infrared System Production...
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    C5ISR Center's six directorates and Product Director (PD) aim to integrate C5ISR technologies in order to provide systems-of-systems products for soldiers...
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    The atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS) is one of six instruments flying on board NASA's Aqua satellite, launched on May 4, 2002. The instrument is designed...
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    Dennis Bythewood (category United States Space Force generals)
    2013, Materiel Leader, Space Based Infrared System Production, Infrared Space Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB...
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  • heartbeat. Another commercial product uses infrared light to detect the level of carbon dioxide in an enclosed space, from which it infers the presence of...
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    satellites and space probes Batteries in space Control engineering – Engineering discipline that deals with control systems Corrosion in space – Corrosion...
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    scientific investigation, development, manufacturing and operation of space systems, and development of related technologies. Goddard scientists can develop...
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    guided missiles (ATGM), missile defense systems, directed-energy weapons (DEW), selected space programs and systems, and relevant command, control, communications...
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  • Science Data Systems". Data Science Journal. 16: 51. doi:10.5334/dsj-2017-051. ISSN 1683-1470. S2CID 65241888. "ATS | Science Mission Directorate". science...
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    to observe with radar.” Analysts also observed that the Space Based Infrared Satellite Systems (SBIRS), the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications...
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    Brian Denaro (category United States Space Force generals)
    sensing and director of SSC's Space Sensing Directorate. During his tenure, he led the completion of the Space-Based Infrared System. In 2024, he was nominated...
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    by Space Base Delta 2, with major units including the U.S. Space Force's Space Delta 4 (flies the Defense Support Program and Space-Based Infrared System...
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  • Center), IRSA (Infrared Science Archives), LAMBDA (Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis), MAST (Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes)....
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  • electro-optical systems including infrared, laser imaging, and targeting systems; defense aviation systems including weapons systems and UAVs; and commercial...
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    Suzanne Dodd (category Spitzer Space Telescope)
    Spitzer science operations system: How well are we really doing?". In Mather, John C. (ed.). Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes. Vol. 5487...
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    and infrared. Also, out of about 340 W/m2 of reflected shortwave (105 W/m2) plus outgoing longwave radiation (235 W/m2), 80-100 W/m2 exits to space through...
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    of satellite images is diverse, including visible light, near-infrared light, infrared light and radar, and many others. This wide range of light frequencies...
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    JAXA (redirect from Japanese Space Agency)
    ISAS also gave ground support for the ESA Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) infrared mission. JAXA's first infrared astronomy satellite was the Akari spacecraft...
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  • Phi-Sat-1 (category European Space Agency satellites)
    from space and therefore improve efficiency. The Phi-Sat-1 mission has two main objectives: To acquire images in the visible, the near-infrared and thermal...
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    development of the Space-Based Infrared System to replace the Defense Support Program, and the first launches of Milstar. In 1992, Air Force Systems Command was...
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    observing exoplanets and their host stars at the same time in both visible and infrared light over long periods of time. The satellite will have sensitivity to...
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    navigation systems. It has sent three missions to the Moon and one mission to Mars. Formerly known as the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR)...
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    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She retired in 2024 after 27 years at NASA. From 1998 to 2009 she was a staff scientist at the Infrared Processing and...
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    version of the Taser or stun gun. Pulsed Energy Projectile or PEP systems emit an infrared laser pulse which creates rapidly expanding plasma at the target...
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    Steven P. Whitney (category United States Space Force generals)
    Leader, Global Positioning System User Equipment Division, Global Positioning Systems Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles AFB, Calif...
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