Ground controllers overnight remotely guided the Canadarm2, with its Dextre robotic hand attached, to deftly remove the CATS experiment from the SpaceX Dragon trunk. They then handed it off to the Japanese robotic arm for installation on the Kibo laboratory’s external platform. CATS, or Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, will collect data on the pollution, dust, smoke, […]
The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), a new instrument that will measure the character and worldwide distribution of the tiny particles that make up haze, dust, air pollutants, and smoke, will do more than gather data once it’s deployed on the International Space Station in December. http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011600/a011637/G2014-068_CATS_Overview_ipod_lg.m4v Courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, December 16th, […]
Among the payloads scheduled for launch as early as Dec. 9 on the next SpaceX Dragon is the Cloud Aerosol Transport System (Cats), a lidar scanner that will bolster the International Space Station’s growing value as a platform for high-resolution observation of the Earth below. Using three laser wavelengths and a “depolarization-based discrimination” capability, Cats […]