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NOAA and partners to launch approximately 100 new Argo floats across the Atlantic ocean to collect data that supports ocean, weather and climate research and prediction.

NOAA And Partners Have Joined Together To Launch Approximately 100 New Argo Floats Across The Atlantic Ocean To Collect Data That Supports Ocean…

Partners team with low-carbon sailing vessel for major Atlantic Ocean deployment

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and partners have joined together to launch approximately 100 new Argo floats across the Atlantic Ocean to collect data that supports ocean, weather and climate research and prediction.

NOAA And Partners Have Joined Together To Launch Approximately 100 New Argo Floats Across The Atlantic Ocean To Collect Data That Supports Ocean…

Email In a key milestone for NASA’s plan to return humans to the moon, the space agency today announced that SpaceX will build the vehicle that will land astronauts on the lunar surface. The current plan, known as Artemis, calls for astronauts to launch on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, fly to lunar orbit on the space agency’s Orion space capsule, and then transfer to SpaceX’s Starship rocket to make the final descent to the surface. The contract, worth $2.9 billion, will go t...

" " A NEMO float, which is part of the Argo program, sits atop the waters of the Arctic Ocean after being deployed from the German icebreaker Polarstern. Argo Program The ocean is massive. It covers more than 70 percent of Earths surface. The Pacific Ocean alone blankets 60 million square miles (155 million square kilometers) of the planet. This water regulates our climate and weather patterns by funneling heat from the equator to the poles, produces more than half of the worlds oxygen, a...

Government-only model? >> well, the government is always going to have a big part in this, and let me just make one correction. there isnt nearly as much private money going into these efforts as most people think. what has funded spacex, for instance, primarily has been nasa. not only the commercial crew program but the commercial cargo program. theyre customer es. spacex customers are nasa, other governments and military. and so you cant have those private ventures unless you have a government...

It will take three to five years some say to get astronauts to be on the commercial space flights. why would it take so long? >> nasa has contracted with several other companies alongwith spacex to develop astronaut transport to the station and nasa estimated it will take to 2017, five years from now, for that to really happen. these companies are developing private spacecraft. they dont have the depth of engineering experience, 50 years of experience that nasa has even though they have been sha...