The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Eight science instruments aboard the spacecraft will take measurements of the planet for about one Earth-year (approximately one-half Martian year) from an elliptical orbit ranging from 90 to 3,870 miles (150 to 6,450 kilometers) above the planet.
Some of these instruments include a group of remote sensing instruments, to be built by LASP, which will determine characteristics of the overall upper atmosphere of Mars.
The University of California at Berkeley, with help from LASP and GSFC, will build six instruments to analyze the solar wind, along with the upper atmosphere and the ionosphere of Mars.
A group of instruments, from GSFC, called the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer will measure the composition of the atmosphere, along with identifying isotopes of neutral and charged gases within the atmosphere.
Jakosky states in the UCB news release, "We are absolutely thrilled about this announcement. We have an outstanding mission that will obtain fundamental science results for Mars. We have a great team and we are ready to go."
David Bass
| ComOps, a leading Australian provider of business software products and services, has won a competitive tender to deploy its Salvus safety, r…
How to Make Business Discovery Work for Your Business
Business Discovery takes its cues from consumer apps. Like Google, it encourages us- ers to hunt for and explore data without worrying about or even noticing the underly- ing technology. Their entire experience is working within an intuitive interface to get real-time, self-service results with only minimal training. ...more
Try an easy-to-use set of web-enabled
tools for business-class productivity services. Office 365 provides
anywhere-access to email, important documents, contacts, and calendars
on almost any device.
