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Date: Apr 16 06:44 2013

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Celebrating NASA's CINDI on Its Fifth Anniversary On April 16, 2008, a suite of NASA instruments was launched into space to study a unique region of Earths upper atmosphere: the electrically charged region called the ionosphere. The instruments, known collectively as CINDI (Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation), fly aboard an Air Force Research Laboratory satellite called C/NOFS (Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System) to study this region that hovers some 60 to 400 miles above Earth. Read more __________________

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Date: Apr 17 16:33 2008

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Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that its Pegasus® space launch vehicle successfully launched the U.S. Air Forces Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite into its intended low-Earth orbit. The mission was the 25th consecutive successful mission for the Pegasus program since 1997 and the 39th overall flight of the companys air-launched system since its introduction in 1990. Read more The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was successfully launched today from the U.S. Armys Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. C/NOFS is a Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) mission that will forecast outages in DOD satellite communication links caused by ionospheric irregularities. Read more __________________

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