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The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment, SAGE, is a series of instruments designed by NASA to observe stratospheric ozone, aerosols, and water vapor from space. In the mid-1980s, scientists realized there was a problem with Earth’s protective coat of ozone...it was thinning. The SAGE family of instruments was pivotal in making accurate measurements of the amount of ozone loss in Earth’s atmosphere and helped leaders around the world institute an international treaty banning products containing harmful chemicals that destroy stratospheric ozone. SAGE is a key part of NASA’s mission to provide crucial, long-term measurements that will help humans better understand and care for Earth’s atmosphere.
The Project conducted a successfully System Acceptance Review / Pre-Ship Review on November 17, 2015. The instrument payload left NASA Langley Research Center at 8:07 PM Thursday, November 19 on a FedEx Custom Critical truck and was delivered to the NASA Kennedy Space Center on November 20, 2015 – just in time for Thanksgiving and five calendar days ahead of our November 25, 2015 delivery commitment.
