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.
On Friday, December 9, the SAGE III and KSC teams completed final preparations at the NASA Kennedy Space Center Space Station Processing Facility for shipment of the SAGE III Instrument Payload and Nadir Viewing Platform to SpaceX on Monday, December 12. The SAGE III payloads and the Space Test Program- Houston (STP-H) 5 payload were […]
Members of the SAGE III/ISS team traveled to the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center this week to begin Instrument Payload (IP) and Nadir Viewing Platform (NVP) close-out activities in preparation for transport of the payloads to the SpaceX Payload Processing Facility (PPF). On Monday, November 28, the ground support equipment (GSE) was set up and the […]
