The Gerard P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) was a national facility operated by NASA to support research in infrared astronomy. The observation platform...

determine the nature of Venus' clouds using a spectrosopy. The Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), first flown in 1974, consisted of a 36 in (91 cm) aperture...

first light on May 26, 2010. SOFIA was the successor to the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. During 10-hour, overnight flights, it observed celestial magnetic...

1776 Kuiper, three craters (Mercurian, lunar, and Martian), Kuiper Scarp in Antarctica, and the now-decommissioned Kuiper Airborne Observatory were also...

updated much more quickly and inexpensively. The Kuiper Airborne Observatory and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy use airplanes to observe...

sized, very young crater on Mercury Kuiper Airborne Observatory, NASA research facility for infrared astronomy Kuiper belt, an area of the solar system...

also airborne observatories, such as the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy and the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. These observatories fly...

1979– Wyoming Infrared Observatory, 1977- Airborne: Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), 1974-1995 Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)...

retrieve the Long Duration Exposure Facility and deploy the Chandra observatory, and also carried into space the first female commander of an American...

observatories that are used to observe celestial objects. Astronomical observatories are mainly divided into four categories: space-based, airborne,...

J. Wesley Simpson made observations of the clouds using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. In October 2018, the existence of the Kordylewski clouds was...

James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. The discovery was serendipitous; they planned to use the occultation...

(IRTF) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii and a principal investigator on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). On August 23, 2012, in a ceremony held at Dryden Flight...

demonstrator, designated L-300. The airplane was modified to house the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) telescope for use at very high altitudes. This aircraft...

(painter), Japanese painter Kaō Ninga (fl. early 14th century) Kuiper Airborne Observatory Keith-Albee-Orpheum, abbreviated KAO or K-A-O, owners of an American...

The Kuiper Airborne Observatory took an infrared image of the underside of Columbia during the reentry of STS-3 to study temperatures. The orbiter was...

lines. A spectrum of the disk of Jupiter was obtained from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, covering the 100 to 300 cm−1 spectral range. Analysis of the...

discovered in 1995 emanating from the star MWC 349A, using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Evidence for an anti-pumped (dasar) sub-thermal population in...

Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States. It is owned and operated...

Yerkes Observatory (/ˈjɜːrkiːz/ YUR-keez) is an astronomical observatory located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, United States. The observatory was operated...

The Kuiper Airborne Observatory took an infrared image of the orbiter's heat shield to study its operational temperatures. In this image, Columbia is...

NASA's airborne astronomy program, beginning with a 12-inch telescope in a Learjet in 1968 and followed in 1974 by the Kuiper Airborne Observatory with...

(telescope) Kuiper Airborne Observatory KBO – (celestial object) Kuiper belt object KCAO – (organization) Kumamoto Civil Astronomical Observatory KIC – (catalog)...

NASA headquarters.[citation needed] He was co-investigator of Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) discovery of a stellar laser at MWC 349. Active in public...

receiver could operate at 492 GHz, and with it mounted on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, the 3P1—3P0 fine structure line of neutral atomic carbon was...

formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar...

hastily arranged effort to use KH-11 KENNEN spy satellites and the Kuiper Airborne Observatory to acquire imaging of the Shuttle in orbit to assess the damage...

rings of Uranus during a stellar occultation experiment on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. 1977 – Charles Kowal discovers Chiron, the first centaur. 1978 –...

operational for a period of 20 years. It is the successor to the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), which was deployed from 1974 to 1995. On 31 January 2020...

Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink on March 10, 1977, using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and was serendipitous. They planned to use the occultation of...