PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 29 (UPI) -- NASA says it is recycling parts used to test satellites to create an instrument for the International Space Station to measure ocean surface winds.
Hardware originally built to test parts of the space agency's QuikScat satellite will be used in the building of the ISS-RapidScat instrument to help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring, and understanding of how ocean-atmosphere interactions influence Earth's climate, NASA officials said.