Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
CALIPSO is a joint NASA (USA) and CNES (France) environmental satellite built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center which was launched atop a Delta II rocket on April 28 2006. Its name stands for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations.Passive and active remote sensing Instruments on board the CALIPSO satellite monitor aerosols and clouds 24 hours a day. CALIPSO is part of the A Train flying in formation with several other satellites (Aqua Aura and CloudSat).
