CINDI (Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigations)A NASA Mission of Opportunity, developed by researchers at the University of Texas, Dallas, to understand better the dynamics of the ionosphere. The two CINDI instruments will fly aboard a satellite in 2003 which begins a United States Air Force program called the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecast System. CINDI will study the coupling processes between ionized and neutral gases near 400-km altitude. Related category SATELLITES AND SPACE PROBESAlso on this site: Encyclopedia of Alternative Energy & Sustainable Living Encyclopedia of History |