What does KAO stand for?

Kuiper Airborne Observatory (NASA)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

I went from running a group of 10 people doing research to running an organization with about 750 people, doing work on the U-2 high altitude spyplanes, the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (an infrared flying telescope built on a modified cargo jet), the infrared astronomical satellite, the Galileo probe to Jupiter.

Flight insight: William Ballhaus Jr. has worked for NASA and ...

Many studies have relied on the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, an infrared telescope that flew high in the atmosphere in a converted C-141 airplane.

A cool view of the heavens: infrared observatory spies a hidden ...

Sterling Software held a succession of computer support contracts from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, the predecessor to SOFIA, and from NASA's DC-8 Flying Laboratory.

Sterling Software division wins SOFIA subcontracts

LIVE FROM THE STRATOSPHERE" takes students to the edge of outer space NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory at 40,000 feet.

Maryland Public Television Expands into Cyberspace with Webcasting ...

The authors cite observations of the star's occultation made by other researchers from the University of Tasmania Observatory in Hobart, Australia, and from NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory.

Pluto's atmosphere: more than methane

NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO), the Exploratorium and Apple Computer will be presenting Project LINK (A Live and Interactive Network of Knowledge), an Internet video conference between teachers and scientists on board the KAO and students on the ground.

Power Computing and Project LINK: the world's first aircraft/earth ...

4 in spectra measured through a telescope aboard NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory last Oct.

Signs of old Mars: written in the dust

Elliot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who co-led a team flying over the South Pacific aboard NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, "Pluto has an atmosphere -- no question.

Evidence of an atmosphere on Pluto