What does QUIKSCAT stand for?

Quick Scatterometer (NASA)

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Other sensors such as the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System on Aqua and the Quick Scatterometer satellite can penetrate cloud cover and analyze the physical properties of ice.

NASA aircraft studies receding Arctic sea ice to improve ...

QuikScat - short for Quick Scatterometer - was designed as a quick replacement for a NASA instrument on a Japanese satellite that failed in 1997 less than a year in orbit.

SATELLITE SENT ON MISSION TO VASTLY IMPROVE FORECASTING

The BCP 2000 buses are part of Ball Aerospace's product assembly line that includes three additional units: the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) built for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is gaining praise for tracking weather disturbances that aid hurricane forecasters; Goddard's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat); and QuickBird 2.

Ball Aerospace Delivering QuickBird 1 Remote-Sensing Satellite to ...