Illustration of SES-14 Satellite Carrying NASA's GOLD Instrument (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Illustration of SES-14 Satellite Carrying NASA's GOLD Instrument

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GOLD flies aboard SES-14, a commercial communications satellite (illustrated here), and is the first NASA science mission to fly as a hosted payload on a commercial satellite.

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NASA Goddard's Conceptual Image Lab/Chris Meaney

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