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NASA millennium
NASA has chosen the second Earth-orbiting mission in its New Millennium project to develop and demonstrate new technologies. The $15 million Space-Readiness Coherent Lidar Experiment (Sparcle) will be flown aboard the Space Shuttle in 2001 to give precise measurement of wind speed, direction and vertical profile.
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