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Arequipa Site News

SGP Project Manager Stephen Merkowitz interviewed by TVPerú
May 31, 2019

SGP Project Manager Stephen Merkowitz was interviewed by TVPerú in Spanish for a story on the NASA Satellite Laser Ranging Station TLRS-3 in Arequipa, Peru that aired on TVPerú Noticias. A version of the story was also aired in Quechua: https://youtu.be/wNyjMAAhS7M

SGP Project Manager and staff vistit the TLRS-3 station
May 31, 2019

SGP Project Manager Stephen Merkowitz, Network Operations Manager Rivers Lamb, and Claudia Carabajal visited the Space Geodesy Project's Satellite Laser Ranging Station TLRS-3 in Arequipa, Peru at the end of April 2019. Also in the picture below is the the TLRS-3 station manger and Instituto Astronúmico y Aeroespacial Pedro Paulet (IAAPP) Director Dr. Pablo Raúl Yanyachi from the Universidad Nacional de San Agustún.

group of 4 people standing in front of the TLRS-3 station in Arequipa, Peru,