The Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) instrument was designed, built, and tested by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). The first in a series of coronagraphs, CCOR is funded by the National Oceanic and ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) instrument has successfully collected its first images of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). CCOR is a small space telescope designed to ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) was launched June 25, on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Compact Coronagraph (CCOR) team holds a model of the CCOR 2 instrument in Washington, D.C. June 7, 2024. After the launch scheduled in June, the CCOR 2 will capture ...

Images from NOAA’s CCOR-1 coronagraph showing the ‘halo’ coronal mass ejection on May 31, 2025. Launched last year, and designed and built by NRL, the CCOR-1 coronagraph is the first operational ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Compact Coronagraph-2 (CCOR-2) launched at 7:30 a.m. EDT on September 24 onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Narrow Field Imager (NFI) captured its first light images on April 14, offering a preliminary glimpse of the Sun’s corona, as NASA’s ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NASA is set to launch the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory mission in September 2025, honoring the late Dr. George R. Carruthers, whose groundbreaking work at the U.S. Naval ...

Images from NOAA’s CCOR-1 coronagraph showing the ‘halo’ coronal mass ejection on May 31, 2025. Launched last year, and designed and built by NRL, the CCOR-1 coronagraph is the first operational ...