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Its measurements of ocean salinity and temperatures inform Navy operations, according to the Council on Strategic Risks, a nonpartisan security policy institute in Washington.

On the ground measurements will continue to take place after the satellite is launched to verify the data it is sending back.

After the passage of a $2-million bond measure by Los Angeles voters in 1925, hundreds of surveyors fanned out across the largely roadless Mojave and Sonoran deserts to take measurements and study potential routes.

The 21-year-old sat with the wax museum's artists last year so they could collect their measurements, select the figure's outfit and review the initial sculpt.

Taking standard crutch measurements from the internet, Qaradaya commissioned a local carpenter to create several prototypes for wooden crutches.