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    capability. Gladys West, project manager for Seasat Quill (satellite), first spaceborne SAR "Satellite:SeaSat". Observing Systems Capability Analysis and...
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  • QuickBird QuikSCAT RADARSAT-1 SCIAMACHY SeaWiFS SORCE SPOT TES Terra TRMM ERS Nimbus program Project Vanguard Seasat TOPEX/Poseidon TIROS Automated Quality...
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    create models of the Earth's shape. She became project manager for the Seasat radar altimetry project, the first satellite that could remotely sense oceans...
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    such as Seasat (1978) and TOPEX/Poseidon (1992-2006) used advanced dual-band radar altimeters to measure the height of the Earth's surface (sea, ice, and...
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  • success of the Seasat mission in 1978. (There is information below under "Data Center" about the facility's 2013 release of newly processed Seasat SAR data...
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    of radar sensor for Earth observation purposes was started by NASA/JPL's Seasat satellite, which carried three different radar sensors: a synthetic aperture...
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  • of missions, from NASA's early interplanetary efforts; to the US Navy's SeaSat, the USAF's Corona, Midas and Samos series between January 1959 and February...
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    wavelength = 0.031 m Wikimedia Commons has media related to SIR-C/X-SAR. SeasatSeasat Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in 1978 STS-2 with SIR-A STS-41-G with...
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    Herzegovina. The name šator means "tent". The highest peak Veliki Šator is 1,872 m (6,142 ft) above sea level. Dimensions of the mountain are some 15 km (9 miles)...
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    for a few NASA missions. The last Atlas-Agena was flown in 1978 to launch SEASAT, but on a repurposed Atlas F missile rather than the SLV-3. Launches were...
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  • five-frequency microwave radiometer flown on the Seasat and Nimbus 7 satellites. Both were launched in 1978, with the Seasat mission lasting less than six months...
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    projection. Early exploitation of satellite-based InSAR included use of Seasat data in the 1980s, but the potential of the technique was expanded in the...
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    Other radars already flown successfully or developed by JPL include the Seasat SAR, the Shuttle Imaging Radars (SIR-A, SIR-B, SIR-C), the Shuttle Radar...
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  • JSR-84-117) SEASAT Report (January 1985; JSR-83-203) Multiple scattering effects in radar observations of wakes (August 1984; JSR-84-203B) SEASAT III & IV...
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    glimpse of Earth's ocean as a whole from the pioneering but short-lived Seasat satellite. TOPEX/Poseidon's radar altimeter provided the first continuous...
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  • in Huntsville (UAH) one. From 1978 to 1982, Wentz was a member of NASA's SeaSat Experiment Team involved in the development of physically based retrieval...
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  • measured from the local Earth normal. The SMMR was flown on Seasat and NASA Nimbus 7 in 1978. Seasat operated only for a few months until the satellite suffered...
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  • ESA, and NASDA. The first operational wind scatterometer was known as the Seasat Scatterometer (SASS) and was launched in 1978. It was a fan-beam system...
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  • RatSat: 184  or DemoSat is an aluminum mass simulator on the fourth flight of the Falcon 1 rocket, launched on 28 September 2008. Ratsat remained bolted...
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    Earth observation satellite Indian Remote Sensing List of Indian satellites Seasat Shuttle Radar Topography Mission "Satellite: NISAR". World Meteorological...
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  • thinning ice sheets will be key to better predictions of future sea level rise. The CryoSat-1 spacecraft was lost in a launch failure in 2005, however the...
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    from Seasat",1990, NASA Technical Reports Server "Satellite radar altimetry over ice. Volume 4: Users' guide for Antarctica elevation data from Seasat",1990...
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    A CubeSat is a class of small satellite with a form factor of 10 cm (3.9 in) cubes. CubeSats have a mass of no more than 2 kg (4.4 lb) per unit, and often...
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    Middle East, such as SEA-ME-WE 3 and FLAG. SAT-3 has a capacity of 340 Gbit/s while SAFE has a capacity of 440 Gbit/s. The SAT-3 system together with...
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    radiometer on the Seasat satellite, NASA's first oceanographic satellite launched in 1978. He produced the first microwave-derived sea surface temperature...
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    Atlas-Agena used an Agena D stage atop a refurbished Atlas F missile to launch Seasat in 1978. Twelve more Agenas were launched on Titan vehicles through 1987...
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  • at Boulder after working on high-profile missions like TOPEX/Poseidon, Seasat, Mariner 9 and the Viking program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during...
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  • SatRev S.A. is a Polish company established in 2016, that specialises in building small, lightweight, nanosatellites. The company was listed in the NASA's...
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  • Science, 6 January 1978, vol 199. Born also worked on orbit determination for Seasat where he served as Geophysical Evaluation Manager for the project. He was...
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    solid-fueled upper stages, a notable exception being Missile 23F which launched Seasat, a NASA oceanography satellite, on June 27, 1978, the last Atlas-Agena vehicle...
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