Plan for Space Station Polar-Orbiting Platform.

Abstract

This ENVIROSAT-2000 Report concerns utilization of the polar platform component of NASA's Space Station program. Issues covered in the report include instrument payloads, altitudes, orbits, serviceability, communications, and data processing. A scenario is set forth for operational utilization of the platform, including issues surrounding integration of operational and research missions. The discussion is broken down by discipline: oceanography, meteorology, land sciences, atmospheric sciences, and solar-terrestrial investigations. A cost analysis shows that performing NOAA operations from the polar platforms would prove extremely beneficial by replacing the expendable two Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) system that NOAA now maintains. Keywords: Space remote sensing, Environmental satellites, Satellite remote sensing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA164405

Entities

People

  • D. B. Miller
  • J. H. Mcelroy
  • J. W. Sherman Iii
  • S. R. Schneider

Organizations

  • National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Astronautics
  • Climate Change
  • Detectors
  • Earth Observation Satellites
  • Geography
  • High Latitudes
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Latitude
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Meteorology
  • Ocean Currents
  • Space Systems
  • Space Transportation
  • Spacecraft
  • Topography

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites