Optimum Management Strategies for the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites, 1985-2000. Volume 1.

Abstract

Based on the experience of the past 15 years, we established the best management principles to apply to the POES for the next 15 years. We did this for both a two-satellite configuration and a one-satellite configuration. The principles include always having a spare available, a 4-month call-up capability, taking advantage of satellites that live longer than their design life, and taking advantage of early indications of imminent failure. These principles must be applied in different ways to the two configurations. Applying these principles to several scenarios for the future leads to the conclusion that we should plan for 12 satellites for the next 15 years for either the one-satellite or the two-satellite system. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA165143

Entities

People

  • W. H. Eskite
  • W. P. Bishop

Organizations

  • National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Case Studies
  • Classification
  • Data Acquisition
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Launch Vehicles
  • Search And Rescue
  • Security
  • Space Stations
  • Space Transportation
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Components
  • Stations
  • Statistics
  • Systems Management
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites