The applicability of an existing spacecraft bus and subsystems to the requirements of ocean circulation measurements are assessed. The operational meteorological satellite family TIROS and DMSP are recommended. These programs utilize a common bus to satisfy their Earth observation missions. Note that although the instrument complements were different, the pointing accuracies were different, and, initially, the boosters were different, a high degree of commonality was achieved.


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    Title :

    Topex Satellite Option Study


    Publication date :

    1982


    Size :

    167 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English