WindSat is a polarimetric microwave radiometer developed by the U. S. Navy in a partnered program. The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO( N6)), the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO), and the Space Test Program (STP), a DoD activity under the executive management of Air Force, are sponsors for the WindSat development, integration, launch, on-orbit operations, data analysis and distribution, and technology transfer. The Air Force Titan Spacecraft Procurement Office is providing the Titan II launch vehicle. CNO( N6), ASN( RD& A), and NPOESS IPO designated the Office of Naval Research (ONR) as the Department of the Navy s Program Manager for WindSat. The Director of ONR's Naval Space Science and Technology Program Office is the program manager. The Naval Research Laboratory provides technical project management and is developing, building and testing with other contractors, the WindSat payload, which consist of the radiometric sensor and associated algorithms. WindSat will be launched in August 2002 on the STP Coriolis Mission to demonstrate multiple Naval remote sensing requirements including measuring ocean wind speed and direction. WindSat will illustrate the viability of using polarimetry to measure the wind vector from space and provide operationally usable tactical information directly to Navy units and other military and national users. The payload provides risk reduction data and developmental technology that the NPOESS IPO will use in the development of the Conical Microwave Imager Sounder (CMIS).
WindSat
2001
8 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Laboratory & Test Facility Design & Operation , Radiometers , Conical bodies , Coriolis effect , Data processing , Detectors , Distribution , Images , Integrated systems , Integration , Launching , Management , Marine meteorology , Measurement , Microwave equipment , Missions , Naval operations , Naval research , Navy , Orbits , Payload , Polarimetry , Project management , Radiometry , Reduction , Requirements , Sounding , Space systems , Test methods , Vector analysis , Viability , Wind , Wind velocity
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