A conceptual study for a climate research mission specially prepared for Earth radiation budget measurements was performed. The requisite daily global coverage is fulfilled by a system of three orbiting satellites. One of these is on a non-Sun synchronous drift orbit with an inclination of approximately 57 deg represented by the ESA satellite SEOCS. The other two are polar orbiting satellites, designated POMS. Appropriate near polar orbits are designed for these and concepts are investigated up to component level in order to demonstrate mission feasibility. Subsystem descriptions for thermal control energy supply, attitude stabilization, telecommunications and data processing are given. Cost estimates are provided.
POMS: Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite
1981
163 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Unmanned Spacecraft , Astronautics , Meteorological satellites , Mission planning , Polar orbits , Systems engineering , Ariane launch vehicle , Climatology , Data processing , Energy budgets , European space programs , Spacecraft power supplies , Telemetry , Temperature control , Foreign technology , Translation
POLAR ORBITING METEOROLOGICAL SMALL SATELLITE
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