Next new NASA program is concerned with "man-tended" astronomical observatory and Earth Resource Test Satellite (ERTS) which will be controlled by astronauts and ground-based astronomers; ERTS will be operational in early 1970s; tabulation of instrumentation potentially required of earth resources surveys, objectives of Application Technology Satellite Program and tests to be carried out.
New observatory, earth resource satellite planned
Aerospace Technology
Aerospace Technology ; 21 , n 11
1967
7 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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