The first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS 1) is a NASA mission with an international payload, with the European Space Agency providing operational support for the European investigations. The ATLAS 1 represents the first of a series of shuttle-borne payloads which are intended to study the composition of the middle atmosphere and its possible variations due to solar changes over the course of an 11-year solar cycle. One of the ATLAS missions will coincide with NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS) mission and will provide crucial parameters not measured by the instrument complement on the satellite. A first in this evolutionary program, the ATLAS 1 will carry a payload of instruments originally flown on the Spacelab 1 and Spacelab 3 missions. The ATLAS mission therefore exploits the shuttle capability to return sophisticated instruments to the ground for refurbishment and updating, and the multi-mission reflight of the instruments at intervals required by the scientific goals. In addition to the investigations specific to the ATLAS objectives, the first mission payload includes others that are intended to study or use the near earth environment.
Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS), Mission 1: Introduction
1988
7 pages
Report
No indication
English
Astronautics , Physical Meteorology , Atmospheric composition , Space shuttle missions , Space shuttle payloads , Earth atmosphere , Plasma physics , Solar physics , Spaceborne astronomy , Spaceborne experiments , European space agency , International cooperation , Plasmasphere , Radio sources (Astronomy) , Solar activity effects , Solar cycles , Space plasmas , Spaceborne telescopes , Spacelab payloads
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