The use of the shuttle sortie mode for earth observation applications was investigated and its feasibility for applied research and instrument development was appraised. The results indicate that the shuttle sortie missions offer unique advantages and that specific aspects of earth applications are particularly suited to the sortie mode.
Earth resources survey applications of the space shuttle sortie mode
1973-05-11
Report
No indication
English
Earth Resources Survey and the Space Shuttle
NTRS | 1975
|Shuttle sent on atmosphere sortie
Online Contents | 1994
Qualifying sortie payloads for shuttle flight
AIAA | 1981
|SIRE--Transition From Free-Flyer To Shuttle Sortie
SPIE | 1981
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