The applicability of an existing spacecraft bus and subsystems to the requirements of ocean circulation measurements are assessed. The operational meteorological satellite family TIROS and DMSP are recommended. These programs utilize a common bus to satisfy their Earth observation missions. Note that although the instrument complements were different, the pointing accuracies were different, and, initially, the boosters were different, a high degree of commonality was achieved.
The TOPEX satellite option study
1982-05-28
Report
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English
NTRS | 1982
NTIS | 1982
Topex Satellite Concept. Topex Option Study Report
NTIS | 1982
|TOPEX satellite concept. TOPEX option study report
NTRS | 1982
|NTIS | 1982