In November 1981 the first scientific payload was carried on board the second flight of the Space Shuttle. The principal instrument on that flight was a synthetic aperture radar. This paper is concerned with the operational concepts developed to achieve the objective of terrestrial geologic mapping by radar from earth orbit for this mission. Computer software was developed as an aid to mission design prior to the mission and as a replanning tool used during the mission: The first step in the development of software for future missions where such tools will become indispensable to meet the apparently contradictory objectives of complex observations and low cost.


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    Title :

    Mission planning and operations of a Space Shuttle payload experiment: SIR-A


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    Publication date :

    1984-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English