The Midcourse Space Experiment spacecraft, launched April 24, 1996, is expected to have a 5 year useful lifetime with a 12 month lifetime for the cryogenically cooled IR sensor. A pre-launch, ground based calibration of the instruments provided a basis for the pre-launch certification of the Level 2 data base these instruments produce. With the spacecraft in-orbit the certification of the instrument's Level 2 data base is being extended to the in-orbit environment.


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    Title :

    Midcourse Space Experiment Data Certification and Technology Transfer


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1998-02-04


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English