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- Seasat abstract "Seasat was the first Earth-orbiting satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans and had on board the first spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The mission was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of global satellite monitoring of oceanographic phenomena and to help determine the requirements for an operational ocean remote sensing satellite system. Specific objectives were to collect data on sea-surface winds, sea-surface temperatures, wave heights, internal waves, atmospheric water, sea ice features and ocean topography. Seasat was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was launched on 27 June 1978 into a nearly circular 800 km orbit with an inclination of 108°. Seasat operated for 106 days until 10 October 1978, when a massive short circuit in the satellite's electrical system ended the mission.Seasat carried five major instruments designed to return the maximum information from ocean surfaces: Radar altimeter to measure spacecraft height above the ocean surface Microwave scatterometer to measure wind speed and direction Scanning multichannel microwave radiometer to measure sea surface temperature Visible and infrared radiometer to identify cloud, land and water features Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) L-band, HH polarization, fixed look angle to monitor the global surface wave field and polar sea ice conditions {the antenna is the light parallelogram in the picture}. The SAR support structure was designed and manufactured by Northrop Grumman Astro Aerospace in Carpinteria, CA. The structure deployed on orbit.Many later remote sensing missions owe their legacy to Seasat. These include imaging radars flown on NASA's Space Shuttle, altimeters on Earth-orbiting satellites such as TOPEX/Poseidon, and scatterometers on NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), QuikSCAT, and Jason 1.".
- Seasat cosparId "1978-064A".
- Seasat thumbnail Seasat.jpg?width=300.
- Seasat wikiPageExternalLink seasat.
- Seasat wikiPageExternalLink seasat.pdf.
- Seasat wikiPageExternalLink seasat2.pdf.
- Seasat wikiPageExternalLink seasat3-4.pdf.
- Seasat wikiPageExternalLink missiondetails.cfm?mission=Seasat.
- Seasat wikiPageExternalLink astroaerospace.
- Seasat wikiPageExternalLink about.
- Seasat wikiPageExternalLink data_download.
- Seasat wikiPageID "1987752".
- Seasat wikiPageLength "7371".
- Seasat wikiPageOutDegree "54".
- Seasat wikiPageRevisionID "698405735".
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Alaska_Satellite_Facility.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Altimeter.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Antenna_(radio).
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink F.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Atmospheric_water.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Ball_Aerospace_&_Technologies.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink California_Institute_of_Technology.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Category:1978_in_spaceflight.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Category:Earth_observation_satellites.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Category:Space_radars.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Category:Spacecraft_launched_in_1978.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Category:Synthetic_aperture_radar.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Cloud.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Earth.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Geocentric_orbit.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Infrared.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Jason-1.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Kilometre.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Lockheed_Corporation.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Microwave.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink NASA.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Ocean.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Oceanography.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Parallelogram.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Polar_regions_of_Earth.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink QuikSCAT.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink RM-81_Agena.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Radiometer.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Remote_sensing.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Satellite.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Scatterometer.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Sea_ice.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Sea_surface_temperature.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Short_circuit.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Space_Shuttle.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Sun-synchronous_orbit.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Synthetic_aperture_radar.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Poseidon.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Temperature.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Topography.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Vandenberg_AFB_Space_Launch_Complex_3.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Vandenberg_Air_Force_Base.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Water.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Wave.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Wind.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLink Wind_speed.
- Seasat wikiPageWikiLinkText "Seasat".
- Seasat apsis "gee".
- Seasat cosparId "1978".
- Seasat imageCaption "Seasat".
- Seasat lastContact "1978-10-10".
- Seasat launchDate "--06-28".
- Seasat launchRocket F.
- Seasat launchRocket RM-81_Agena.
- Seasat launchSite Vandenberg_AFB_Space_Launch_Complex_3.
- Seasat launchSite Vandenberg_Air_Force_Base.
- Seasat manufacturer Ball_Aerospace_&_Technologies.
- Seasat manufacturer Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory.
- Seasat manufacturer Lockheed_Corporation.
- Seasat missionDuration "9072000.0".
- Seasat missionType "Oceanography".
- Seasat name "Seasat".
- Seasat operator California_Institute_of_Technology.
- Seasat operator Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory.
- Seasat operator NASA.
- Seasat orbitEccentricity "0.00209".
- Seasat orbitInclination "108".
- Seasat orbitPeriod "6042.0".
- Seasat orbitReference Geocentric_orbit.
- Seasat orbitRegime Sun-synchronous_orbit.
- Seasat satcat "10967".
- Seasat spacecraftBus RM-81_Agena.
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- Seasat subject Category:1978_in_spaceflight.
- Seasat subject Category:Earth_observation_satellites.
- Seasat subject Category:Space_radars.