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Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Future Payload Technology Requirements Study
Author: OAST Space Technology Workshop
Author: Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small BusinessPublisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
The Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309069823
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Remote observations of Earth from space serve an extraordinarily broad range of purposes, resulting in extraordinary demands on those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and elsewhere who must decide how to execute them. In research, Earth observations promise large volumes of data to a variety of disciplines with differing needs for measurement type, simultaneity, continuity, and long-term instrument stability. Operational needs, such as weather forecasting, add a distinct set of requirements for continual and highly reliable monitoring of global conditions. The Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs confronts these diverse requirements and assesses how they might be met by small satellites. In the past, the preferred architecture for most NASA and NOAA missions was a single large spacecraft platform containing a sophisticated suite of instruments. But the recognition in other areas of space research that cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and robustness may be enhanced by using small spacecraft has raised questions about this philosophy of Earth observation. For example, NASA has already abandoned its original plan for a follow-on series of major platforms in its Earth Observing System. This study finds that small spacecraft can play an important role in Earth observation programs, providing to this field some of the expected benefits that are normally associated with such programs, such as rapid development and lower individual mission cost. It also identifies some of the programmatic and technical challenges associated with a mission composed of small spacecraft, as well as reasons why more traditional, larger platforms might still be preferred. The reasonable conclusion is that a systems-level examination is required to determine the optimum architecture for a given scientific and/or operational objective. The implied new challenge is for NASA and NOAA to find intra- and interagency planning mechanisms that can achieve the most appropriate and cost-effective balance among their various requirements.
Technology for Large Space Systems
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Category : Large space structures (Astronautics)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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1990 NASA authorization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and MaterialsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
1975 NASA Authorization, Hearings Before....
Author: United States. Congress. House Science and Astronautics CommitteePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
House Miscellaneous reports on Public bills I
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
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