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The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is successfully operating on orbit, aboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 (GOES-16). When GOES-16 becomes an operational satellite for NOAA later in 2017, it will begin a new era for the United States in the quality and quantity of geostationary weather observations. Not only does ABI provide more than three times the bands, four times the...
“Tian Tuo 1” (TT-1) nano-satellite is the first single-board nano-satellite that was successfully launched in China. The main objective of TT-1 is technology demonstration and scientific measurements. The satellite carries out the significant exploration of single-board architecture feasibility validation, and it is tailored to the low-cost philosophy by adopting numerous commercial-off-the-shelf...
This paper presents on-orbit performance of the CloudSat extended interaction klystron (EIK) and reviews requirements, design and performance of EIK's for future space missions. The CloudSat mission provides cross-sectional view of clouds with information on their thickness, altitude, optical properties, water and ice content. It is concluded that following successful development and on-orbit operation...
The Gravity Probe B (GP-B) Relativity Mission is a fundamental physics experiment to test Einstein’s theory of General Relativity based on observations of spinning gyroscopes onboard a satellite in a near-polar, near-circular orbit at an altitude of about 640km around the Earth. The GP-B mission was designed to test two predictions of Einstein’s theory, the geodetic effect and the frame-dragging effect,...
The CARTOSAT-1 or IRS-P5 is the next generation satellite after IRS-1 series in Indian Remote Sensing Satellite programme. The satellite is the "state of the art technology" with two Panchromatic cameras. These cameras provide stereoscopic images due to their angle of inclination towards earth. One camera called FORE, is mounted at +26 degrees with respect to spacecraft earth viewing axis...
Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) is the process in which the subsystems are integrated and tested in a particular sequence to realize the full spacecraft. It involves detailed interface and performance checks to be carried out on different subsystems. The realization of Electro Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) is one of the major tasks while evolving the full spacecraft. This paper briefly describes...
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