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This publication is set spaceborne missions and tools. furthermore, surveys of airborne missions and of campaigns are available at the accompanying CD-ROM in pdf-format. in comparison with the third variation the spaceborne half grew from approximately three hundred to a thousand pages. the entire textual content - together with the electronic-only chapters - includes greater than 1900 pages. New chapters deal with the background of Earth commentary and college missions. The variety of advertisement Earth imaging missions has grown considerably. A bankruptcy includes reference facts and definitions. broad appendices offer a entire word list, acronyms and abbreviations and an index of sensors. An attempt has been made to give the knowledge in context, to show relationships and interconnections. The publication may possibly function a reference and advisor to all inquisitive about some of the nationwide and overseas area courses: researchers and executives, carrier companies and knowledge clients, lecturers and scholars.

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The objective of the releases is ion tracing and the study of the interaction of two vastly different plasmas in space. 8 Lithium release canisters (52 kg) 8 Barium release canisters (108 kg) 29) 'AMPTE', interavia Space Directory 1992·93, p. 2 33 UKS Instrumentation (Sensors) 3D-Ion Analyzer. Objective: measurement of the 3-D distribution function of positive ions. Measurement technique: electrostatic analyzer. Coverage: 10 eV/q - 20 keV/q. 3D-Electron Analyzer. Objective: measurement of electrons (count rates).

DPR provides measurements of3-dimensional precipitation. It also permits the monitoring of rainfall and the estimation of of the sea surface wind velocity. 12) Launch: Feb 18, 1979 by Scout vehicle from Wallops. The mission ended after 33 months of operation on November 11,1981 due to a failure in the SIC power system. 13) Application: stratospheric chemistry related to aerosol, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide. Provision of almost global profiles by solar occultation techniques. 8 min. M. P. McCormick, P.

H. Holden, D. C. A. Roussel-Dupre, R. Dingler, R. Warner, G. Huffman, R. Miller, B. Dill, R. Fleeter, "The AIEXIS Small Satellite Project: Initial Flight Results", AIM Space Programs and Thchnologies Conference, Sept. ; and Proc. SPIE Vol. 114-126 W. C. Priedhorsky, J. J. Bloch, S. P. Wallin, W. T. Armstrong, O. H. W. Siegmund, J. Griffee, R. Fleeter, "The ALEXIS Small Satellite Project: Better, Faster, Cheaper Faces Reality", IEEE nansactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 40, Nr. 4, 4 August, 1993, pp.

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