RARR Mission Profile
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| - | A vast amount of NASA’s scientific space research was directed at the region between the Sun and the Earth alongside research on the planets. | + | A vast amount of NASA’s scientific space research was directed at the region between the Sun and the Earth alongside research on the planets by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). |
| The wide variety of such research is shown in the list below of some satellites supported by Carnarvon RARR. The selection is arbitrarliy divided into three groups: looking at Earth, looking near Earth, and looking outward. | The wide variety of such research is shown in the list below of some satellites supported by Carnarvon RARR. The selection is arbitrarliy divided into three groups: looking at Earth, looking near Earth, and looking outward. | ||
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- Antennas and tracking
- Telemetry and command
- Darwin sub-station
- Location Project
- Support highlights
- Mission Profile
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A vast amount of NASA’s scientific space research was directed at the region between the Sun and the Earth alongside research on the planets by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN).
The wide variety of such research is shown in the list below of some satellites supported by Carnarvon RARR. The selection is arbitrarliy divided into three groups: looking at Earth, looking near Earth, and looking outward.
Looking at Earth
- GEOS (Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite)
- - locating geographic points and the location and magnitude of gravitational anomalies
- NIMBUS
- - meteorology and measuring the spread of oceanic phytoplankton and particulates
- SMS (Synchronous Meteorological Satellite)
- - the first of the GOES series. See recent images at http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov
- ERTS (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) renamed Landsat
- – monitoring the Earth’s surface, land cover, land use & natural resources
Looking at the near-Earth environment
- AE (Atmosphere Explorer)
- – studying processes within the thermosphere and ionosphere and capable of dipping into the lower atmosphere
- OGO (Orbiting Geophysical Observatory)
- - with very high apogees and very low perigees, studying geophysical and solar phenomena in the magnetosphere and interplanetary space
- IMP (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
- – a number of IMPs in a variety of orbits provided simultaneous measurement to obtain the spatial and temporal relationship of geophysical and interplanetary phenomena
- Pegasus & MTS (Meteoroid Technology Satellite)
- – study of meteoroid impacts in near-earth orbit
Looking out from Earth
- HEOS (Highly Eccentric Orbiting Satellite)
- – examining magnetic fields outside the Earth’s magnetosphere
- OSO (Orbiting Solar Observatory)
- – observing the Sun’s ultraviolet and x-ray radiation unfiltered by the Earth’s atmosphere
- OAO (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory)
- – measuring stars (pulsars & x-ray binaries) with UV telescopes & x-ray instrumentation.
