RARR Mission Profile
- Antennas and tracking
- Telemetry and command
- Darwin sub-station
- Location Project
- Support highlights
- Mission Profile
Back to Station Equipment
Examples of the variety of RARR support were:
Looking at Earth
- GEOS (Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite)
- - locating geographic points and the location and magnitude of gravitational anomalies
- NIMBUS
- - meteorology and oceanic phytoplankton and particulates
- SMS (Synchronous Meteorological Satellite)
- the first of the GOES series
- 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) & EGO
- - 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.
