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... an electrical fault in the rotation assembly of the solar panels. Seasat's bus was a customised Agena stage. Seasat's mission lasted just over 100 days but it provided proof of ... . Media:1977_Seasat_Flyer.pdf 1977 Seasat Promotional Document (NASA) Media:1977_Seasat_Rundown.pdf 1977 Seasat Global Ocean Monitoring System (NASA Technical Report) Media:1978_Seasat_Failure.pdf 1978 Report Of The Seasat Failure Review ...

... -level agreements among NASA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Defense Dept. concerning SEASAT participation prior to project approval within NASA." NASA responded that it was "of the opinion that there are clear understandings ... regarding roles and responsibilities in the SEASAT-A project and that formalized agreements are being prepared," GAO also reported increased costs during ...

... 52da, respectively. The instruments also completed a series of sea-surface fact-finding experiments. The SEASAT program had three objectives: to demonstrate techniques to monitor earth's oceanographic phenomena and features ... board see Oct. 30 was working to determine the causes of the premature end of SEASAT operation. SEASAT had been launched June 26 from Vandenberg AFB ; contact was lost Oct. 9 on ...

... shipping to avoid storms, adverse currents, and ice fields; and to provide coastal disaster warnings. SEASAT-A would also accumulate scientific data on the curvature of the oceans; ocean circulation; transport of mass, heat, and nutrients by surface currents; and the interaction between air and sea. SEASAT would be managed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory with Langley Research Center , Goddard Space Flight Center ...

... announced. Under the agreement, Canada would build and operate a ground station to collect from SEASAT 's five sensors the data needed to support their own surveillance satellite project (SURSAT) and ... NASA at no cost. NASA would be responsible for SEASAT data transmission to the station and for necessary technical information. Data from SEASAT would support a number of Canadian experiments to assess ...

... radar satellite to study the ocean and sea ice. Image:100YearsCanadianSlide41.JPG right thumb SEASAT When Seasat launched in 1978 it was the first satellite to use synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and ... for the first time. Despite the unanticipated early shutdown of Seasat and the tantalizing initial results NASA decided not to launch Seasat-2. ''The Canadian Working Group on Satellites and Ground Station ...

... before an orbital pass over the Santiago, Chile, tracking station see Oct. 11 . Gene Giberson, SEASAT project manager at JPL , said that engineers there and at GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER GSFC ... . Alan Lovelace announced the convening of a review board to determine the cause of the SEASAT failure see Oct. 11 , Lovelace named Dr. Bruce Lundin, recently retired director of Lewis Research ...

... on June 26, 1978, on an Atlas-Agena rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base , California, SEASAT carried a payload of five scientific instruments unlike any package carried on previous remote-sensing satellites. Among the experimental instruments SEASAT pioneered were a synthetic aperture radar, which provided highly detailed images of ocean and land ...

... ; NASA Release 76-213) Seven European nations planning to use data from the U.S. SEASAT A, due for launch in May 1978, were forming an organization to coordinate their activities, Aviation Week magazine reported. Denmark, Finland, France, West Germany, Britain, Norway, and Spain would use SEASAT measurement of wave heights to forecast floods in the North Sea area and to design ... five laser-ranging stations and up to 10 Doppler tracking stations ready by the time SEASAT would be operational. (Av Wk, Jan 3/77, 20) 1977 January 1977 January Jan 1 ...

... May 1978. The survey had used high-flying NASA aircraft to test four sensors from SEASAT-A : a synthetic aperture imaging radar, a wind-field scatterometer, a scanning multifrequency microwave radiometer ... radar altimeter. The mission was a rehearsal in research cooperation that scientists would need when SEASAT became operational. (NASA Release 77-62) The future of Japan's space program was not ...

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