Feb 18 1979
From The Space Library
Wallops Flight Center (WFC) launched SAGE (stratospheric aerosol and gas experiment) at 11:18 a.m. EST on a Scout into an orbit with 655.1-kilometer apogee, 554.6 kilometer perigee, 96.9-minute period, and 54.9° inclination. The 32-pound spacecraft would obtain data on aerosols and ozone in the stratosphere, to be used in studying climate and environmental changes that might adversely affect life at the surface. Data from SAGE would be checked with surface measurements from teams in the United States, Japan, and Europe. SAGE would obtain readings from tropical to high latitudes; similar data for the polar regions would come from an aerosol measurement experiment on Nimbus 7. (WFC Release 79-4)
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