THE LAUNCH OF NOAA-H WEATHER SATELLITE: A MISSION PROFILE

摘要

The Dallas Remote Imaging Group has as it's primary mission the design, development, and evaluation of hardware/software systems that may be used to receive both low resolution (4 km.) Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) and high resolution (1 km.) High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) imagery from the U.S. NOAA and Soviet Meteor series weather satellites. Another primary interest of the Dallas Remote Imaging Group (DRIG) is to assist local secondary school districts with setting up weather satellite groundstations to be used as an educational tool for the student's science and mathematics curriculum. Jeff Wallach, N5ITU, Chairman of DRIG was recently invited by N.A.S.A. and the Department of Commerce (NOAA/NESDIS) to attend the launch of NOAA-H polar orbiting weather satellite at Vandenberg Air Force Base. This presentation is an account of the launch sequence, orbit stabilization, and reception reports of imagery from NOAA-H. Videotapes of the launch and actual real-time imagery from the satellite received at the N5ITU groundstation will be presented.