Space Station Polar Platform: Integrating Research and Operational Missions

摘要

This report describes how an operational payload proposed by NOAA for the Space Station Polar Platform may be merged together with the research sensors scheduled to be carried on the Platform as part of NASA's 'Earth Observing System' (EOS). This is the third in a series of NOAA/NESDIS Technical Reports on the Space Station project. Issues addressed include studies of solar-terrestrial interactions, as well as monitoring of the Earth's atmosphere, oceans and land masses using both operational and R&D sensors.