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- 2018-10-30 11:42:52.0 [sritz]
update Definition (The world's first operational weather satellite system was placed into
service with the launching of the Environmental Science Services
Administration (which in 1970 became the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, NOAA) satellites, ESSA-1, on February 3,
1966, and ESSA-2, on February 28, 1966. The objective of this program,
also called the TIROS Operational System (TOS), was to acquire global
observational data routinely on a daily basis. This system consisted of
a pair of ESSA satellites in sun-synchronous (polar) orbit. The odd
numbered satellites (ESSA-1, 3, 5, 7, and 9) utilized the Advanced
Vidicon Camera System (AVCS) to obtain global imagery which were
transmitted to the ESSA Command and Data Acquition (CDA) stations at
Wallops, Virginia, and Fairbanks, Alaska. The CDA stations relayed the
data to the National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS), which later
became the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information
Service (NESDIS), located in Suitland, Maryland, for processing and
distribution to forecasting centers of the U.S. and other nations. The
even numbered satellites (ESSA-2, 4, 6, and 8) were equipped with
Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) TV cameras which transmitted
television pictures directly to ground stations worldwide.
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Entry taken from:
Rao, P.K., S.J. Holmes, R.K. Anderson, J.S. Winston, and P.E. Lehr, Weather
Satellites: Systems, Data, and Environmental Applications, American
Meteorological Society, Boston, 1990. ISBN 0-933876-66-1
Group: Platform_Details
Entry_ID: ESSA
Group: Platform_Identification
Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites
Short_Name: ESSA
Long_Name: Environmental Science Services Administration
End_Group
Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names
Short_Name: ESSA
End_Group
Creation_Date: 2007-11-19
Online_Resource: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/essa
Group: Platform_Logistics
Launch_Date: 1966-02-28
Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA
End_Group
End_Group);
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- 2018-10-30 11:45:23.0 [sritz] Insert Concept
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- 2018-10-30 11:44:06.0 [sritz] Insert Concept
add narrower relation (ESSA [65cb3e7c-d4d8-46df-a5fc-aec63e58e8df,345109] - ESSA-4 [50992afe-f79e-47fc-a1a2-126dc2c42c9a,368199]);
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| - The world's first operational weather satellite system was placed into
service with the launching of the Environmental Science Services
Administration (which in 1970 became the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, NOAA) satellites, ESSA-1, on February 3,
1966, and ESSA-2, on February 28, 1966. The objective of this program,
also called the TIROS Operational System (TOS), was to acquire global
observational data routinely on a daily basis. This system consisted of
a pair of ESSA satellites in sun-synchronous (polar) orbit. The odd
numbered satellites (ESSA-1, 3, 5, 7, and 9) utilized the Advanced
Vidicon Camera System (AVCS) to obtain global imagery which were
transmitted to the ESSA Command and Data Acquition (CDA) stations at
Wallops, Virginia, and Fairbanks, Alaska. The CDA stations relayed the
data to the National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS), which later
became the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information
Service (NESDIS), located in Suitland, Maryland, for processing and
distribution to forecasting centers of the U.S. and other nations. The
even numbered satellites (ESSA-2, 4, 6, and 8) were equipped with
Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) TV cameras which transmitted
television pictures directly to ground stations worldwide.
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Entry taken from:
Rao, P.K., S.J. Holmes, R.K. Anderson, J.S. Winston, and P.E. Lehr, Weather
Satellites: Systems, Data, and Environmental Applications, American
Meteorological Society, Boston, 1990. ISBN 0-933876-66-1
Group: Platform_Details
Entry_ID: ESSA
Group: Platform_Identification
Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites
Short_Name: ESSA
Long_Name: Environmental Science Services Administration
End_Group
Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names
Short_Name: ESSA
End_Group
Creation_Date: 2007-11-19
Online_Resource: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/essa
Group: Platform_Logistics
Launch_Date: 1966-02-28
Primary_Sponsor: USA/NASA
End_Group
End_Group (en)
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