Explore: Satellite Instruments

classified by instrument platform: A satellite may be observed with ground-based instruments (Earth-to-space-methods), carry an instrument or sensor as

Explorer 4 was an American satellite launched on 26 July 1958. It was instrumented by Dr. James van Allen's group. The Department of Defense's Advanced

passive and active instruments ranging in design from imagers and sounders to a scatterometer and a radio-occultation instrument. The satellite service module

observation satellite (EOS) equipped with dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in 2025. It will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual

Monitoring Instrument (OMI) instruments on various NASA, NOAA, and international satellites. Over the more than 30-year period in which these instruments have

ice sheets. The satellite was found useful in assessing important forest characteristics, including tree density. The sole instrument on ICESat was the

inside in situ instruments—satellite instruments are particularly important because of their extensive, regular coverage. The AMSU instruments on three NOAA

A satellite or an artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body. They have a variety of uses, including

payload and all scientific instruments are held. Bus-derived satellites are less customized than specially-produced satellites, but have specific equipment

beginning of the satellite record in late 1978 into 1998 it showed a net global cooling trend, although ground measurements and instruments carried aloft