CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- GEOS-1
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Full Name
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Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite 1
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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NASA
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Launch Date
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06 Nov 1965
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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01 Jan 1968
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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Highly elliptical
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Orbit Period
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120.3 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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59.4 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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The instrumentation onboard GEOS-1 and GEOS-2 helped researchers define the structure of the Earth's irregular gravitational field, and refine the locations and magnitudes of the large gravity anomalies.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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Selected IDN OpenSearch Results (search all 1  )
CDDIS_SLR_predictions
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