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CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - SSBUV -
Full Name Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectromete Status Mission complete
Mission Agencies NASA Launch Date 19 Oct 1989
Mission Links mission site EOL Date 20 Jan 1996
EO Portal Info NORAD Catalog #
International Designator
Orbit Type Orbit Period
Orbit Sense Orbit Inclination
Orbit Altitude Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST Repeat Cycle
Objectives and Applications to measure vertical profiles of ozone in the stratosphere and in the lower mesosphere in the spectral range from 200 to 405 nm. The objective is to fly the SSBUV payload on numerous Shuttle missions to provide complementary calibration data for long-term satellite ozone data sets.
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