CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
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Full Name
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Fast On-Orbit Recording of Transient Events
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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LANL
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Launch Date
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29 Aug 1997
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Mission Links
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EOL Date
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29 Aug 2000
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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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Orbit Period
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100 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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70 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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815 km
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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 prime objective is the measurement of electromagnetic pulses (EMP), primarily due to lightning, within a noise environment dominated by continuous wave (CW) carriers, such as TV and FM stations.
FORTE also conducts ionospheric physics experiments.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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No IDN OpenSearch datasets found.
No FedEO OpenSearch datasets found.
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