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- Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) is an advanced land-imaging mission that will demonstrate new instruments and spacecraft systems. EO-1 will validate technologies contributing to the significant reduction in cost of follow-on Landsat missions. Launched on a Delta 7320 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, November 21, 2000. EO-1 has a 1-year primary mission but was designed to operate for an additional year. The NMP EO-1 mission includes three advanced land imaging instruments and five revolutionary cross cutting spacecraft technologies. The hyperspectral instrument is the first of its kind to provide images of land-surface in more than 220 spectral colors. The Hyperion will demonstrate the ability to perform detailed spectral mapping with high radiometric accuracy. In the future, an operational version of the Hyperion will allow complex land ecosystems to be imaged and accurately classified. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) instrument yields almost four times better performance at only one-fourth the cost and weight of the Landsat ETM+. Finally the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array/Atmospheric Corrector (LEISA/AC) is an infrared camera, which can be used to remove the effects of the atmosphere from surface pictures obtained by instruments such as the ALI on EO-1 and Landsat. This instrument will provide scientific return both in terms of improved imagery and hyperspectral sensing capabilities. It will also test a number of new technologies. Because the AC is small and adaptable to different spacecraft configurations, it is a bolt-on instrument, which can be attached to any future Earth imaging spacecraft. The three advanced imaging instruments will lead to a new generation of lighter weight, higher performance and lower cost Landsat-type Earth surface imaging instruments. Key EO-1 Facts: Orbit Type: Sun-synchronous Equatorial Crossing: 10:01 a.m. Altitude: 705 km Inclination: 98.2° Period: 98.8 minutes Repeat Cycle: 16 days Dimensions: 2 m height × 2.5 m diameter Mass: 529 kg Power: 300 W Design Life: 18 months; EO-1 is well beyond its planned mission life and is still functioning Downlink: X-Band (105 Mbps), Sioux Falls, Svalbard, Alaska, Hobart (Australia) Note: Part of the Morning Constellation of satellites, lags one minute behind Landsat 7 Contributors ALI: MIT/Lincoln Laboratory, NASA GSFC Hyperion: TRW, NASA GSFC LAC: NASA GSFC Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate (AETD)
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Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: EO-1 Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Short_Name: EO-1 Long_Name: Earth Observing 1 End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: New Millennium Program Earth Observing-1 (NMP EO-1) End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: LAC Short_Name: ALI Short_Name: HYPERION End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Altitude: 705 km Orbit_Inclination: 98.2° Equator_Crossing: 10:01 a.m. Period: 98.8 minutes Repeat_Cycle: 16 days Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-02-06 Online_Resource: http://eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://nasascience.nasa.gov/missions/eo-1 Sample_Image: http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/logs/2000/2000-075a_eo1_image.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2000-11-21 Launch_Site: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California Design_Life: 18 months Primary_Sponsor: NASA End_Group End_Group
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