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- The Coriolis satellite is a Naval Research Laboratory and Air Force Research Laboratory earth and space observation satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on 2003-01-06 at 14:19 GMT. Instruments: Windsat: WINDSAT is a joint Integrated Program Office/Department of Defense demonstration project, intended to measure ocean surface wind speed and wind direction from space using a polarimetric radiometer. Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI: The Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) is an instrument intended to detect disturbances in the solar wind by means of imaging scattered light from the free electrons in the plasma of the solar wind. To do this three CCD cameras observe sections of the sky of size 60 by 3 degree. As the SMEI instrument observers the whole sky, data generated has been used to observe periodic changes in the brightness of stars. This data be used to detect asteroseismological oscillation in giant stars, and for the detection of large eclipsing extra-solar planets. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: Coriolis Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites Short_Name: Coriolis End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: WINDSAT End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Inclination: 98.7 Period: 101.6 Perigee: 842 Apogee: 822 Orbit_Type: LEO > LOW EARTH ORBIT > POLAR SUN-SYNCHRONOUS End_Group Creation_Date: 2013-01-09 Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2003-01-06 Launch_Site: VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, USA Primary_Sponsor: Naval Research Laboratory Primary_Sponsor: Air Force Research Laboratory End_Group End_Group
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