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Oceanography from a specially designed space vehicle was born at 0112 (GMT) June 27, 1978, when SEASAT-A was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. This satellite, which contained an impressive array of instruments, performed brilliantly until its premature death due to a massive short circuit on 0200 (GMT) October 10, 1978. In its 105th day at the time of failure, SEASAT instruments, which were designed specifically to give measurements of surface winds, sea-surface topography, sea roughness, and temperature, had gathered approximately 99 days of data and relayed the data to earth.
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Whitehead, J.A. (1983). Remote Sensing of the Oceans from Space. In: Brewer, P.G. (eds) Oceanography. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5440-9_16
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