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Appendix A: Statement of Task
Pages 67-68

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... This configuration also offered the advantage of multiple Earth sensors simultaneously observing some atmospheric and surface parameters. It is time to reassess whether earlier assumptions and technical approaches should now be changed due to new technology and the changed environment.
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... 4. Have new payload technologies emerged that can reduce cost, payload mass, power requirements, other interface needs-~(views of cold space for radiative cooling, views of celestial objects for calibration, thermal dissipation, etc.)
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  • technologies emerged
  • payload mass
  • environmental satellites
  • operational environmental
  • defense activities

  • lower costs
  • earlier restructurings
  • launch vehicles
  • celestial objects
  • surface parameters

  • reduce cost
  • enable constellations
  • ground data
  • produced calls
  • earth sensors

  • called earth
  • geostationary operational
  • radiative cooling
  • advances offer
  • enhance payload

  • vehicle costs
  • offer lower
  • serious limit
  • parsing sensor
  • power requirements

  • mission costs
  • available launch
  • data processing
  • strategic defense
  • earth observation


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