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OAS platform Detail for GEOSAT, meta_version: 1. Current meta_version is: 3
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platforms_id: 3919
Title:
Name: GEOSAT SATELLITE
ICES Code: 3290
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Comments: US Navy GEOdetic SATellite launched 12 March 1985 carrying a radar altimeter. Classified geodetic mission concluded 30 September 1986. GEOSAT orbit adjusted to a 244 pass repeat orbit (repeat same ground track every 17.05 days) for the unclassified Exact Repeat Mission, which ran from 8 Nov 1986 to 30 Jan 1990.

Additional information available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosat.
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Metadata version: 1
Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2010-10-28 14:02:05+00