Seasat Antenna Folded, 1979 [photograph].

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Seasat Antenna Folded, 1979 [photograph].

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SeaSat SAR Antenna, 12 March 1979 [Description from photo index.]. The image above shows Seasat's Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) antenna being unfolded from launch configuration to its full size of 7 x 35 feet. Seasat was launched on June 27, 1978 using an Atlas-Agena rocket. The JPL-managed mission pioneered satellite oceanography, being the first satellite designed to use SAR and four other instruments for remote sensing of Earth's oceans. For over three months, until its power system failed, Seasat observed sea-surface winds and temperatures, wave heights, internal waves, atmospheric water, sea ice features and ocean topography.

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