I. THE DMSP SATELLITE
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The DMSP provides environmental data too both DoD and civilian organizations
world wide. The satellites are launched into nearly polar, sun- synchronous
orbits and phased so that they pass over a given point on the earth at
the same local time each day. See Figure 1 for an example of a DMSP spacecraft.
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Figure 1
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