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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Ground measurements connected through space
Follow Brazil’s SCD program from river and weather stations through radio contact, data quality and decades of changing spacecraft capability.
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SCD-1 in an INPE preparation facility in the 1990s. The octagonal spacecraft and its solar-cell-covered surfaces are visible above a handling fixture. The photograph does not show the separate environmental stations that supplied its data.
INPE · Image source · INPE attribution permissionYour place in the bigger picture
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From reflected radio signals to coordinated global networks
SCD: Brazil’s environmental data relays
Ground measurements connected through space
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