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SE1Seasat  

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  • Launched in 1978, SeaSat was a NASA/JPL Earth Observation experimental mission, which had onboard the first ever spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system for science applications. During its brief 106-day lifetime, SeaSat collected more information about the oceans than had been acquired in the previous 100 years of shipboard research.

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  • SEASAT 1

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  • 1

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  • SE1

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https://earth.esa.int/concept/0552b02f-9c86-56e0-9800-7372890f00a8

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