SEASAT

Who is this??? Put your name down so I can grade!! ! SEASAT SEASAT was launched on June 26, 1978 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. [1] Seasat was the first Earth-orbiting satellite designed for remote sensing of the Earth's oceans and had onboard the first spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). Seasat was managed by JPL and was launched on June 28, 1978 into a nearly circular 800 km orbit with an inclination of 108 degrees. Fourteen Earth orbits were completed each day. [2] The satellite orbited the Earth 14 times daily and covered 95 percent of the world's oceans every 36 hours. [1]      1. http://nsidc.org/data/docs/daac/seasat_platform.gd.html 2. http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/scienceapps/seasat.html