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Pages: 150
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-26 - Publisher: National Academies Press
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Language: en
Pages: 187
Pages: 187
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-21 - Publisher: National Academies Press
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Language: en
Pages: 51
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Environmental Satellites: Strategy Needed to Sustain Critical Climate and Space Weather Measurements
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11 - Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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Language: en
Pages: 85
Pages: 85
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-19 - Publisher: National Academies Press
In 2000, the nation's next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites
Language: en
Pages: 190
Pages: 190
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-25 - Publisher: National Academies Press
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