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Scientific satellites

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• Artificial satellites
• Observatories

• LDEF (Artificial satellite)
• Landsat satellites
• Orbiting astronomical observatories

• Artificial satellites -- Scientific applications

• Engineering and the Advancement of Human Welfare: 10 Outstanding Achievements, 1964-1989, by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF): Mission 1 Experiments, ed. by Lenwood G. Clark, William H. Kinar, David J. Carter, and James L. Jones (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• The Landsat Tutorial Workbook: Basics of Satellite Remote Sensing (Washington: NASA, 1982), by Nicholas M. Short (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Star Splitters: The High Energy Astronomy Observatories, by Wallace H. Tucker (illustrated HTML at NASA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Corona: America's First Satellite Program (1995), by United States Central Intelligence Agency, ed. by Kevin Conley Ruffner (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Space Resources and Space Settlements (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1979), ed. by John Billingham, William Gilbreath, and Brian O'Leary, contrib. by Gerard K. O'Neill (illustrated HTML with commentary at nss.org)

• Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Human Factors in Automated and Robotic Space Systems, ed. by Thomas B. Sheridan, Dana S. Kruser, and Stanley Deutsch (page images with commentary at NAP)

• New Moons: Towing Asteroids into Earth Orbits for Exploration and Exploitation: Transcripts of the Presentations at the Special Session of the Eighth Lunar Science Conference, 16 March 1977, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas (Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1977), ed. by David R. Criswell (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Remote Sensing and the Private Sector: Issues for Discussion (OTA-TM-ISC-20; 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Civilian Space Stations and the U.S. Future in Space (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Launch Options for the Future: A Buyer's Guide (OTA-ISC-383; Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)
• Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program (1995), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base (OTA-BP-ISS-161; Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Reducing Launch Operation Costs: New Technologies and Practices (OTA-TM-ISC-28; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Affordable Spacecraft: Design and Launch Alternatives (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The National Space Transportation Policy: Issues for Congress (OTA-ISS-620; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Big Dumb Boosters: A Low-Cost Space Transportation Option? (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles, by Roger E. Bilstein (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Guide to Lunar Orbiter Photographs (1970), by Thomas P. Hansen (PDF at usra.edu)
• Unmanned Space Project Management: Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter, by Erasmus H. Kloman (multiple formats at NASA)
• Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon, by David E. Bowker and J. Kenrick Hughes, ed. by Jeffrey J. Gillis (Javascript-dependent multimedia at usra.edu)

• Lunar Impact: A History of Project Ranger, by R. Cargill Hall (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position (NASA Technical Note D-233; 1960), by T. H. Skopinski and Katherine G. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneer Odyssey (revised edition, 1977), by Richard O. Fimmel, William Swindell, and Eric Burgess (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Spacelab, An International Short-Stay Orbiting Laboratory (1983), by Walter Froelich (illustrated HTML at NASA)
• The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor, by Hermann Noordung (PDF at NASA)

• Space Station 1 (New York: Ace Books, c1957), by Frank Belknap Long (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Space Tug (New York: Pocket Books, c1953), by Murray Leinster
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Space Platform (New York: Pocket Books, c1953), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Halo, by Tom Maddox (HTML at dthomasmaddox.com)

• Protecting the Space Station From Meteoroids and Orbital Debris (1997), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Engineering Research and Technology Development on the Space Station (1996), by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Confronting Space Debris: Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon (c2010), by Dave Baiocchi and William Welser (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Moon Miner's Manifesto (partial serial archives)

• The Lower Tiers of the Space Transportation Industrial Base (OTA-BP-ISS-161; Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Commercial Lunar Propellant Architecture: A Collaborative Study of Lunar Propellant Production (ca .2018), ed. by David A. Kornuta (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)

• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Toward a New National Weather Service: Assessment of NEXRAD Coverage and Associated Weather Services (1995), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Power Sources for Remote Arctic Applications (OTA-BP-ETI 129; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files (with some bad OCR) at Princeton)

• Seismic and Atmospheric Exploration of Venus (SAEVe) Final Report (2018), by Tibor Kremic, Richard Ghail, Martha Gilmore, G. W. Hunter, Walter S. Kiefer, Sanjay Limaye, Michael Pauken, and Colin F. Wilson (PDF at USRA Houston Repository)