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The preceding pages have taken the reader from TIROS-I in 1960 to NOAA-K, L, and M and GOES-I to M in the 1990s. As of early 1989, NOAA plans to continue with the NOAA-K, L, M series and even extend it to include NOAA-N. The successive polar orbitor satellite series, NOAA-O, P, and Q, will be a free-flying afternoon series compatible with the forthcoming polar orbiting platforms. The NOAA O, P, Q series and the platforms are expected to include all or some of the new instruments described in this chapter. The Space Station/Polar Orbiting Platform Program is intended to serve the world as a source of satellite-sensed data for decades.
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Rao, P.K., Holmes, S.J., Anderson, R.K., Winston, J.S., Lehr, P.E. (1990). The Polar Orbiting Platform Era. In: Rao, P.K., Holmes, S.J., Anderson, R.K., Winston, J.S., Lehr, P.E. (eds) Weather Satellites: Systems, Data, and Environmental Applications. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-944970-16-1_41
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