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A large satellite to be used to measure soil moisture. One means of construction would have been to use beam building equipment (See Post 27 - 28 in this thread).
The Microwave Radiometer Spacecraft: A Design Study
A large passive microwave radiometer spacecraft with near all-weather capability of monitoring soil moisture for global crop forecasting has been designed. The design, emphasizing large space structures technology, characterized the mission hardware at the conceptual level in sufficient detail to identify enabling and pacing technologies.
The study concentrated on those research areas requiring the most intense attention: mission and spacecraft requirements, design and structural concepts, electromagnetic concepts, and control concepts.
The results of the study in these research areas are presented in 14 papers authored by members of the design study team. Drawings of the baseline spacecraft design are included in an appendix.
The Microwave Radiometer Spacecraft: A Design Study
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