Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite ( ERBS ) was built by NASA research satellite, which was launched on 5 October 1984 in order to measure the radiation intensity of the earth and the amount of stratospheric aerosol gas.

Mission History

The satellite was launched on the Space Shuttle Challenger in the Low Earth Orbit and stationed by the astronaut Sally Ride during the mission STS -41 -G. The satellite had first planned a lifetime of two years. But He sent yet after more than two decades, data on the ozone layer. Finally, the project for financial reasons was terminated on 14 October 2005, so ERBS was one of the longest space missions of all time.

Conducted experiments

ERBS was one of three satellites in Earth Radiation Budget Experiment and housed two instruments: the ERBE scanner, three detectors which measured the long-wave radiation, short-wave radiation and the full energy of the radiation from the earth, and the ERBE non- scanner, 5 detectors that measure the whole energy of the sun and the shortwave and the total energy of the whole earth, and under the area of the satellite. In addition, the Stratospheric Aerosol ERBS transported and Gas Experiment ( SAGE II).

Influence in the Montreal Protocol

The ERBS data on the ozone layer were instrumental, the ban on the international community decision under the Montreal Protocol, emissions of CFCs in the industrialized countries.

Other satellites in the ERBE project

A second ERBE experiment was started with the NOAA -9 satellite in January 1985 and a third experiment with the NOAA -10 satellite in October 1986.

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