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MOMS-02

Spacelab D2 (STS-55) carried Germany's Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Stereo Scanner (MOMS-02), an advancement of the MOMS-01 flown on STS-7 and STS-11. MOMS-02 is a 7-channel, high resolution imaging system with four multispectral channels (0.4490.511, 0.532-0.576, 0.645-0.677, and 0.7720.815 µm) with 13.5 m resolution (Figure 4.67). The 1993 mission was highly successful, producing over 1,300 scenes. MOMS-02 will next be flown on the Russian Priroda module to be attached to the Mir space station as early as 1995 (References 560-563).

560. Experiments in Space. The Second German Spaclab Mission D-2, DLR, Cologne-Porz, March 1992.

561. MOMS-02, brochure distributed by DARA, DLR, Deutsche Aerospace, AGE, and IFP, 1994.

562. GEO-Information-Systems, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1993, pp. 1-30.

563. MOMS-02-D2 Data Catalogue, DARA, July 1994.

Sources and Resources

• Adapted from: Europe and Asia in Space 1993-1994, Nicholas Johnson and David Rodvold [Kaman Sciences / Air Force Phillips Laboratory]

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