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The Viking Project
Author(s) -
Hultqvist Bengt
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/gl014i004p00379
Subject(s) - payload (computing) , spacecraft , perspective (graphical) , computer science , satellite , systems engineering , orbit (dynamics) , meteorology , environmental science , aerospace engineering , physics , engineering , computer security , artificial intelligence , network packet
The Viking project is presented and put into a wider scientific perspective. The spacecraft, its orbit and the payload are briefly discussed and related to earlier projects. Some new operational characteristics are described, including the real time data analysis during "campaigns" at Kiruna, the close cooperation between experimenters and satellite operators, the quick delivery of experimenters' data tapes and the fast distribution of quick‐look plots (QLPs). Finally a short list of physics highlights from the early analysis of Viking data is presented.