Overview
- Shows how NASA established and sustained a mission to study sea-level rise, a serious impact of climate change
- Examines the origins of NASA’s interest in the oceans in the 1960s and first true ocean satellite Seasat, in 1978
- Describes all aspects of creating that satellite, from how it was built to the people who worked on it
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts. Building it was a struggle every step of the way. It was the most vivid and potentially consequential program within NASA’s larger Earth Science directorate. How did it happen? Who did what? Why? This book seeks to answer such questions. It goes back to the origins of NASA’s interest in the oceans in the 1960s and first true ocean satellite, Seasat, in 1978. After three months of operation, Seasat failed. But before it did, it showed how much satellites could tell about the ocean’s dynamics. In many ways, sea-level rise is the clearest and most understandable result of a warming planet.
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W. Henry Lambright is Professor of Public Administration, International Affairs, and Political Science at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: NASA and the Politics of Climate Research
Book Subtitle: Satellites and Rising Seas
Authors: W. Henry Lambright
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40363-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40362-0Published: 10 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40365-1Published: 11 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40363-7Published: 09 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 155
Topics: History of Science, History of Technology, Science and Technology Studies, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology