OGO

American  

U.S. Aerospace.

1. Orbiting Geophysical Observatory: one of a series of scientific satellites that studied sun-earth relationships and the earth's atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere.

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Example Sentences

An OGO can send back twelve hours of stored information from 20 simultaneously operating instruments in only three minutes.

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Designed and built by TRW systems, each OGO is a refrigerator-size box with 14 simultaneously operating instruments pointing in five directions.

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Last week the fourth OGO satellite, launched from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 28, was buzzing along in polar orbit without a hitch.

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Each OGO has two $300,000 tape recorders that store 86 million bits of information, transmit 64,000 bits a second.

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One face al ways points toward earth, another toward the sun, another away from the earth, one away from the sun, and a fifth in the direction the OGO travels.

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