The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite was launched in 1984 and investigated how energy from the sun is absorbed and then reflected back by Earth.
When the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite was launched in 1984 on Space Shuttle Challenger, it carried the first instruments for the Langley-managed three-satellite Earth Radiation Budget Experiment, or ERBE, designed to investigate how energy from the sun is absorbed and then reflected back by the Earth.
It also carried Langley’s Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II instrument.
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