The Cosmos 1500 spacecraft was a precursor to the operational Russian Okean ("Ocean") series of oceanographic remote sensing missions. The Cosmos 1500 tested a new sensors and methods of data collection and processing. Cosmos 1500 had the capability of overlapping and processing images from its sensors. Data from Cosmos 1500 were sent directly to ships or automated data receiving stations and was applied in navigation in northern oceans. The instrument complement was highlighted by an all-weather Side-Looking Real Aperature radar (SLRAR) operating at 9.5 GHz. other instruments included a multispectral scanner (MSL), a scanning high-frequency radiometer (SHF), and transponders for collecting data from ice and buoy transmitters.
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