ASDAR (aircraft to satellite data relay) flight test report
E. J. Domino, R. R. Lovell, Mike Conroy, D. H. Culp · NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N · 1977
The aircraft to Satellite Data Relay (ASDAR), an airborne data collection system that gathers meteorological data from existing aircraft instrumentation and relays it to ground user via a geo-synchronous meteorological satellite, is described and the results of the first test flight on a commercial Boeing 747 aircraft are presented. The flight test was successful and verified system performance in the anticipated environment.