OSTA-1 - Shuttle's first scientific and applications payload

The Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications' OSTA-1 scientific and applications payload will be carried by the second Space Shuttle flight and be concerned primarily with the remote sensing of land resources, atmospheric phenomena and ocean conditions. Incorporated by the OSTA-1 payload are the Shuttle Multispectral IR Radiometer, the Feature Identification and Location Experiment, the Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites experiment, the Ocean Color Experiment, the Night/Day Optical Survey of Lightning, and the Heflex Bioengineering Test.