Terra

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 18 Dec 1999, 06:57 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas IIAS (Atlas)

Provider: Lockheed Martin

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Polar Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

The Terra (formally known as EOS-AM-1) satellite is the flagship of EOS. It provides global data on the state of the atmosphere, land, and oceans, as well as their interactions with solar radiation and with one another.