Aqua

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 4 May 2002, 09:54 am UTC

Rocket: Delta II (Delta)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

The focus for the Aqua (formerly EOS PM) satellite is the multidisciplinary study of the Earth's interrelated processes (atmosphere, oceans, and land-surface) and their relationship to Earth system changes.