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MTI
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 12 Mar 2000, 09:29 am UTC
Rocket: Minotaur-C 1110 (Minotaur)
Provider: Orbital Sciences Corporation
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Polar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 576E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
The primary objective of MTI (Multispectral Thermal Imager) was to demonstrate advanced multispectral and thermal imaging, image processing, and associated technologies that could be used in future systems for detecting and characterizing facilities producing weapons of mass destruction using radiometrically accurate, high spatial resolution, multispectral imaging.