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MTI

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Launch 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.