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Atlas IIAS
Launched 1999-12-18 18:57:39 UTCSpace Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Success
Reached Polar Orbit
Worldwide
73rd
orbital launch attempt in 1999
Lockheed Martin
8th
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 3E
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
4600 d 3 h
since the pad's previous launch
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.
Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024.
Launches
80
Successful
77
96%
Upcoming
0
scheduled
Height
47.5m
Diameter
3m
To low Earth orbit
6,580kg
Liftoff thrust
4,391kN
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