1999 · Lockheed Martin
Terra
successAtlas IIAS | Terra
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.
Overview
- Date / time
- December 18, 1999 at 06:57 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E
- Mission
- Terra
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Polar Orbit