2000 · Orbital Sciences Corporation
MTI
successTaurus 1110 | MTI
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.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 12, 2000 at 09:29 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 576E
- Mission
- MTI
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Polar Orbit