United States Air Force

QuikScat

Titan II SLV

SUCCESS
Success

Sunday, June 20, 1999 · 02:15 UTC

Mission

/01

The SeaWinds instrument on the QuikScat (Quick Scatterometer) mission is a "quick recovery" mission to fill the gap created by the loss of data from the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), when the ADEOS 1 host satellite lost power in June 1997. The SeaWinds instrument is a specialized microwave radar that measures near-surface wind speed and direction under all weather and cloud conditions over the Earth's oceans.

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Polar Orbit (PO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Titan II SLV

Variant: 23G

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 4W

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

34.633° N, 120.616° W

88

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593

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1013

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35

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