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MSX
Delta II · Government/Top Secret
1996Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg
Mission
MSX (Midcourse Space Experiment) demonstrated different multispectral imaging technologies to identify and track ballistic missiles during flight by observing rocket launches and orbital debris. Additionally it measured the composition and dynamics of the Earth's atmosphere by observing ozone, chloroflourocarbons, carbon dioxide and methane.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Delta II
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 2W
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2