LaunchesQuikScat
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QuikScat
Titan II SLV · Earth Science
1999Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg
Mission
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Titan II SLV
- Orbit
- PO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 4W
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2