Atlas IIAS | Terra

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: Lockheed Martin (Commercial)
• Rocket: Atlas IIAS — Atlas family

Mission

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.

• Type: Earth Science
• Orbit: Polar Orbit (PO)

Launch Site

• Pad: Space Launch Complex 3E
• Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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Program

• NASA Large Strategic Science Missions — NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist within all four divisions of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD): the astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science divisions. (Wikipedia)