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NASA Launches Terra Satellite

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-new-satellites dept.

adenied wrote to let us know that on Dec 16, NASA successfully launched the Terra Earth Observing System (EOS). This particular satellite is the going to be the flagship of the new EOS system. With this, and other satellites doing similar work, NASA will continue to study the Earth, which has been some of their best work recently.Update: 12/20 08:18 by H :Thanks to Dennis Gerasimov of NASA for clearing up some of the details - click below to learn more.

I would like to point out a mistake in article http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/18/2340212.shtml about Terra satellite. Terra is not a flagship of EOS program. Terra is the first mission that will be fully integrated into EOS program. The flagship satellite TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) was launched by NASA together with NASDA (Japan) on November 27, 1997. The satellite is still operational and collects data. More info can be found at http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov and the resulting data is located at TSDIS project (the ground data processing system for TRMM) at http://tsdis.gsfc.nasa.gov.

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  1. Useful information about Terra and EOS by Money__ · · Score: 4

    ...Terra, the EOS flag ship, is detailed very well on Nasa site. It goes up today on a Atlas rocket, and they have some VRML models of the spacecraft. The instrument array on board(~130k) is very impressive, not to mention the earth images page tht will soon be displaying the result of the mission.
    I hope you all find this information informative and useful.

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