Atlas IIAS carried NASA's Terra (EOS AM-1) flagship Earth Observing System satellite from Vandenberg into a sun-synchronous polar orbit. Terra carries five instruments, ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT, for long-term climate and land observation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.2 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 1999, 18:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-068
- Launches in 1999
- 73rd of 78
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