Status
Success
ICESat / CHIPSat
Launch Time
Mon Jan 13, 2003 00:45 UTC
Mon Jan 13, 2003 00:45 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
ICESat
ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite) is a satellite mission for measuring ice sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 970.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
CHIPSat
CHIPSat for (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite) is a microsat whose primary objective of the science team, led by Principal Investigator Mark Hurwitz, is to study the million-degree gas in the local interstellar medium. CHIPSat is designed to capture the first spectra of the faint, extreme ultraviolet glow that is expected to be emitted by the hot interstellar gas within about 300 light-years of the Sun, a region often referred to as the Local Bubble
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 64.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Location
SLC-2W, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Stats
2003
2nd orbital launch attempt
Delta II
104th mission
1st mission of 2003
102nd successful mission
49th consecutive successful mission