Status
Success
RADARSAT-1 & SURFSAT
Launch Time
Sat Nov 04, 1995 14:22 UTC
Sat Nov 04, 1995 14:22 UTC
First Delta II launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Rocket
Mission Details
RADARSAT-1
RADARSAT-1 is Canada's first commercial Earth observation satellite. It utilized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to obtain images of the Earth's surface to manage natural resources and monitor global climate change.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 2,750.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
SURFSAT-1
Surfsat 1 (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Satellite 1), a student-built satellite, consists of two aluminum rectangles each about the size of a bread box. The JPL spacecraft, funded by NASA at a cost of $3M, was successfully launched 4 November 1995 on a Delta-7920-10 launch vehicle. Surfsat-1 went as a secondary payload on the Canadian Radarsat 1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 55.0 kg
Near Polar Earth Orbit
Location
SLC-2W, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Stats
1995
65th orbital launch attempt
Delta II
43rd mission
2nd mission of 1995
42nd successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission