NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

SCD-1

Launch Time
Tue Feb 09, 1993 14:30 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus
Northrop
Status: Retired
Price: $40.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 487 kN
Payload to LEO: 375 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 16.9 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.15 m
Fairing Height: 2.13 m

Mission Details

SCD-1 (Satélite de Coleta de Dados)

SCD-1 is an experimental communication satellite with an environmental mission. It receives data collected on the ground or at sea by hundreds of automatic data-collecting platforms (DCPs) and retransmits all the information in a combined real-time signal back to tracking stations on Earth. Applications include hydrology, meteorology, and monitoring of the environment in general. The data are used by agencies such as the Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies Center (Centro de Previsão do Tempo e Estudos Climáticos—CPTEC), hydroelectric power managers, and both private and governmental institutions with many different interests.

Payloads: 1
Low Earth Orbit

Location

NB-52B Carrier, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

1993

9th orbital launch attempt

Pegasus

3rd mission
1st mission of 1993
2nd successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission