Status
Success
TOMS
Launch Time
Tue Jul 02, 1996 07:48 UTC
Tue Jul 02, 1996 07:48 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
TOMS
The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) is a NASA satellite instrument for measuring ozone values. Of the five TOMS instruments which were built, four entered successful orbit. Nimbus-7 and Meteor-3-5 provided global measurements of total column ozone on a daily basis and together provided a complete data set of daily ozone from November 1978 to December 1994.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 295.0 kg
Polar Orbit
Location
Stargazer, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA
Stats
1996
41st orbital launch attempt
Pegasus
12th mission
3rd mission of 1996
8th successful mission
3rd consecutive successful mission