Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
07:48:00
Tuesday July 2, 1996
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.
Polar Orbit
1 Payload
295 kilograms
Agency
NorthropPrice
$40.00 million
Rocket
Height: 17.6m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 443 kg
Liftoff Thrust
561 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 1.15m
Height: 2.13m
Stages
4
12th
Mission
3rd
Mission of 1996
41st
Orbital launch attempt