NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

TOMS

Launch Time
Tue Jul 02, 1996 07:48 UTC

Rocket

Pegasus XL
Northrop
Status: Active
Price: $40.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 561 kN
Payload to LEO: 443 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 17.6 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.15 m
Fairing Height: 2.13 m

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