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SAC-C Project

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spase://SMWG/Observatory/SAC-C

Description

SAC-C is an International (Argentina plus USA, France, Italy, Denmark, and Brazil) satellite that was launched by a Delta 2 rocket at 13:24 UT from Vandenberg AFB. Its mission is to remotely-sense vegetation, wetlands, and ecosystem in four wavelength bands covering 0.4-1.75 microns, with a spatial resolution of 1 km. The orbital planes of SAC-C, EO 1, Landsat 7 (1999-020A), and Terra (1999-068A) are closely coplanar, with a given site being successively visited by each spacecraft within an hour of each other. SAC-C's periapsis is 682 km, its apoapsis is 701 km, it's orbital period is about 99 min, and the inclination of the orbit is 98.2 degrees. Also on-board, that is relevant to the VMO, is a helium magnetometer.

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Observatory

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Observatory/SAC-C
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
SAC-C Project
AlternateName
Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas-C
AlternateName
Scientific Application Satellite-C
AlternateName
Oersted-2
AlternateName
NSSDC ID: 2000-075B
ReleaseDate
2019-05-05 12:34:56Z
Description

SAC-C is an International (Argentina plus USA, France, Italy, Denmark, and Brazil) satellite that was launched by a Delta 2 rocket at 13:24 UT from Vandenberg AFB. Its mission is to remotely-sense vegetation, wetlands, and ecosystem in four wavelength bands covering 0.4-1.75 microns, with a spatial resolution of 1 km. The orbital planes of SAC-C, EO 1, Landsat 7 (1999-020A), and Terra (1999-068A) are closely coplanar, with a given site being successively visited by each spacecraft within an hour of each other. SAC-C's periapsis is 682 km, its apoapsis is 701 km, it's orbital period is about 99 min, and the inclination of the orbit is 98.2 degrees. Also on-board, that is relevant to the VMO, is a helium magnetometer.

Acknowledgement
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States); Danish Space Research Institute (Denmark); National Commission of Space Activities (CONAE) (Argentina); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil (Brazil); Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italy);
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.ProjectScientistspase://SMWG/Person/UNKNOWN
InformationURL
Name
NSSDC's Master Catalog
URL
Description

Information about the SAC-C mission

Language
EN
InformationURL
Name
The SAC-C Project
URL
Description

Information about the SAC-C project

Language
EN
Location
ObservatoryRegion
Earth.NearSurface
OperatingSpan
StartDate
2001-02-01 00:00:00
StopDate
2013-08-13 23:59:59