launched fromUSA

Aqua

Success
MAY 04200209:54:00 UTC

Aqua was a major NASA Earth-observing satellite focused on the water cycle, carrying instruments to measure precipitation, evaporation, clouds, and sea-surface temperature. It became the lead spacecraft of the "A-train," a string of satellites in the same Sun-synchronous orbit making coordinated atmospheric measurements, and operated far beyond its planned life.

launched fromSLC-2WVandenberg

aboardDelta II 7920-10LD-291intoSSO

Payload

Aqua

Environmental research

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